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Build your network and access to Europe’s top founders and funders

  • Always by invitation

  • 10x your network in the Nordics of Founders from Stealth - Series A & Investors VCs, CVC, Angels & Family offices

​Website: https://www.mashup.day/

​It’s an invite-only capped at 500 people, with a vetted group and a small, curated crowd, so you’ll meet great, relevant founders and investors a couple of times per year at dinners, side events at big tech events, or just at a karaoke club.

​What to expect at the Mashup Main event

Day 1 - 15th of April

09:30 - 15:00 Robotics & Physical AI

15:30 - 21:00 Founders Day to bond with 250+ like-minded VC-backed and soon-to-be VC-backed founders are attending. Dinner, drinks, and talks among founders only.

  • 15:30 - 18:30 Roundtables, network, mingle, side events

  • 18:30 - 21:00 Founders Dinner

  • 21:00 - Late Mix & mingle

15:30 - 21:00 Investor Meetup - meet 250+ peers over boule pétanque, food, drinks, and discussions to deepen your Nordic network.

  • 15:30 - 18:00 Boule, mingle, networking

  • 18:00 - 21:00 Investor dinner 

  • 18:00 - 20:30 GP Dinner

  • 21:00 - Late Mix & mingle

Day 2 - 16th of April

Founders and investors Mashup. We share detailed info about all attending startups and investors joining ahead of the event so you can source the most relevant deals. We spend the day building relationships, meetings, and end the day with dinner and Karaoke.

07:30 - 09:00 Sauna and cold plunge

09:30 - 09:35 Welcome

09:35 - 10:00 Startup pitches

10:00 - 10:30 Founder panel

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:25 Startup pitches

11:25 - 11:50 Investor panel

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 16:00 Roundtables

16:15 - 16:20 Closing words

16:00 - 18:00 Afterwork drinks

18:00 - Late Mashup Housewarming & After Party

​PS. We have 150 hotel rooms at Clarion Malmö live with discounted prices for our guests. You receive an email after check-out with a link to book the hotel.

Confirmed Roundtables

Day 1 - Robotics & Physical AI 

The $5T Bet: The Real State of Humanoids, Hype or Paradigm Shift - Mehrdad Farhmini, Merphi

Ocean & Subsea Robotics: The Most De-Risked Physical AI Market Nobody Is Talking About - Taiga Ueta & Jose Havier Poe, Nordic Ninja & Planet Ocean Capital

Physical Prototyping for Social Impact - David Cuartielles, Arduino

Sim-to-Real Transfer & Data capture: The Last Mile Problem - Petri Rajmahle, FOV Ventures

The Dual-Use growth story between Commercial vs. Military - Maria Wasastjerna, Kvanted

The Last Hard Problem in Physical AI. VLA Models: Are We There Yet? - Volker Kreuger, Lund University

Who Owns the Brain? How Foundation Models Are Quietly Kingmaking in Robotics - Fabian Kerj, Qualia

Spatial Intelligence and Robots for Automating Warehouses - Carl Sibersky

Last-Mile Delivery & Logistics Robotics - Marianne Wangen-Eriksen, Sandwater

Day 2 - Mashup Day

Pure Software Plays in Physical AI: Will the brains or the bodies win the race to full autonomy? - Chloe Fu, Sandwater

Should founders cash out? Secondaries in venture deals - incentive or a red flag? - Carolina Thoft, R&D Law

Why do Europe's best founders still choose American capital? - Heidi Lindvall, Pale Blue Dot

Why some of the most technically ambitious applications of AI are being systematically underfunded - Anne-Marie, Unconventional Ventures

How to win enterprise deals with security as a moat? - Jacob Henricson, Nordsnipe

The Big Reframing: A Narrative Reset in ClimateTech - Moritz Kotter, Extantia

Bridging Startups and Corporates: How to Build Successful Partnerships - Matilda Borg, HM

Are non-AI-native startups already dead? - Ilya Malkin, Sort A Brick

The Founder Mindset for Building Ambitious Companies - Kasper Juul, Kin AI

The Nordic Right to Win: What’s Our Unfair Advantage? - Sherington, Atomico

Too Early, Too Hard, Too Weird - Let's Ditch the Labels and Build a New Playbook - Mala Valroy, Thursday Ventures

Location
Clarion Hotel Malmö Live
Dag Hammarskjölds torg 2, 211 18 Malmö, Sweden
Dag Hammarskjölds torg 2, 211 18 Malmö, Sweden
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