Clean Energy Deep Tech Across Borders: Europe Meets the Bay Area

​Speed Mentoring at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator April 20, 2026 · 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM · Berkeley, CA

​This is a curated speed mentoring session for practitioners who've done it: raised hardware capital, navigated IP strategy, or cracked U.S. market entry in energy, grid tech, or industrial decarbonization. You'll read a one-page founder brief before you arrive. The 20-minute sessions are working time from minute one.

​What you're walking into: Founders are pre-selected. Track assignments are made in advance. The closing synthesis — where mentors name the patterns they observed — feeds directly into a public panel discussion in San Francisco the following day.

​Agenda

• ​10:00 — Arrival & brief review

• ​10:20 — Framing (5 min)

• ​10:30 — Speed mentoring, two parallel tracks (Speed mentoring — two parallel tracks

  • ​Each founder rotates through 2 mentor sessions of 20 minutes, with a 2-minute buffer between rotations. Mentors stay in their track; founders rotate.

• ​11:30 — Closing synthesis

​Best fit if you have experience in:

• ​IP positioning and defensibility

• ​Capital stack strategy post-EU/Canadian public funding

• ​U.S. customer discovery and go-to-market for hardware companies

• ​Energy storage, grid hardware, industrial decarbonization, or circular economy

​Berkeley Gateway Accelerator is the only Bay Area program purpose-built for international deep tech founders entering the U.S. market. Day 1 is where the real work happens.