Karmel Capital x Zero Labs: Seed to Scale in the AI Era

​Karmel Capital x Zero Labs: Seed to Scale in the AI Era

Karmel Capital and Zero Labs are bringing together founders, investors, and operators for an afternoon session at Zero Labs.

The conversation: investment mandates are moving earlier. As AI reshapes how companies scale, securing footholds before late-stage valuations become prohibitive is the new discipline. Ryan Rubio (Zero Labs) opens with a look at what's being built here in Las Vegas, and Jim Brailean (Co-Founder, Karmel Capital) goes deep on secondaries and the late-stage pre-IPO landscape, with founders from affiliated startups in the room to make it concrete.

​12:00 PM · Lunch and networking

​12:45 PM · Zero Labs and the early stage: what we're seeing as we incubate and accelerate companies · Ryan Rubio, Zero Labs

​1:15 PM · The late-stage pre-IPO secondary market and how investment mandates are changing · Jim Brailean, Co-Founder, Karmel Capital

​2:00 PM · Las Vegas as the working case · companies and guest speakers, to be announced

​2:45 PM · Open Q&A

​Tuesday, October 20 · 12:00 to 3:00 PM · Zero Labs / UNLV Black Fire Innovation, Spring Valley, Las Vegas