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 · Light lunch served
12:45 PM · Welcome
1:00 PM · Incubation and what's being built now · Ryan Rubio, Zero Labs
1:45 PM · Late-stage secondaries and the pre-IPO landscape · Jim Brailean, Co-Founder, Karmel Capital
2:30 PM · Las Vegas as the working case · local tech and civic voices, speakers to be announced
3:00 PM · Open Q&A

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