Industrial Automation Founders & Funders - NY Tech Week Happy Hour
Join Maniv, The Venture Collective, Outsiders Fund, Stifel, and Goodwin for an evening bringing together the founders and funders rebuilding the physical world — from robotics and manufacturing to industrial software, supply chain, semis, energy, and beyond. Expect food, drinks, and a room full of people obsessed with how things get made, moved, powered, and automated.
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This evening is cohosted by:
Maniv is a leading venture investor backing early-stage technology startups building the foundations of the physical economy - transportation, manufacturing, logistics, energy, semiconductors, and more. The firm has built a global portfolio of over 40 companies advancing human prosperity through better Making, Moving, Powering, and Computing. Maniv manages approximately $350M and is supported by top institutional investors and a broad network of strategic partners, including major carmakers, tier-1 suppliers, global fleets, and leaders across energy, infrastructure, insurance, payments, and retail.
The Venture Collective is a high-conviction, early-stage investment firm partnering with founders who are focused on transforming legacy industries. The firm deploys its capital, time, and network behind highly defensible, mission-driven technology and scientific innovations built to solve the world’s biggest problems.
Outsiders Fund is an early stage VC started by Austin McChord (NYSE: MSP; subsequent $6B take private), backing founders with outside perspectives tackling overlooked, niche, or emerging markets.
Huge thank you to our sponsors and partners for making this community event possible:
Goodwin is in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with our clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. Goodwin’s immersive understanding of these industries – combined with expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets them apart.
Stifel is a diversified global wealth management, investment bank, and commercial banking institution with $500B in AUM. Stifel Bank, Member FDIC, provides venture and fund banking solutions to venture capital-backed companies and their investors. Backed by the strength and legacy of Stifel, the Bank delivers tailored banking, treasury management, and lending solutions - working closely with Stifel’s Investment Banking and Wealth Management teams to meet the diverse asset management needs of companies and individuals.