Events

Where you build still shapes what you can build. Join Jon Metzler, Berkeley Haas instructor and creator of the Haas course Clusters: Location, Ecosystems, and Opportunity, for a conversation on how ecosystems, talent, and geography drive opportunity for deep tech founders. Invite-only, capped at 20, so there’s real time for questions and 1:1 conversation. Request to join and we’ll confirm your spot.

Spinning tech out of a university lab? Join BGA and Ashurst Perkins Coie for a fireside on navigating university tech licensing, from first OTL conversation to signed license, plus 1:1 office hours with the experts. Sign-up in Luma.

Building in quantum? Come pitch, meet, and connect ⚛️ Join us at BGA for an evening with the Bay Area’s quantum ecosystem: founders, researchers, investors, academics, and industry teams. Selected early-stage startups will take the stage, followed by networking focused on commercialization, research partnerships, and what’s next for quantum. Prizes to be announced! Series A and earlier startups across quantum computing, sensing, comms, photonics, software, enabling tech, and materials are encouraged to apply to pitch.

Getting ready for your first raise? Join Sam Wong, CEO of Fundable Startups, author of 21 Secrets of Successful Startups, and a founder-operator with five acquisitions under his belt. He’ll walk through how a pre-seed round actually works: funding strategy, SAFEs and convertible notes, pitch decks, and investor diligence. Invite-only, capped at 20, so there’s real time for questions and 1:1 conversation. Request to join and we’ll confirm your spot.

AI/ML is reshaping biology and chemistry at a staggering pace. Breakthroughs are overtaken by newer ones almost weekly, and as one barrier falls, the next one appears. Each corner of the field seems to face its own challenges in data, models, and capabilities. But how many of those challenges are actually shared, and what can one sector learn from how another solved them? Join us for a panel discussion, where we're bringing together academic researchers, industry builders, and investors to compare notes on the latest breakthroughs and what made them possible, the bottlenecks standing in the way of the next one, and the lessons that carry across fields.

Running lean? Join Bryce Gilleland, General Partner at Cal Innovation Fund, for a practical session on bringing AI into how your company runs, from automating processes to streamlining day-to-day ops. Bryce spent years in energy at PG&E before moving into venture, and has built AI training material to help others get started. Invite-only, capped at 20, so there’s real time for questions and 1:1 conversation. Request to join and we’ll confirm your spot.

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