Robotics Startup Bootcamp at RoboBusiness

By Mike Oitzman | September 22, 2023

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Beginning a robotics firm, in addition to rising and scaling, has many challenges. These can embody taking a robotic from prototype to manufacturing, elevating funding, navigating authorities laws, reaching their audience, and extra. 

The Robotics Startup Boot Camp at RoboBusiness, which takes place in Santa Clara, CA on October 18-19, will present “ideas of the commerce” and embody discussions across the many widespread challenges that may make or break an organization alongside the best way. Subjects will embody authorized formation, dilutive and non-dilutive investments, IP and patents, path to manufacturing, accounting, when to carry on advertising, gross sales, & HR specialists, and fundraising & exits.

The BootCamp will function 5 audio system that may share their first-hand expertise working with startups:

• Drew Fortin is the Founder and CEO of Lever Expertise. Fortin is a people-first, values-driven chief with over 20 years of development technique and team-building expertise throughout retail, advertising expertise, native media, and HR tech. He’s obsessive about the shift that AI, robotics, and Web3 have on the employer-employee relationship and the nice issues it means for people in the way forward for work. This led him to discovered Lever Expertise – the expertise technique company – which helps 200+ firms run tech-enabled methods to maximise the leverage of their workforce.
• Christie Bluhm is the Audit Principal at Clifton Larson Allen (CLA). Bluhm has greater than 20 years of expertise offering accounting, auditing, tax, and advisory companies to producers, distributors, and expertise firms. She has in depth expertise with assurance engagements—overseeing your entire engagement from planning to fieldwork and reporting. Moreover, she supplies advisory companies to companies and their house owners on monetary evaluation, basic enterprise questions, purchase/promote preparation, and tax planning.
• Aaron Capron is a Accomplice at Finnegan’s Palo Alto workplace. With greater than 18 years of expertise, Capron counsels shoppers of all sizes, starting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, on prosecution, post-grant concerns, portfolio administration, and pre-litigation methods. He has drafted and overseen the drafting of a whole bunch of patent functions for electrical, electronics, telecommunications, and software-based applied sciences.
• Daniel Theobald is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Vecna Robotics. Theobald has many years of expertise main analysis scientists and groups of engineers in creating cutting-edge expertise. He has 67 issued patents and greater than 30 patents pending.   Along with founding Vecna Robotics, Daniel additionally co-founded MassRobotics, a non-profit devoted to the worldwide development of the robotics trade and Twisted Fields, an natural analysis farm devoted to the development of automation in agriculture.
• Joyce Sidopoulos is the Co-Founder and Chief of Operations at MassRobotics, an innovation hub, collective workspace, and laboratory for robotics startups. MassRobotics’ mission is to allow and develop the following technology of robotics firms. In her position, Sidopoulos works on initiatives to develop the breadth and depth of the robotics ecosystem and develops high-impact packages, highlighting startup expertise, matching startups with funders and prospects, partaking with robotics adoption, connecting expertise to employers and dealing with academia to commercialize analysis.

RoboBusiness is the main occasion centered on creating business robots. There will probably be 60-plus audio system, 100-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo flooring, networking receptions, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors and extra. You possibly can try the present record of audio system, to which extra will probably be added.

RoboBusiness will probably be co-located with the Area Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion centered on efficiently creating robots that function in wide-ranging, outside, dynamic environments.

Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier trade occasion for medical expertise professionals, presently in its ninth yr. Each occasions appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical expertise backgrounds.