How Deep Tech Startups Build AI Moats — and why investors are paying attention

​Deep tech founders spend years hardening their core technology — novel materials, proprietary processes, physical infrastructure with real switching costs. But when investors sit across the table, they're asking a different question: how does AI compound what you've already built?

​This session is for founders in climate tech, biotech, energy, robotics, and advanced manufacturing who want to understand how AI layered on top of hard technology creates the kind of defensibility that VCs actually underwrite.