Executional Venture Capital

Where intelligence
meets reality.

An investment platform backing world-altering technologies, led by the most ambitious founders who dare to build at the intersection of physical and digital.

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Conduit Venture Labs · Conduit Ventures
The opportunity in front of us

The greatest value creation of the century will come from AI's transformation of the physical world — and the lives lived within it.

Why we built Conduit

We've been through it.
We understand how hard it is.
We pair executional support with venture investing. 

Conduit is an investment platform purpose-built by and for physical-tech founders.

Software VC playbooks break on atoms.

Move-fast-and-break-things doesn't survive contact with supply chains, regulation, and manufacturing tolerances.

Complexity compounds quietly.

Capital deployed before the delivery system is de-risked turns into invisible debt — paid back in missed milestones.

Substack
Our answer
Executional venture capital.

The first dollars deployed to de-risk the real-world delivery system — before the cap table locks in.

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Build & Invest

One platform.
Two vehicles.

As physical-tech founders and operators, we know the early-stage hardware journey has no playbook — it’s an orchestration of many steps executed in unison to take an idea from prototype to manufactured, deployed, and scaled at commercial volume. That’s why we built two purpose-built vehicles, operated in concert to drive ultimate impact and value creation.

BUILD
Conduit Venture Labs
INVEST
Conduit Ventures
Partnering with labs and researchers to map and translate from ‘lab-to-market need.’
From idea to validated market need — product design, strategy, and the execution roadmap.
Backing repeat and top-1% founders with a clear execution strategy.
Backing startups entering the POC-to-DFM and pilot-to-paid phase.
Talent, manufacturing, deployment, and integration — the phase to scale revenue.
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Deep-Tech Translation
Research → prototype
02
Inception
Company formed
03
Market Entry
First revenue + GTM
04
Growth
Distribution and Serviceability
05
Scale
Commercial Scale M&A
Conduit Venture Labs BUILD

Venture Studio

We work hand-in-hand with founders and leading researchers to translate deep-tech and raw ideas into market-ready ventures — executional capital and operational co-founders across Deep-Tech Translation and Inception, carrying momentum into Market Entry.
Conduit Ventures INVEST

Venture Fund

A dedicated physical-tech venture fund investing from Inception through Growth — deploying capital and the full Conduit platform to de-risk and accelerate outcomes as companies commercialize and scale.
Partners we love to build and invest with
Investment Focus

We focus where long-term market value is created.

Five domains where physical and digital converge — and where we create outsized executional value. Hover to explore each.

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Beyond the typical value-add VC

We surround our founders with executional capital.

Talent, wisdom, access, and operational muscle — orbiting every company we back, so founders can navigate the complexity of launching and scaling physical tech.

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The Conduit Fellows Network

200+ operators.
One expert network.

Veteran operators, venture builders, hardware and software entrepreneurs, and strategic partners form Conduit's collective community — an unparalleled asset deployed alongside capital to align impact and returns.

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MEET MORE THE FELLOWS →

"We've built hardware from the first computer mouse through surgical robotics — and we bring that scar tissue to every founder we back."

TEAM LIKE NO OTHER

A team and network of strategic partners that can design, build, manufacture and scale… anything!

A hardware execution partnership that creates a unified and integrated network of the strategic resources required to deliver physical-tech / physical-AI solutions at breakneck speed and scale.

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Portfolio and Projects

The companies and projects we’re building the physical-tech future with.

Fluffy
Pet-Tech

Leveraging AI to augment labor, monitor and report on the behavior and welfare of dogs in care facilities.

FluffyPetTechnologies.com →
Atticus
AI Audio

Harnessing AI to revolutionize how we connect with authors, books, and ideas — the first AI-powered audiobook experience.

readatticus.com →
Project Sniff
Pet-Tech

Building stronger communities through pet-powered connections.

sniffpet.co →
Lantern Health
Studio Incubation · Stealth

Mapping the impact of environmental toxins on women’s health.

Athena
Wear-Tech · Stealth

Hyper-personalized recovery powered by your body’s real-time musculoskeletal digital twin and AI.

HSS — Hospital for Special Surgery
Partnership

Hospital for Special Surgery — MSK innovations in human performance through rehabilitation.

hss.edu →
IHMC
Partnership · Lab-to-Market

Commercial and defense applications of robotics, exoskeletons, and sensor-powered solutions.

ihmc.us →
UW Medicine
Partnership

Building new ventures from the “inside-out” — for health systems, workers, and patients.

uwmedicine.org →
Halo Braid
Applied Robotics · Conduit Beacon

HaloBraid is a braid-assist device that helps stylists complete braids in half the time.

halobraid.com →
13+Projects in pipeline(lots to build!)
Conduit Perspectives

Read, listen, and connect with Conduit.

Our latest perspectives, the ShopTalk podcast, and news from across the Conduit network.

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If you're a founder building at the intersection of physical and digital, we want to hear from you.

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