Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs × Physical AI Builders | Special Edition

For over a decade, SVE Demo has been where Silicon Valley's earliest-stage founders get their first real shot. This spring, we're taking it to a new level — and we want you there.

We have something important to share with the SVE community.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs is hosting the Special Physical AI Startup Showcase at the F50 Physical AI Summit — and we are now officially opening applications for founders and nominations from investors.

In partnership with Physical AI Builders (PAB) and F50, SVE is bringing a curated cohort of early-stage Physical AI startups directly onto the floor of one of the most capital-concentrated gatherings in the deep tech calendar. As the hosts, we've designed the experience from the ground up: the format, the curation, the investor access, and the follow-on exposure.

This is SVE doing what it has always done — finding the best early-stage founders and putting them in the right room — just this time, the room is the F50 Summit.

The Physical AI sector is at an inflection point. Foundation models are entering embodied systems. The North American Manufacturing Corridor is becoming a policy priority. Edge inference, humanoid components, and energy infrastructure for AI workloads are all drawing serious institutional capital — right now.

As the longest-running founder community in Silicon Valley, SVE has a responsibility to make sure the best builders in this space are visible at exactly the right moment. The F50 Physical AI Summit gives us the platform to do that at scale.

Presentations take place on April 29 in Silicon Valley and June 11 in Dalals.

Summit info: physical.f50.ai

If you are building in any of the following areas, SVE wants to hear from you:

To be considered, your startup must:

SVE is limiting the showcase to 6–8 startups — enough to keep quality high and investor attention undivided.

👉 Apply to Present →

Part of what makes SVE different is this community — and right now, we're asking you to help us find the founders who deserve this stage.

If you have a portfolio company, or have recently met a founder, building at the intersection of AI and the physical world, we invite you to nominate them directly. Your recommendation carries weight in our review process. This is the fastest way to get a qualified early-stage company in front of the institutional investor pool attending the F50 Growth Program.

As the hosting organization, SVE has assembled a room that includes more than 30 venture firms — among them Prelude Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mighty Capital, Veritas Capital, F50 Ventures, Arc5 Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Plug and Play — alongside corporate attendees from Tesla, NVIDIA, Meta, IBM, AWS, Samsung, Lam Research, Apple, and many others.

Your nomination could be the introduction that changes a company's trajectory.

👉 Nominate a Startup →

As hosts, we've kept the format intentional: high-signal, no filler, built to respect both the founder's preparation and the investor's time.

4-Minute Technical Pitch — Lead with your alpha. What is the intelligence breakthrough or hardware edge that separates you? Skip the backstory. Start with the thesis.

3-Minute Rapid-Fire Q&A — A panel of Investor Judges drawn directly from the summit's keynote speaker list will challenge your assumptions and probe your defensibility. This is where real signal gets separated from polished slides.

Being selected for the SVE-hosted showcase isn't just 7 minutes on stage. It comes with the full weight of the SVE × PAB network behind you:

Summit-floor positioning — You present in a room already primed by conversations on NVIDIA's GR00T roadmap, power grid constraints, and the future of North American manufacturing. Your pitch lands in context.

Institutional reach — SVE will feature every selected startup in the Physical AI Monthly Signals newsletter at 50builders.ai, distributed to institutional LPs, GPs, and deep tech operators after the event.

Community backing — You gain access to the combined network of the oldest developer community in Silicon Valley and the leading Physical AI research and builder group in the region.

Applications and nominations are reviewed on a rolling basis. Early submissions receive priority consideration.

👉 Apply or Nominate →

Questions? Reach out to the SVE team directly or reply to this email.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVE) is the longest-running founder community in Silicon Valley. Physical AI Builders (PAB) is the leading research and operator group focused on the intersection of AI and the physical world.