Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups - SVE

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About us

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVE) is the largest grassroots community of startup founders in the Bay Area, active since 2008. With over 36,000 members, SVE has been the launchpad for thousands of innovators—providing opportunities to pitch, demo, and connect within the broader startup ecosystem.
Our signature SVE Pitch & Demo Night (Now Showcase) is the largest and oldest community pitch meetup in Silicon Valley, where ideas turn into ventures.
Today, SVE is evolving at the frontier of Physical AI, Embodied AI, and Robotics Entrepreneurship, while continuing to support innovation in construction, real estate, PropTech, and SaaS.
We are proud to partner with the Physical AI Builders community, the Future 50 Physical AI Builders Program, and the F50 Physical AI Summit to accelerate the next generation of breakthrough entrepreneurs.
From weekly pitch nights and co-founder matching events, to panels, summits, and mixers, SVE remains the beating heart of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial spirit. Whether you’re a first-time founder, a seasoned builder, or an investor seeking the next frontier, SVE is your home to connect, innovate, and grow.

Home: http://sve.io/e
Watch us on youtube:
youtube.com/c/founderworld

Our regular activities
• SVE Startup Founder Showcase and Demo
• SVE Startup Mixer
• Founder Hiking
Twitter: @SVEntrepreneur
Follow the founder David Cao: http://linkedin.com/in/davidcao01

Featured event

Post GTC: Physical AI, Embodied AI, Robotics Meeteup

Wed, Mar 25 · 4:00 PM PDT

Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA, US

Join us for an electrifying evening of innovation right after GTC, focused on Embodied AI, Physical AI, and Robotics.
This dynamic prelude to the F50 Physical AI Summit 2026 connects Silicon Valley’s leading minds in embodied AI, physical AI, robotics, and hardware.
Speakers

Qi Diaz, Executive Director, Hacker Dojo
Keith Newman, Managing Partner, GTM Firm | Host, Physical AI Podcast
David Fu, Physical AI Builder | Former Zoox, Nio, Apple
Robert Schneider, Systems Architect and Co-Founder, FlexVertex
Robert McDonnell, Founder & CEO, Anubá Technologies
Yera-Tech, Founder Yerlan Alimkhanov

Agenda

4:30 PM – Host & Sponsor Welcome
Davd Fu, PAB
Qi Diaz, Executive Director, Hacker Dojo
Welcome Remarks: Keith Newman, Managing Partner, GTM Firm | Host, Physical AI Podcast
Presentation: When a Physical AI System Makes a Decision — Can You Reconstruct It?
Speaker: Robert Schneider, Systems Architect and Co-Founder, FlexVertex
Startup Presentation: Anubá Technologies
Presenter: Robert McDonnell, Founder & CEO, Anubá Technologies (with live demo)
Startup Presentation: Yera-Tech (MegaDrone360) Presenter: Yerlan Alimkhanov, Co-Founder & Chief Engineer, Yera-Tech (prototype showcase)
6:00 PM – Open Mic & Networking

Featured Presentations & Showcases
Keith Newman, Managing Partner, GTM Firm
David Fu, Ex Zoox / Nio / Apple
Robert Schneider, Systems Architect and Co-Founder, FlexVertex Presentation: When a Physical AI System Makes a Decision — Can You Reconstruct It?
As embodied AI systems move into real-world deployment, auditability becomes a systems problem—not just a model problem. Edge-deployed SLMs and cloud-based LLMs often operate over fragmented or partially replicated state: local sensor snapshots at the edge, rehydrated logs, and asynchronously updated embeddings in the cloud.
When state diverges, reasoning can diverge. Version drift, asynchronous pipelines, and inconsistent context make deterministic replay and post-incident reconstruction difficult to guarantee.
This talk explores architectural patterns for maintaining edge–cloud consistency using structured state models, version-pinned execution traces, and replayable traversal paths. The focus is not model accuracy, but system reliability—designing physical AI systems that can explain their decisions weeks after deployment.
Robert Schneider is a systems architect and co-founder of FlexVertex, focused on graph-based state models and distributed AI infrastructure. He has authored multiple technical books and spent decades designing high-performance distributed data systems. His current work centers on deterministic replay, execution lineage, and auditability in edge-deployed AI systems.
Robert McDonnell, Founder & CEO, Anubá Technologies Robert McDonnell is the Founder & CEO of Anubá Technologies, building the perception fabric that makes physical spaces intelligent. He previously built carrier-grade infrastructure for Stanford Health and Pronto.ai, and now deploys edge AI vision systems on NVIDIA Jetson for real-time operational intelligence.
Anubá Technologies is building the perception fabric to make physical spaces intelligent. We deploy vision language models on NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware across locations like QSR restaurants, processing real-time camera feeds to extract operational intelligence—speed of service, occupancy, safety events—without sending video to the cloud.
Our platform handles the full lifecycle: edge inference, fleet orchestration, model versioning, and a closed-loop retraining pipeline from edge to cloud. We’re live in pilot with a national QSR chain, partnered with Nebius for cloud infrastructure, and integrated with ZEDEDA for fleet management.
Today’s demo shows our real-time multi-camera perception system running on production hardware at a live restaurant site.

### Startup Presentation: Yera-Tech (MegaDrone360)

Presenter: Yerlan Alimkhanov, Co-Founder & Chief Engineer, Yera-Tech
Yera-Tech is developing MegaDrone360, a multipurpose modular drone platform designed for emergency response, industrial, and defense applications (Physical AI).
The system features a patented modular architecture with a cylindrical central fuselage that serves as a structural axis, allowing quick-swappable mission modules that rotate 360°. Modules currently include firefighting (dry-powder extinguishers), night-rescue spotlights, industrial inspection sensors, delivery payloads, mobile solar power generation, and aerial entertainment (light/laser shows and fireworks). New modules can be developed rapidly for specific operator needs.
The prototype will be presented at the startup showcase.
Yerlan Alimkhanov is a Mechanical Engineer, 3D Designer, Inventor, and EB-1A visa holder for Extraordinary Ability in Engineering. He serves as Co-Founder and Chief Engineer at Yera-Tech. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/megadrone360c
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