Pitch Today
November
Tuesday
18:00–20:00 2026 · San Francisco time
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Join us at the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator for an evening bringing together quantum founders, researchers, investors, academics, and industry leaders from across the Bay Area.
Selected early-stage quantum startups will pitch their companies and technologies, followed by networking across the broader quantum ecosystem.
Who should attend?
Founders & StartupsMeet investors, researchers, industry leaders, and potential collaborators. Startups from pre-seed through Series A working across the quantum ecosystem are encouraged to apply to pitch.
Investors & IndustryDiscover emerging quantum companies, meet founders, and explore new technologies, partnerships, and commercialization opportunities.
Researchers & AcademicsConnect with founders, investors, and industry teams interested in translating cutting-edge quantum research into real-world applications.
What to expect
Pitches from emerging quantum startups
Networking with founders, investors, researchers, and industry leaders
Opportunities to connect with the Berkeley and LBNL quantum communities
Conversations around commercialization, research partnerships, and the future of quantum technology
Additional opportunities and prizes to be announced
📍 Berkeley Gateway Accelerator📅 November 10🕕 6:00–8:00 PM
Interested in pitching?
We are accepting applications from Series A and earlier startups working anywhere across the quantum ecosystem, including quantum computing, sensing, communications, photonics, software, enabling technologies, and quantum materials.
Apply to pitch: Application Link
Whether you're building a quantum company, researching the next breakthrough, investing in deep tech, or looking to understand where quantum technology is headed, we hope you'll join us.
Cooley attorneys will be available for short, one-on-one sessions to help emerging companies work through practical questions involving IP strategy, company formation, financing, and diligence preparation. Bring us the issues you’re thinking through now, or the ones you want to get ahead of before your next financing or major milestone. Sign up in advance or walk in. Sign up here.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Chris Holly is a patent partner at Cooley LLP who advises early-stage synthetic biology companies and venture investors on IP strategy from formation through commercialization. Over the past decade, including time spent in-house at companies such as Zymergen and Pivot Bio, he has seen which IP strategies hold up as companies scale, which ones fall apart, and the common assumptions that get early-stage synbio teams into trouble.
Daniel Parames is a corporate partner at Cooley LLP who advises private, venture-backed technology companies, venture capitalists, angel investors and executives. He has extensive experience working with technology companies in all areas of business, with a particular focus on the quantum, agtech, fintech, Internet of Things, ecommerce, electronics, cleantech and advanced materials industries. His experience includes forming domestic and foreign companies, structuring and executing financings (including debt and equity), structuring liquidity programs and secondary transactions, and advising companies and investors across various industries – and around the world – on strategic corporate and business matters.
This event is generously sponsored by Cooley LLP, a global law firm supporting founders and investors across life sciences and emerging technology.
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