CEN Event: The Robotics Startup Innovation Landscape

Join CEN for an evening exploring innovations in the robotics landscape, how they will transform various sectors, and how corporate entities can leverage emerging technology to create business impact.

We will host a fireside chat with Fady Saad and Mark Martin of Cybernetix Ventures, a Boston-based fund investing in early stage robotics companies across manufacturing, logistics, construction, and healthcare verticals. Ignacio Galiana, Ph.D, Co-Founder and CEO of Verve Motion will join us to demo the company's new SafeLift Suit, a soft and light powered exosuit that wears like a backpack and takes 40% of the strain off a worker with every lift of a case, package, or piece of equipment.

Schedule

5 pm: Arrivals, refreshments

5:45 pm: Fireside chat and Q&A with Fady Saad and Mark Martin, Co-Founders and GPs of Cybernetix Ventures; Verve Motion Demo

6:30:7:30 pm: More refreshments and networking

About Verve Motion

Verve Motion, a wearable robotics company, is commercializing the first high-performance rapid setup exosuit for the workplace. The SafeLift™ suit wears like a backpack, takes 40 percent of the strain off a worker with every lift, and reduces injuries 5X - resulting in dramatically lower workers’ compensation costs, higher facility productivity, and better employee satisfaction and retention. Spun out from Harvard University’s Biodesign Laboratory based on research funded by the military, Verve Motion has been deploying its soft exosuit to customers since April 2020 across Grocery, Retail, Third Party Logistics, and Manufacturing industries.

About the speakers

Fady Saad Founder & GP, Cybernetix Ventures

Prior to founding Cybernetix, Fady Co-founded MassRobotics, the first and largest robotics & AI startup escalator in the world. Fady led the multi-million dollar fundraising for the organization and architected MassRobotics’ corporate partnership program and business model. He has advised dozens of robotics startups and connected them to 150+ VCs and partners in the US & globally.

Mark Martin Co-Founder & GP, Cybernetix Ventures

Mark has 25+ years of executive tech leadership spanning industrial, healthcare, automotive, and consumer industries. Prior to Co-Founding Cybernetix Mark was VP of Analog Devices’s Industrial Automation, Sensors, and IoT division leading a $1B+ business, where he led multiple acquisitions, strategic investments, and new business ventures.

About Cybernetix Ventures

Cybernetix Ventures is a venture capital firm leading the way for investments into early-stage robotics, automation, and AI startups. Headquartered in Boston, the world’s epicenter for robotics innovation, Cybernetix connects its portfolio to the national and global robotics ecosystems, bringing unparalleled expertise to companies poised to make major impacts in sectors including advanced manufacturing, logistics/warehousing, architecture, engineering and construction and healthcare/medical devices.