🔹 🚀 Mercedes Bankston LinkedIn “Top Venture Capital Voice,” impact-investing champion, and mentor to 3,000+ startup pitches a year. Twenty years of turning bold ideas into global ventures across healthcare, fintech, and sustainability.
🔹 Michael Orlando – VP, ATEL Ventures, the financing engine behind America’s deep-tech growth. From venture leasing to multi-billion-dollar equipment financing, ATEL has fueled innovation since 1977.
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Agenda Sneak Peak:
Global Tariff Trends: How shifting trade policies reshape supply chains and go-to-market plans for emerging tech.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley: How institutional investors evaluate AI tokenization, risk, and ROI.
Tariffs: Innovation Catalysts or Killers? A candid debate on protectionism vs. collaboration.
Capital & Compliance for Founders: SAFE, equity, debt, or a smart mix in today’s market.
Plus: the deep-tech race for autonomy and why tokens are the “atoms” of modern AI—dictating costs, context windows, and breakthroughs.
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