join us for StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026an intimate evening bringing together leading investors and entrepreneurs for high-profile conversations from the front lines of venture capital and frontier technology. Taking place on Thursday, June 18 at the Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, this edition continues StrictlyVC’s focus on direct access to the ideas and leaders shaping where technology and capital are headed next. Save your place here.
For executives, investors, and founders navigating an increasingly complex marketplace, this is an opportunity to enter conversations rarely held in public and hear directly from the people driving change in defense, artificial intelligence, and advanced industries.
Who comes on stage
we will start the evening with Ethan Thorntonthe founder Mach Industries. Thornton will discuss what it means to rapidly build a hard technology company and how defense innovation is undergoing a structural shift as autonomy, manufacturing and national security become increasingly intertwined. His perspective reflects a new generation of founders who are choosing to operate in fields once considered slow-moving, now being rapidly reshaped by technological acceleration.
Then the conversation turns to supporting the next frontier of physical AI Delian Asparouhov of Founders Fund along with Seif Khawaja of Shinkei Systems. Together, they will explore how advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation are beginning to reshape not just software systems, but the physical world itself, and what it takes to move breakthrough technologies from concept to real-world deployment at scale.
Additional speakers and conversations will be announced in the coming weeks as the StrictlyVC Los Angeles agenda continues to take shape. Stay up to date with new speaker announcements and event developments.
An evening that leads to meaningful connections
As the evening unfolds, the room becomes the true value of the event. Conversations continue offstage in a setting defined by access, focus and proximity to the people actively shaping the next generation of companies. It’s an environment where input turns into insight, and insight often turns into opportunity. Save your place here.
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