Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho @ Gigascale Capital | AI Infra, Data Centers, and Energy

Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho @ Gigascale Capital | AI Infra, Data Centers, and Energy

📅 July 29, 2026
🕐 6:30 PM PT

About This Event

We run large monthly hardware meetups, and people are asking for smaller, more intimate gatherings to connect further.

We have 30 spots, 3 courses, a great venue, and a curated experience.

Thank you to our co-hosts ​​Rho, a business banking platform, purpose-built for startups. More below.

This is for any hardware founder, engineer, investor.

  • All stages of startups and companies welcome.

Agenda

6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00-8:15 - Dinner + Discuss
8:15-8:30 - Asks + Offers

What to expect

  • 3x courses family style

  • drinks available

  • 2hrs to connect over dinner discussion

  • All emails + intros will be sent after the event for further connection

We have 30 spots, 3 courses, a great venue, and a curated experience.

​This is for founders, investors, and builders in climate.

  • All stages of startups and companies welcome.

​Agenda

6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00-7:15 Intros
7:00-8:15 - Dinner + Discuss
8:15-8:30 - Asks + Offers

​Thank you to our co-hosts!

Our dinners are usually $50 a person, thank you to Rho for helping make the ticket 50% off!

  • Rho is a business banking platform, purpose-built for startups. Manage cash, keep burn in check, and automate finance busywork that distracts founders from building products customers want.

​Thank you to our venue partner.

  • Gigascale Capital just announced a $250M fund for startups building in the physical economy for climate impact - clean energy, grid infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, physical AI, or the supply chains that support them.

​Thank you to our community partners.

  • informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. Whether you’re looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market strategy, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. Learn more.

If you want to help host a future SF Hardware Dinner, reach out to us at michael (at) hardwaremeetup (dot) com.

Hardware Meetup is a volunteer organization and relies on sponsorships to cover the costs of putting on these events.

We share the RSVP list with sponsors who support 3 or more events. By RSVPing to this event you consent to us sharing your email address and other registration information with our sponsors.

Location

📍 San Francisco, CA

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