
Conduit Venture Labs Fellows
Expert network supporting hardware-focused startups.

Expert network supporting hardware-focused startups.
Conduit Venture Labs is a startup studio and hardware-focused venture firm that maintains an expert network called the "Conduit Fellows," comprising over 100 hardware professionals including software and hardware engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, and manufacturers. Rather than a traditional fellowship program for individuals, Conduit Fellows is an expert advisory network that supports companies in the Conduit portfolio. The network provides mentorship, market validation, and specialized expertise across hardware, software, design, and manufacturing domains.
Conduit Venture Labs focuses on building hardware companies by leveraging an expert network to provide mentorship and support. The program targets startups in enabling technologies, agriculture technology, and health and performance sectors, addressing challenges in hardware commercialization and fostering innovation in these fields.
Designed for Founders, Investors, Operators, Researchers, Builders, Corporate Innovators. The program is hybrid. Participation is generally unknown.
Conduit describes the network as including experienced operators, venture builders, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners. This is a description of its community, not a published set of formal eligibility or admission requirements.
Participants gain access to a vast network of over 100 experts across various disciplines, providing mentorship, market validation, and specialized guidance in hardware development, manufacturing, and commercialization. The program also offers project-based engagements and ongoing advisory roles tailored to the specific needs of portfolio companies.
Who can apply, how people get in and whether it is open right now.
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This one invites people; you cannot apply cold. The way in is work the program can already point to, and the people its own pages name.
Conduit describes its community as experienced operators, venture builders, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners. Those descriptions are not formal admission criteria.
Conduit says its companies receive mentorship from Fellows. It also lists advisory services as part of Fellows support and says portfolio companies can access executives, builders, and operators across hardware, software, climate, and health technology.
The Fellows page's “Join our Mission” link leads to Conduit's general Connect page. The evidence does not establish a dedicated Fellow application or application requirements.
An August 23, 2026 announcement documented a new Fellows member, but the available evidence does not establish that public applications are open.

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Conduit's August 23, 2026 announcement documents a Fellows addition.
Source: Meet Dr. Christopher Lüscher!Conduit's Fellows page directs its mission invitation to the general Connect page.
Source: Conduit Venture Labs - Our FellowsConduit's spotlight attributes to Taylor Black the view that Fellowship lets him contribute experience to help companies progress.
Source: Conduit Venture Labs - Our FellowsTed McFarland says his Conduit Fellowship accompanies his continuing TM2Space practice.
Source: Ted McFarland’s PostTed McFarland says he became a Conduit Fellow. The inspected post does not establish an exact joining date.
Source: Ted McFarland’s PostOn August 23, 2026, Conduit announced that Christopher Lüscher had joined its Fellows network.
Source: Meet Dr. Christopher Lüscher!Superscout Pro
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