Skip to content

Overview

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.

Investment focus

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.

Program details

Designed for Founders, Investors, Operators, Researchers, Builders, Corporate Innovators. The program is hybrid. Participation is generally unknown.

Who it is for

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.

Check if you are eligible

Check your eligibility for Conduit Venture Labs Fellows

Benefits

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.

How to go about it

  1. Read what it asks for

    Who can apply, how people get in and whether it is open right now.

  2. Have something to show

    Programs pick people whose work they can already point to. Put yours where it can be found.

  3. Apply the way the program asks

    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.

Questions about this program

Who does Conduit describe as part of the Fellows community?

Conduit describes its community as experienced operators, venture builders, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners. Those descriptions are not formal admission criteria.

What support is associated with Conduit Fellows?

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.

How can someone inquire about joining?

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.

Are public applications currently open?

An August 23, 2026 announcement documented a new Fellows member, but the available evidence does not establish that public applications are open.

About Conduit VC

Conduit VC

Venture Studio

Investing in physical technology and AI-driven startups.

Lists that include this program

From public sources

What the sources say about Conduit Venture Labs Fellows

HAX Deep Tech Accelerator logoAccelerator

HAX (operated by SOSV)

The world's first and most active pre-seed program for hard tech and deep tech startups.

Location
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Format
In Person
Terms
Equity
Fund Fellow Founders logoCommunity

Finance, Freedom, Fellows

Empowering diverse founders with capital and mentorship.

Location
Europe, specifically the Nordics and Baltics
Format
Remote

Superscout Pro

Find faster. Show up verified. Keep your deals private.

$99a year, or $12 a month
Get Pro
  • Search that narrowsInvestors, programs, accelerators, incubators and studios, by stage, sector and place.
  • A verified profileThe people you reach know you are who you say you are.
  • A private deal vaultThe startups you are watching, with your notes and your reasons. Nobody else's eyes.

Is this page right?Reviewed · How the research works

Something's off