2025 MATCHPLAY
STARTUP SUMMIT

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‍The inaugural Matchplay Startup Summit was held in Austin, Texas, in partnership with Oracle NetSuite Accelerator

This two-day exclusive event brought together over 100 attendees, including C-suite executives, investors, and industry leaders, to explore the latest in startup innovation.

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Highlights

Panel: How Fast-Moving Technologies Are Rewriting the Human Experience

We’ll open with a look at the breakthroughs reshaping life itself - from neural interfaces that can read thoughts, to synthetic tissues that merge biology and technology, to deep AI systems learning faster than we can comprehend.

This session brings together world-changing startups leading these revolutions to explore:

1. How neuroscience, biotech, and AI are converging to redefine what humans can do.
2. What happens when technology begins to merge with our bodies and minds.
3. How these changes will reshape creativity, health, and human identity in the next 3–5 years.

It’s not a panel about speculation - it’s a front-row look at the future already unfolding.

Fireside Chat: New Frontiers - The Future Is Closer Than You Think

AI Isn’t a Moment — It’s a Movement.

And the future is arriving faster than we can process.

In this opening fireside chat, Bipasha Ghosh takes us on a guided tour through the world’s most transformative technologies — AI, blockchain, VR/AR, IoT, 5G/6G, and neural computing — and how they’re converging to reshape how we work, create, and live.

With two decades of experience across CNN, BBC, Reuters, and MIT Sloan, Bipasha reveals how companies, classrooms, and communities can embrace this new era thoughtfully, ethically, and strategically.

Panel: The Match Effect: Building Trust When Investing in the Age of AI

In a world where algorithms can predict markets but can’t replicate trust, investors are redefining what it means to find the right “match.”

This conversation brings together three leading investors to explore how trust, alignment, and authenticity have become the new currencies of capital. They’ll share how investor–founder relationships are evolving in an age when data is abundant but genuine conviction is rare - and why the best investments still start with human chemistry.

From identifying signals that matter to navigating AI-driven diligence, this panel reveals how the smartest investors approach relationships, risk, and intuition in 2025.

About MatchPlay

MatchPlay tees up startup founders on their journey towards their entrepreneurial moonshot. Acting as trusted caddies, our team will stand side-by-side with founders to guide them through the challenging fairways of startup success. With transparency and community in mind, our goal is to match founders to the right resources around the world, ensuring they have the perfect swing to drive their startup to new heights.

About Lowenstein Sandler

Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) group provides a tailored approach to the legal strategies and services essential for the successful launch, growth, and culmination of new enterprises. Our collaborative, multidisciplinary ECVC practice takes a 360° approach to innovation, investment, and business, representing both investors and startups across the technology, life science and healthcare vertical throughout all stages of a company’s life cycle.​

Each year, our ECVC group helps create hundreds of new businesses and closes thousands of transactions. Because we represent both investors and companies seeking financing, we are ideally positioned to facilitate fruitful relationships between startup, emerging, and growth companies and providers of capital. Our law firm serves as outside general counsel to many technology and life science companies, often counseling them on matters involving financings, licensing, and intellectual property.​

Have questions or want to connect? Reach out to Abe Kwon (Partner - Emerging Companies & Venture Capital, Lowenstein Sandler) at akwon@lowenstein.com.

About Gildre

Gildre is for founders, entrepreneurs, executives, anyone looking to make an impact and drive change. Whether that’s changing the way a single customer does business or tackling a groundbreaking social issue, our community is here to support and lift one another.