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Deep Tech Episodes

May 1, 2022

What is a down-round and how to survive one? By Russ Wilcox

Russ Wilcox , Partner at PillarVC talks about his experience running startups himself. Throughout his career he raised 10 times and 3 times these were down-rounds. In this episode Russ explains what down-rounds are bad, how t...

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Oct. 6, 2021

2X valuation in 4 months - how and why? Kirk Marple about Unstruk Data

Kirk Marple , Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data talks about their fundraising round and how they doubled their valuation in less than 4 months. We also spoke about some useful techniques that can help founders fundraise. Kirk's...

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Sept. 4, 2021

Selling complex tech to investors and customers - how Daloopa made it…

Thomas Li, Co-Founder and CEO at Daloopa talks about explaining complicated tech in simple terms and selling it to investors and buyers. We also discussed deep tech in greater detail and who are the primary targets for fundraising in these …

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July 17, 2021

Launching satellites and raising for them - how to fund raise for spa…

Anthony Baker , Founder and CEO at Satellite VU talks about fundraising for his company that is about to launch multiple satellites into space. We spoke about testing out such a complicated idea with low budget and presenting...

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May 23, 2021

First-Time Founders—How To Give Investors the Right Signals - With Al…

Alex Luce, Partner at Creative Ventures, talks about investing in first-time founders, the mistakes they tend to make and the green flags that they can show investors. We also touch on some major red flags that Alex sees and how …

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March 29, 2021

IP rights, NDAs and starting early - the story of Physna by Paul Powe…

Paul Powers, Founder & CEO of Physna talks about the beginnings of his career in startups and the challenges he faced. We talk a lot about NDAs, IP rights and how important those are for startup founders. We also touch …

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March 3, 2021

1 day delivery anywhere in the world - how is DASH doing it? By Joel …

Joel Ifill, Founder and CEO at DASH Systems talks about their unique technology, how they manage to protect it without shoving NDAs in everyone's face and how they managed to prove such a complicated concept. For everyone in deep tech …

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Feb. 3, 2021

When technical risk outweighs the market risk it's the true deep tech…

Ryan Li, Co-Founder at Deep Ventures talks about the deep tech investing and how he sees it. We also spoke about how he managed to raise and run a syndicate while being a college student and how investors reacted to …

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Feb. 1, 2021

Where is AI getting us and how deep-tech investing works? By Amit Garg

Amit Garg, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Tau Ventures talks about deep tech investing and the AI field. We discussed how VCs make their decisions while evaluating complicated deep-tech startups. We also discussed how AI is used now, where it …

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Jan. 24, 2021

Gas Stations in Space. By Daniel Faber

Daniel Faber, CEO at Orbitfab explains why he decided to go into the space field, what is happening there right now and what is more importantly - how to raise money in the field that is very capital-intense? We spoke …

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Jan. 20, 2021

PLASMA THRUSTERS - how to raise money in capital-intense fields? By M…

Mark Stokes CEO and Co-Founder at Magdrive, a company that is developing a plasma thruster for the new space age talks about raising money for such complicated projects, what it takes to get into the space startup field, what are …

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Nov. 18, 2020

Senior technology leadership and how are startups built. By Alex Ecke…

Alex Eckelberry is a technology CEO with an extensive background in senior technology leadership, with private, venture/PE backed, and publicly-traded companies. Alex was most recently President and COO of AutoLoop, a SaaS disrupter in the automotive technology space, now merged …

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Nov. 2, 2020

Building advisory boards - how does it work? By Skip Sanzeri

Skip Sanzeri, currently the founder and partner at Multiverse Capital and founder at QuSecure and Quantum Thought, previously the founder with several exits and failures. In this episode we talk about creating advisory boards - how to compensate advisors, what …

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Oct. 23, 2020

How a student study group evolved into a decentralised venture capita…

Poseidon Ho, Founder and General Partner at Outliers Fund talks about investing in deep tech and the real moonshots. We've also talked about crypto investing and how Outliers Fund was started and how it became what it is in 2020.

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Oct. 7, 2020

Health tech field - how should founders overcome legal and financial …

Sunny Kumar, Partner at GSR Ventures talks about the healthtech field. How can founders overcome multiple regulation barriers and get through the capital-intense field? How should they get in touch with the right people in healthtech space if they don't …

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