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The Do’s and Dont’s of Sharing Proprietary Information
VC’s want to invest in companies, not rebuild or downright copy what you are doing. If you have done your diligence and everything checks out, withholding too much information will raise some red flags.
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Investment opportunities in steel
The steelmaking industry accounts for about 8% of global CO2 emissions. What, if any, investment opportunities are there in the space?
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Where is the money when the money is everywhere?
Venture capital is on track to register its largest fundraising year on record despite the market correction.
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Diversity in clinical trials: necessary but insufficient
Higher drug approval rates, lower clinical trial costs, and improved efficacy are within reach with the right tools.
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Katerra’s failure paved the way for a better solution
Why Katerra became a master of none, and what the winning solution will actually look like.
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Good investors matter…right?
As Tolstoy once wrote, “Good families are all the same. Bad families are all unique in their own ways.”
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Why the end of the Ukraine-Russia war won’t end the global food shortage
Perhaps the answer to our food shortage lies in solving a simple, though still difficult, engineering problem: the ability to pick and harvest crops at speed and efficiency with minimum downtime.
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Interest rates are going up, but will there be continued interest in deep tech investing?
The fed continues to slowly increase interest rates, but there will still be ample capital and enthusiasm in funding early stage innovation.
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Should I care about the macro environment as a founder?
Should you be keeping track of macro events as a start up founder?
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Tapping into the power of nature
Despite and because of all the challenges lined up between bench-top and commercialization, it is critical to take a market-driven approach when picking a synthetic biology product.
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Conversations with the investment team at Creative Ventures. Musings about the way the world is changing, opportunities in startups, thoughts on investment process and decision-making.
Picnic is a Creative Ventures portfolio company applying robotics to food services. It just closed a major funding round and has seen significant traction with some of the most recognizable brands in food services.
In this podcast, James Wang, GP at Creative Ventures, interviews Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic, on the space. Why do restaurants need automation? Are robotics taking away all of our jobs? And what’s next for the space?
