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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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A new price tag: Are you paying too much to buy in?
In this day and age, it’s not about not paying more. It’s about finding a company that does better with more capital.
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What we invest in
Our team at Creative Ventures prides itself on being market-driven deeptech investors. We’re looking for market-driven companies and not technologies in search of a problem.
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The wrong way to divide the pie
Venture is as much a partnership between investors and founders as it is amongst the investment partners themselves. Thus, the best way to divide the venture pie is to simply create a larger pie where everyone ultimately has more than enough to eat.
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The importance of empirical evidence for early-stage deeptech companies
Here are three must-have sections for when you’re compiling your empirical evidence:
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The Impacts of the Omicron Variant for Startups
We aren’t public health experts, but we have seen how COVID-19 has played out just like everyone else, especially the impact the Delta variant had. With information on Omicron still evolving (and quite rapidly), it’s can be difficult to avoid guessing how Omicron itself is different in order to actually make any decisions.
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The Carbon Equation
We’re wrapping up 2021 with anticipated ~50B record high investments in climate tech. Despite the capital rush, we stay disciplined to our market-driven approach, looking for deployable solutions with clear economic incentives.
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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?
