Future Ventures Fund III : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Future Ventures Fund III / jurvetson
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| 説明 | Future Ventures is proud to announce the closing of Fund III, at the same $200M size as our prior two funds. We are excited to help the next generation of deep-tech companies forge a better future for the benefit of humanity. TechCrunch broke the news today, and we were happy to share some exciting examples from our prior funds: Better Meat (mycellium alt-meat), ZaiNar (geolocation with SDR interferometry), YourChoice Therapeutics (male birth control pill) and MosaicML (10x smaller AI models like GPT)."With Future Ventures cofounder Maryanna Saenko, the pair also wrote the very first check to Musk’s neurotechnology startup, Neuralink, while Saenko, a robotics expert with degrees from Carnegie Mellon, has driven investments in a wide number of similarly ambitious companies, including Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which is aiming to build a compact fusion power plant; 64x Bio, a gene therapy manufacturing company that raised $55 million last year; and Gameto, a reproductive health company that wants to egg freezing as routine as a tooth cleaning — and nearly as affordable.Given their track record — Jurvetson was also an early investor in the now public satellite data company Planet Labs — the obvious question is why they keep raising the same, conservative amount for each fund, and the answer, suggests Saenko, boils down to strategy.For one thing, Future Ventures has and remains focused exclusively on seed- and early-stage companies, writing initial checks of between $3 and $6 million, she says. In other words, it doesn’t need a lot of money considering what it’s putting to work.It also helps that the firm – by its own telling – dives into startups where there isn’t a lot of competition from rival outfits at the outset, either because it’s a little 'out there' or the time commitment is longer than most VCs can tolerate."P.S. Merci to Christopher Michel for our favorite team photo. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-04-12 10:47:26 |
| 撮影者 | jurvetson , Los Altos, USA |
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