Matterwave Ventures’ Post

Deep technologies are helping to radically transform industries and the world we live in. Our next Vancouver Hardware Meetup on June 29 will discuss what is required to navigate regulatory hurdles, secure funding, and build teams with specialized expertise in order to bring deep tech to market. Early Bird registration ends June 1, so save your spot soon! #tech #hardware #hardwareengineering #deeptech

super insightful takes from deeptech VC Lawrence Lundy-Bryan FRSA - Research Partner Lunar Ventures on the State of the Future, advice for the UK Gov on the global tech race, and his wildest tech dreams in 2050. check out their research on the State of the Future featuring 150+ frontier technologies - https://lnkd.in/gExv2jmb - best dashboard for tech enthusiasts and pros!

Reflecting on my recent panel at Bits & Pretzels, featuring Daniel Metzler (Isar Aerospace), Markus Pflitsch (Terra Quantum AG), and Andreas Unseld (UVC Partners), where we discussed Europe's path to global competitiveness. We must take decisive action now to maintain a vital economic base for European deep-tech companies 🚀 Here is a recap of the steps to take: 1️⃣  Funding Gap: While early-stage support is available, securing larger rounds of investments for deep tech companies remains a challenge. To nurture European tech companies, new funding instruments like milestone-based funding programs and incentives for investments in deep tech need to extend the European technology toolkit. 2️⃣  Regulatory Imperative: An environment that encourages innovation while providing a clear framework signals planning security and encourages larger investments. 3️⃣  European Deep-Tech Role models: We find remarkable role models for success in the global deep-tech arena, like SpaceX or OpenAI, but sorely miss them in Europe.  With strategic funding and regulatory support, Europe can nourish global tech leaders. The potential is immense as we have amazing tech talent as well as a great industrial ecosystem ✨ (Thank you to Robin Christoph Knapp, Jelena Mrvelj, Danilo Jovicic-Albrecht, and Jan Heinemann, for the great panel about clean energy solutions.) 

🤝 The ecosystem around QuTech has spawned several quantum technology startups and scale-ups that provide components for quantum systems. They can also help make the entire quantum system, the full stack, work. 📍 In this infographic, you can see how Delft Circuits, QphoX, QuantWare, Orange Quantum Systems, and Qblox contribute to our Quantum Delft ecosystem. Most of them are housed in House of Quantum. 💬 Kees Eijkel, our own Director of Business Development: ‘Connecting research and applications is integral to QuTech. The natural tendency for scientists is to focus on their research, while companies tend to focus on selling to their clients. We are the hub that facilitates cooperation between the parties, not on a project basis but permanently.’ Read more in the Pioneering Tech magazine 👇 https://lnkd.in/ewHPcKnQ

Exciting times with the launch of NYSE RVTY yesterday! This week find our teams at #asgct2023 LA showcasing solutions for cell & gene therapy, at #pegs23 Boston highlighting our value-add tools for protein science & engineering, and at #bioit23 Boston with informatics solutions designed for better data, faster. Stop by, meet our incredible teams, and explore how to simplify and accelerate your workflow. #revvity.

A Whale of a Story:Was it Luck? I had a celebratory lunch last week with a former colleague who spent 18 years on a “startup" called Imperas, to have it acquired by Synopsys recently. It wasn’t big in the news cycle, possibly because the giant Synopsys whale also recently swallowed a  “smaller” $40B whale. Simon Davidmann is a name many in my former industry would know. But most do not know the struggles he went through to get to this point, and I won’t spell them all out here. 18 years of work is just one kind of difficulty. Losing his primary VC for reasons beyond his control not only lost him the ability to ramp up a product or pay early employees, it also lost all his early Imperas angels; notable people in the semiconductor industry that Simon obviously didn’t want to lose.  With some dedicated individuals like Larry Lapides and Lee Moore buying the vision, Imperas struggled over the years to find product market fit, and only really moved ahead when the RISC-V opportunity began spouting like the stream from a whale's blow hole. Now that RISC-V is a breaching whale, whereas emulation and other ancient solutions for modeling processors in simulations have long been beached whales, I hear some opinions that Simon was lucky to get acquired, or lucky that RISC-V popped up. This kind of sentiment is common when a colleague or acquaintance makes a move on a tech opportunity and wins. I’ve heard it before. All some see is the huge whale splashing now. The Imperas team’s years of toil put them in a position to take advantage of RISC-V. It’s time for others to move ahead and create their own little spout as a whale is going to get hungry again. Congratulations Simon and the Imperas team for showing us how it’s done!