We support ambitious, DeepTech founders tackling complex problems to advance daily lives across the world.
As a child, Peter Beck knew he wanted to build rockets. Since 2006, Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully grown into a vertically-integrated space company delivering reliable launch services, spacecraft, satellite components and on-orbit management for companies worldwide.
While playing for Harvard’s squash team, Will Ahmed dreamed of better understanding his physical recovery and strain. He built WHOOP, a wearable performance and optimization platform worn worldwide by top athletes and consumers.
Helene Huby founded The Exploration Company (TEC) to build the next generation of “space cabs”. TEC develops, manufactures and operates Nyx, a modular and reusable orbital vehicle that can be refueled in orbit. Nyx will launch with flying cargo, aiming to get humans in space.
The idea of building development kits that would allow anyone to design and publish customs maps came to Eric Gundersen after a trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2009. Today, Mapbox powers navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere.
From university spin-off to operating the largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation in the world, Rafal Modrzewski and Pekka Laurila created ICEYE to democratize the Earth Observation data space.
A mechanical engineer who grew up milking cows on a farm, Craig Piggott left building rockets at RocketLab in 2006 and founded Halter. The company’s GPS-enabled, solar-powered collars enable farmers to remotely set geographic boundaries for dairy and beef cows and increase pastures’ productivity.
Andrea Tomasz and Vivian Chu have long desired to see robots enhancing human jobs. Today, Diligent builds robots like Maxi to assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
When Sid Satish witnessed his first surgery, he was surprised that no one could calculate the amount of blood the patient had lost. He founded Gauss Surgical to enable doctors and hospitals to better understand blood loss in operating rooms. Gauss Surgical was acquired by Stryker in 2021.
Tim Harris, Fergus Noble and Colin Beighley started developing Swift Navigation with a crowdfunding campaign in 2013. Today, their precise positioning technology platform improves location accuracy from several meters to centimeter-level and is used by millions of devices across the globe.
Travis Deyle and Erik Schluntz went from an idea to paid robotic deployments at customer sites in 12 months. Since 2017, Cobalt Robotics’ indoor robots have been working alongside human guards to provide security.
Our Musings and News
Pierre Festal | Nov 19, 2024
The Exploration Company announced a $160M Series B financing round, a significant milestone for the team’s growing ambitions in space exploration…
Mike Collett | Jul 23, 2024
Many founding teams we meet define their total addressable market (TAM) as some astronomical figure that bears no sense of reality. Every now and then, teams come along…
Jeremy Teboul | Sep 17, 2024
Promus Ventures is privileged to lead the $6.7M Series A round of Samp, a Paris-based startup using cutting-edge AI to redefine how industrial facilities are managed and maintained…
Gareth Keane | Apr 16, 2024
Starting a new business can be an exhilarating journey, but without a clear understanding of your target market, your startup might be sailing in uncharted waters. This is where customer discovery can be vital. It…