Promus Ventures Welcomes Jeremy Teboul as Investment Analyst
A graduate of New York University and INSEAD, Jeremy foundedMeepLabs, a software development company in New York. Jeremy is French-Swiss, speaks four languages, and is a big fan of Roger Federer.
Satellite Services: Land of Opportunity for Some, Valley of Death for Many
Considered by many financial and strategic investors as an attractive market, with significant opportunities for value creation, the deployment and monetization of a satellite constellation come with several risks.
How an MVP can be your MVP
Many early-stage teams get very consistent feedback from investors when they try to raise their first institutional investment — what does your customer think? Here's what it takes to turn a minimum viable product into your most valuable player.
The Eye in the Sky: How New Space Can Help Measure and Mitigate Changes in Climate
Cleantech spent close to a decade in the wilderness after a string of high-profile bankruptcies, but the story of technology as a tool in the fight against climate change doesn’t end here.
Promus Ventures Welcomes Andreea Munteanu as Head of Marketing and Communications
We’re excited to welcome Andreea as Head of Marketing and Communications to the Promus Ventures team. Andreea has an impressive background having held similar roles at several organizations and most recently at Payconiq International, a leading digital payment company in Europe.
Spire Announces Plans to Go Public Via SPAC at $1.2B Valuation
Yesterday, two Promus Ventures portfolio companies (Rocket Lab and Spire) announced they were going public via SPAC (double the fun!). Yesterday we wrote about Rocket Lab’s $4.1B enterprise valuation announcement and today we get the privilege of trumpeting Spire and its plans to go public at a $1.2B enterpri
Rocket Lab Announces Plans to Go Public Via SPAC at $4.1B Valuation
You get one chance at life right? Might as well go big then, and hard to get much bigger than Rocket Lab. This extraordinary team has achieved a long list of accomplishments in a short period of time. Rocket puns aside (you were waiting), it has been a remarkable ride so far.
Play the Long Game with Long-Term People
True capital growth takes time and the startup game is a long game for all involved. We continue to see more and more new faces to the startup game act like short-term traders, and this will not end well for many of them. Founders, venture capitalists, and LPs are forced to learn patience and sometimes wait 10
Want to Meet and Talk? Lace-up Some Shoes!
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted pretty much everything in my day. Maybe the most significant change I have seen while working from home is that the usual cadence of the face-to-face meetings that made up my day has been replaced by video calls on platforms like Zoom, or plain old voice calls.
Valley of Death: SPACs and The Future of DeepTech Financing
For those who haven’t been paying attention to the latest developments on Wall Street (and you will be forgiven given the number of crazy things going on in all corners of the world), 2020 was the year of the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (“SPAC”).