Boost VC

Boost VC: We lead Pre-Seed rounds for Deep Tech (bio, space, AI, robotics, crypto, VR, Sci-Fi). $500k checks.

[Boost VC @BoostVC]

Boost VC leads Pre-Seed rounds for Deep Tech (crypto, space, bio, AI, robotics, VR, Sci-Fi).

Founders: Apply for investment: https://t.co/2yvps1zYmK

Investors: Join demo day: https://t.co/Lm9aWsrZSg

[Adam Draper ⏻ @AdamDraper]

Just a reminder: @BoostVC is bio-obsessed as far as investing. We have 82 active Bio investments and want to get to 1,000.

- bio- defense
- bio- super powers
- bio- cures

We invest first checks $500k. Engineer + Scientist teams seem to create the most momentum.

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

"@BoostVC gives founders who are capable a chance to prove it" is the best VC one-liner I've heard in a long time

also it's true, imo Boost is one of the very few funds in existence that both:

> invests consistently in high-impact but idiosyncratic ideas
> can invest checks big enough to carry founders long enough to show tangible proof points of their thesis (without requiring broader investor consensus or other VC checks at all)

[Silicon Mania @siliconmania]

OFFICIAL: @BoostVC has joined as a sponsor for the Silicon Mania Mag II.

• Boost VC backs founders working on the kinds of ideas most people think are too early or too weird.

• They lead pre-seed rounds with $500k checks for companies trying to make a billion lives better.

drop your one-liner below. best ones get sent to BoostVC.

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

One of our founders mentioned @BoostVC in his wedding vows this weekend for writing the first check into the company.

Investor achievement unlocked 🫶

[Adam Draper ⏻ @AdamDraper]

Gave a presentation to the partners @BoostVC this morning, the first slide was this:

[Gus Domel ⏻ @GusDomel]

More big news in the @BoostVC portfolio:
@K2SpaceCo is partnering with @anduriltech for the Golden Dome program!

[Dylan Morris @Dylan_Morri]

The US needs 1.5 terawatts of new power by 2035.

AI has scaled beyond our ability to build power and the existing power supply chain is the bottleneck

The future demands a new kind of hardware company, building a new kind of Turbine

Introducing: Stone Power @StonePowerUS
🧵1/11

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

☢️@RadiantNuclear's factory license was accepted under 10 CFR Part 70.

That’s the license to handle nuclear fuel. The difference between a warehouse and a real reactor factory.

One of the biggest hurdles in going from demo to business 👇

[Gus Domel ⏻ @GusDomel]

2 epic @BoostVC port co's here (@colossal, @dognosis). Optimism wins! Great read by @packyM

https://t.co/SvgQqb44Mo

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

6 new investments in April.

Energy, Pets, Bio, AI… and Aliens.

Still leading pre-seed rounds every week.

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

In 2021, @AdamDraper called it 🐐

Now everyone’s an “American Dynamism” investor.

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

I still believe will prove to be the most consequential VC of this era

[Dan Gray @credistick]

“If we believe something that the rest of the investment world doesn’t, that is a scarce resource and we must act.”

If Stan Lee had written a venture capital firm into the Marvel universe, he might have picked @BoostVC.

For over a decade, @AdamDraper and @BraytonKey have executed their unconventional strategy, making investments in the boldest ideas from science fiction at a radical pace and scale.

As a result, they have consistently been early to technological and scientific breakthroughs, becoming an invaluable partner to the most ambitious founders and assembling a mighty network in the process.

To illustrate, here's what a few of their portfolio companies are working on at the moment:

- Jet packs
- Dire Wolves
- Space robots
- Nuclear power
- Cryptocurrency
- Brain interfaces
- Biohybrid brains
- Electric hydrofoils
- Enormous satellites

The exceptional performance of their 2016 debut fund (which included investments in @coinbase, Bitcoin and @moltbook) speaks for itself.

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

A case study on @BoostVC’s Fund 1 (2016 - 4.61x DPI) 👇

Grateful to @credistick for the deep dive.

Building venture firms is a long game. This is what one fund looks like over ~10 years.

[Adam Draper ⏻ @AdamDraper]

My lifes work is believing in people. Pretty lucky to get to do it with such a great team @BoostVC

Thanks for understanding what we do @credistick. A great understanding of what we are, and what we do.

[Taylor Sargent @TaylorCSargent]

The @BoostVC team are real ones. Actual contrarians and ahead of so many trends. They deserve every bit of success.

[Gus Domel ⏻ @GusDomel]

So stoked to announce that we’re teaming up with our friends over at @2048vc to host a Deep Tech Pitch Competition on May 28 in Boston as part of Tech Week! Prize is a $100k investment from @BoostVC and 2048.

If you’re working on something hard and futuristic, we'd love to hear from you! We’re looking for founders obsessed with what they're building, and who are looking to change the world and make a Billion+ lives better. Applications close April 24, link below!

https://t.co/Q2krwmYJ7b

@thisiszann @alexiskold @emily_yu

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

Big news from @StarfishSpace!

@BoostVC was the first investor in 2020.

Just months after covid started. When in-person, high capex, & going to space was far from popular.

@AustinLink, Trevor and team persevered and the market is catching up to the future they saw back then 🚀

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

There are dozens of nuclear startups.

There is effectively one shared test slot in the U.S. where you can bring a reactor and go critical without building your own site.

Radiant just got it. For a full year.

[Brayton Williams ⏻ @BraytonKey]

In Q1, @BoostVC invested in 19 (NINETEEN!!!) new Deep Tech companies 💰 (Not April Fools!)

7 of those we were the FIRST VC who said YES 🥇

Looking for more Deep Tech founders in Q2 looking for their first YES 🚀