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.
"@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)
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.
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
☢️@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 👇
“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.
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.
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.
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
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 🚀
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.
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 🚀