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Fundraising for deep tech — Celine Halioua
celinehh.com
More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise.
A few successes:
• Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures
• Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs
• Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by Atomic
Our latest Signature Block essay is on venture studios...
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Three start-up firms that support this type of analysis are Quid, based in San Francisco; Recorded Future, based in Boston; and Signals Intelligence Group, based in Israel.