Why We Invested in ESTAT- A clutch that changes the game of mechanical motion

ESTAT’s novel technology for robotic clutches and actuators is dramatically lighter and lower power consumption than existing alternatives. It promises to transform existing robots and enable entirely new classes of mobile robotic applications.

H2U - When AI and Robotics meet Hydrogen

To overcome the supply constraint in green hydrogen production and applications, H2U provides a technology to discover new catalysts at a much lower price. H2U uses AI and data mining to search for high-performing catalysts to replace existing ones like Iridium and platinum. Once it has a list of potential candidates, it synthesizes these samples through H2U’s high throughput system.

Automat Solutions - how to find the “golden eggs” of EV batteries through AI and Robotics

It takes 7-14 years of R&D and 3-6 years of validation to discover new materials manually. The self-driving platform will reduce the discovery time from 10-20 years to 1-2 years. Automat Solutions provides the technology that enables companies to find new materials and generate recipes for batteries in a much shorter time.

Look Over Here, it's the future of AR

Augmented reality (AR) technologies enable the projection of virtual content into the visual field of a viewer. Here how member from TSVC is seeing the future of AR and its hardware infrastructure.

Keeping a growth mindset, staying optimistic, founding advice from Michael Shieh

How AI will reshape our day-to-day search experience

Metaphor.so, a 2021 TSVC investment, is "building the world’s most advanced search engine with language models.” Metaphor uses NLP and AI technologies to redefine search, initially in vertical segments. Metaphor's technology uses context to get closer to searchers' actual intent,

Revery.ai - Virtual Dressing Room and Its Metaverse Potential

Revery.ai recently joined TSVC’s portfolio, enriching the firm’s vision in deep-tech and computer vision. Revery.ai was founded in October 2020, by three talented computer science PhD students from UIUC. 

How to spot a unicorn: Don’t grow it — synthesize it!

Our investment in Ginkgo Biowroks - the largest bio-tech IPO in the history

NFT and Its Investment Opportunities

Despite the market crash, there are several emerging sectors that NFTs can prove to be very useful for. NFTs are an important aspect of decentralized finance; they can tokenize assets that are otherwise difficult to liquidate and trade; lastly, they appeal to the human desire for the need to be a part of a community and own valuables. 

PSA: Why there needs to be an institutional shift towards female founders

Systemic change needed for founder diversity

How an emerging VC can survive and thrive among the industry’s behemoths

Competition in today’s VC industry is hot and will only get fiercer. How can emerging VC survive?

“A few yes’s in a sea of no’s” - Founding advice from Bertrand Irissou

Givelist: A New Type of Giving Vehicle

A new family member in our Alpha Program and how it will disrupt the givings behaviors of Philanthroteens.

What Hype Trends in History Can Say About the AI Hype Today

How we see the hyped AI space differently?

What early stage opportunities we see by dissecting ARK Invest (Part II)

(Part II) We will share our thoughts on the underlying investment thesis for ARK’s top-position holdings, combined with our views on the early stage opportunities.

Carta and Cap Tables: How One Simple Idea Created a New Market

How one simple widget created Nasdaq for private markets?

Lessons in Grit: How Airbnb and Zeus Living Survived the Covid-19 Catastrophe

Founder resilience is one of the most crucial inputs in determining startup success. But how do you build this resilience?

What Early Stage Opportunities We See by Dissecting ARK Invest (Part I)

We will share our thoughts on the underlying investment thesis for ARK’s top-position holdings, combined with our views on the early stage opportunities. 

10 Reasons Why We Invest in Early-stage Startups

If investors are able to see deals mature before investing and know there is a higher likelihood of the startup not failing, then why does anybody bother to invest in early-stage startups? Particularly if it is such a high-risk market to be involved in and any pay off is likely to only come five, ten or even fifteen years later. 

Back to the Stone Age: The History of Social Media Leading to Clubhouse

Why Clubhouse becomes our new cave of contemporary stone age? We analyze this new social media from culture and technology perspectives.