Deep Tech
Deep tech describes companies built on substantial scientific or engineering advances, where the risk is whether the technology works at all, not only whether customers want it.
Why It Matters
These companies need patient capital and long development cycles, which sits awkwardly with the timetable of a standard venture fund.
Related Terms
- R&DResearch and development is a company's spending on creating new products, processes and knowledge, from early research to engineering a product for manufacture.
- Quantum ComputingQuantum computing uses the behaviour of quantum systems to perform certain calculations that conventional computers cannot do efficiently.
- BiotechnologyBiotechnology is the use of living systems and biological processes to develop products, from medicines and diagnostics to materials and agriculture.
- Venture CapitalVenture capital is private investment in early-stage and high-growth companies, in which investors take an ownership stake in exchange for capital and accept that most holdings will fail while a few return the fund.
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Turkiye Wants Istanbul To Become A Global Gateway For Tech Investment
More than 100 investors and $100 billion of assets arrive to look at what the ecosystem built.
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