材料科技有望成風(fēng)投新前沿
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????風(fēng)投家們正在擔(dān)負(fù)起新的使命：站在新科技前沿，尋找能夠?qū)⑦@些新科技完美商業(yè)化的企業(yè)家。但瑟古?庫茨曼認(rèn)為，關(guān)注材料科技的風(fēng)投公司太少了。而材料科技是推動(dòng)下一代軟硬件公司成功的關(guān)鍵因素，為此，他創(chuàng)立了一家新的風(fēng)投公司來填補(bǔ)這個(gè)空缺。 ????“互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和社交媒體最近炒得沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)，但普通大眾卻忽視了一點(diǎn)，軟件的發(fā)展始終會(huì)受制于硬件。”庫茨曼解釋說。“如果看看硬件的發(fā)展，迄今所有的成就都是如何把器件做得更小，越小越好。但不可能一直小下去，它會(huì)遇到自然極限，比如宇宙的量子特性或能量密度等。因此，我認(rèn)為會(huì)有一場(chǎng)革命，由此將產(chǎn)生一批新的贏家。” ????庫茨曼這家新的風(fēng)投公司名為Quantum Wave基金，將專注于投資那些量子科技（即亞原子級(jí)技術(shù)）開發(fā)公司。目前，這家公司正在為首只基金募集1億美元，其中3,000萬美元已經(jīng)到位（主要來自庫茨曼和他的合伙人）。公司總部位于波士頓，另一家辦公室位于莫斯科。 ????Quantum Wave基金尚未進(jìn)行任何投資交易，但庫茨曼表示，可選的項(xiàng)目很多。他說：“有一筆投資已經(jīng)快敲定了。” ????譯者：早稻米 |
????Venture capitalists are charged with being on the cutting edge of new technologies, and finding the entrepreneurs who can best commercialize them. But Serguei Kouzmine thinks that too few VCs have paid attention to the material sciences that enable the next generation of software and hardware companies, and has formed a new firm to fill the gap. ????"With all of this hype over the Internet and social media, the general public overlooks that software can only go so far as the hardware allows," Kouzmine explains. "And if you look at the hardware, all of the gains so far have been about how to make it smaller and smaller and smaller. But you can't go smaller forever, because you start to hit natural limits like the quantum nature of our universe or energy density concentration. So I think a revolution is coming, and with that will be a new class of winners." ????Kouzmine's new shop is called Quantum Wave Fund, and will focus on companies developing technologies suitable for quantum technologies (i.e., tech at the sub-atomic level). It is seeking to raise $100 million for its debut fund, with $30 million already in hand (mostly from Kouzmine and his partners). The firm is headquartered in Boston, with an additional office in Moscow. ????Quantum Wave has not yet done its first deals, but Kouzmine reports a hearty pipeline. "We're getting pretty close to one," he says. |
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