Nate Williams

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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Deep Tech Gold Rush: Smart Boom or Future Bust? · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

I'll take a shot.

Effectively, my career post-grad school last 20 years has been deep tech.

It used to be called Internet of Things.

Before it was called connected hardware, it was called semiconductors.

I think the classical definition that we use for hard tech, deep tech is similar to what Guy mentioned.

First, it has to contain hardcore technology.

So white leather sneakers, that's not hardcore technology.

A dating app, not necessarily hardcore technology.

So hardcore technology.

Second is it's hard to build.

So Cerebus just went public after 10 years.

Like taping out a chip is extremely hard.

That's hard to do.

and by the way i was reading the spacex prospectus on the plane here to philly if you do it right it's hard to replicate so it's hardcore technology hard to build hard to replicate and this is a thing samir you and i've talked about offline which is it may involve hardware for

For the past 10 years, many VCs have conflated deep tech with hardware, and that was some of the reticence previously to this bull rush we're in right now in deep tech.

They just didn't want to do hardware.

But if you call it physical AI, let me tell you, there's a whole bunch of Sandhill firms that want to do physical AI.

Something I would bring up just with a plus one to Samir and Hannah for the Beyond Summit was the fact that

$3.7 trillion of capital are going to go into privates.

So Samir, you said that on your keynote with Mamoun.

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