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

So now I'm going to go into deep tech.

and I've got space, robotics, industrial, I've got healthcare, I've got bio, right?

The heterogeneity of deep tech is so difficult for one GP to actually cover that.

And so that's why we're seeing if you're gonna move from a world where a lot of things look alike and I'm not, there are...

If I could be one-tenth the investor Mamoun is, that would be a great career for me.

But what I'm saying is moving from SaaS over to deep tech and having to become an expert in semiconductors, NIH getting atoms from NIH to create a new compound, then turning around and getting a KUKA arm and going over to PRC or Vietnam.

Those things are really difficult.

And I think it just takes some time for these teams and investors to actually grow their bench.

So probably the hottest spec right now, Samir, if you ask any of the headhunters, is not people in our generation.

It's actually that principal who's the hot up and comer in deep tech, because that person can go to pretty much any fund.

The

The number of firms that I see pinging Sunil or myself or Guy about co-investing, these are people five years ago.

I've done nothing but connected hardware, IoT.

Nobody thinks IoT is cool.

The people now that want to talk about deep tech give you an invite to a dinner is unbelievable.

I was going to hit that point, but actually I was going to say something different, which is, so what is an inherent moat in deep tech?

You already have the hardcore technology, but the other one is the specialty path to distribution.

So fill your boots if you just graduated from undergrad and you're going to do a company that wants to contract with the U.S.

government.

Like that is just so dang hard to understand.

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