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The Fund That Bets on People Who Read Physics Papers for Fun
Eric Schmidt's Palo Alto firm has spent fifteen years funding PhDs who want to rebuild the physical world - from SoFi and Uber to gene editors and metal-bending robots. Its bet: the boring industries are about to move fast.
Shine Capital Is Betting $600 Million on the Ideas Between Categories
The New York venture firm calls itself a team of "lateralists." Behind the language is a practical model: lead early, cross categories and stay close as founders turn technical possibility into a company people want.
The Goldman Banker Who Built a Different Kind of Cap Table
Deborah Jackson left Wall Street to fund the founders it kept overlooking. A decade later, Plum Alley has put $100M-plus into CRISPR, wastewater sensors and autonomous freight - and turned its members into the people writing the checks.
The Fund That Bets on Lab Coats, Not Hoodies
A female-founded merchant bank in Singapore is quietly wiring together capital, regulators and non-dilutive grants to push quantum, climate and brain-health science out of the lab - and it is measuring the results in billions mobilized, not just term sheets signed.