Things we’d love to invest in (Thesises)

The best thing is to be surprised by entrepreneurs who have found new spaces, categories and innoventions. If you don’t see your category on this list, don’t let it prevent you from reaching out.

However, there are some trends, categories, and industries that we are drawn towards, due to some combination of experience, interest, or belief. If you see yourself in this page, definitely please do reach out.

DeepTech, Hard Tech, Energy

We’re not afraid of looking into deeptech or hardtech startups, including Nuclear, Nanotechnology, and Quantum Computing startups. We believe in the coming of the second industrial revolution and would love to work on drawing it closer.

Utopian Technologies

This could mean a lot of different things since we made it up. But we know it when we see it.

Content, Community, & Commerce

Good things happen when you combine business models. Especially when you find yourself collecting the riches in niches. Al has built one of the finest implementations of content+community+commerce businesses in the world, and we believe there are many more of those out there.

Ecommerce, and Ecomm Enablement

Al Doan is an Ecomm pioneer, and has a strong track record of investing and and supporting fantastic ecomm businesses.

Request for Startups

Things we would love to fund in particular:

☀️🤘🏼 Solarpunk - Whatever this means to you. If you think it’s solarpunk, we want to see it.

⚰️ DeathTech - An overlooked area for innovation.

🥦 Personalized Nutrition/Health - StitchFix for my love-handles. Bring it on.

🚀 Space - Are you taking advantage of the existence of the new economics of Space access thanks to SpaceX? We’d love to hear what you’re doing.

☢️ Nuclear - Lets get back on the Henry Adams Curve. Bonus points if you’re working on this somewhere with lower-than-american regulatory overhead.

☢️ 🤝 Nuclear Supply Chain/Ancillary - We think tool and service providers for Nuclear Energy companies are going to have a good time, and we’d like to have a good time with you.

⚛️ Nanotechnology - Lots to learn in this area, but understand it to be a key piece of the second industrial revolution. Walking that Feynman path? Let’s hold hands.

🪢 Quantum Computing - Is this a real thing? If it is, we’d love to invest in it. Seems like it will be important to keep us on Moore’s Law.

👃🏼 Olfactory Computation - Our sense of smell sucks compared to other animals, so we underestimate it. But computers with the smell-sense of dogs who can smell emotions, poisons, drugs, and more would be coooool.

🌳 Climate Tech / Environmental - Lets capture some carbon and save the world.

🦾 Human Augmentation - If it's in a star wars movie, it sounds fun to fund.