David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? This is the “utopian” part of techno-utopianism.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

Finding soy milk used to be a chore and milk alternatives captured less than 1% of the market a decade ago. Aleph Farms , an Israeli startup, is setting its sights on the first steak grown in a lab using animal cells. . Look-alike markets . Now, they represent 13% of the market, and come from everything from peanuts to peas.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

We had a good 4 year run with this company and built up some valuable intellectual property, which we sold to another company in 2012. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. Two years later I spun out NanOasis, my first startup.

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