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Financing Capital-Intensive Deep Tech — Partech's Simone Riva
Simone Riva, Partner at Partech, analyzes the conditions under which venture capital creates value or destroys discipline — why VC is not validation, why capital efficiency matters, and why founders should treat a raise as a means, not a milestone.
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Why this matters for deep tech: For capital-intensive deep tech the “when to raise” decision is existential: raise too early against unproven hardware or physics risk and capital destroys discipline; too late and the window closes. Riva's rules matter most where the…
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