Monday evening was a number of enjoyable. Alongside Voyager Capital, Plug and Play Tech Center hosted Seattle’s inaugural DeepTech Founder Show & Tell that includes Paul Mikesell (Founder & CEO, Carbon Robotics),…

Monday evening was a number of enjoyable.

Alongside Voyager Capital, Plug and Play Tech Center hosted Seattle’s inaugural DeepTech Founder Show & Tell that includes Paul Mikesell (Founder & CEO, Carbon Robotics), Austin Link (Co-Founder & CEO, Starfish Space), Ezra Feilden (Co-Founder & CTO, Starcloud), and Byron Boots (Co-Founder & CEO, Overland AI) for a {hardware} showcase and panel. Building throughout house, protection, ag, and robotics, these guys symbolize one of the best that the Seattle DeepTech ecosystem has to supply – all have both raised $100M+ or crossed $100M in income over the previous few months.

Three issues I took away:

☔ Tenure is essential to Seattle’s expertise edge – High density of software program and {hardware} engineers who stick round at their firms, ~3.5 years common tenure versus ~1.5 years within the Bay Area. In {hardware}, that continuity compounds.
🚀 The greatest founders are choosing their bets & constructing accordingly – Starcloud is designing for a world the place launch prices collapse this decade. Starfish Space assumes at the moment’s launch prices will stick and engineers round them. Same business, reverse bets, each defensible. In deep tech, your mannequin assumptions are your technique.
☑️ The outsider benefit is underrated – No one on Byron’s founding workforce had a protection background. No one on Paul’s had agricultural expertise. In deep tech, not understanding what’s “impossible” may be a bonus.

Seattle is perhaps often called the “cloud capital,” however a few of the most enjoyable work at the moment is being completed within the bodily world. On Monday, we acquired to see it up shut and in individual. Special because of Austin Guyette, Francisco Gomez Olmedo, and Okay&L Gates for making this doable. And try GeekWire’s protection of the occasion (hyperlink under)!

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