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		temuze on Dec 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from com... Can anyone name a company that raised significant money pre-launch in a party round and that turned out okay? Color, Clinkle, Theranos, Magic Leap... they all have that in common. I'd be interested if there are counter examples.

new299 on Dec 9, 2016 | [–]

What's a significant amount of money?

Solexa raised 130MUSD pre-launch: http://41j.com/blog/2016/01/a-solexa-story/

Quite a new life science/biotech companies do.

bhouston on Dec 9, 2016 | | [–]

I think biomedical companies are very different than technology companies in terms of product launches. So not really comparable.

MorePowerToYou on Dec 9, 2016 | | [–]

Don't forget about uBeam! https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/05/14/1548248/former-em...

pixelcloud on Dec 10, 2016 | [–]

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