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Ask HN: Please list a recently angel-funded tech pioneering company
6 points by eagleal on Aug 6, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Hi,

as the title says list here all the companies funded by angel investors, you think will pioneer future technology (please biotech too).

I'm not listing one because right now I can't think of any (this is why I posted this). After you've all submitted, I hope the results would help some entrepreneur (I'm expecting a pattern of some sort).



Well ... this is what I view as the biggest problem with the current US funding situation.

"Pioneering", the stuff that truly breaks new ground---I use FPGAs as my major example---tends to need a lot of money. Much more than the typical angel pattern of 5-6 figures. E.g. SpaceX, it was initially funded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, $100 million out of his own pocket.

(And even then there are limits to their pioneering, what they're seriously focused on is driving down the costs, something that hasn't really been seriously done before.)

Except for unusual angels like him, as far as I can tell we aren't "inventing the future" anymore.

Don't know about biotech though. How much of what they're doing is truly pioneering?


How would you know? It takes a while to recognize a technology as revolutionary, and angels typically get in early.


Fluidinfo looks like it may be one.




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