Cool Frontier Tech Companies — Come See!

Ellen Chang
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

On Friday, July 28th, the Frontier Tech Investment Network (FTIN) met online for its inaugural monthly investment pitch event. Established by LightSpeed Innovations, the aerospace startup factory, the network connects founders commercializing emerging Deep-Tech technologies with experienced investors offering Seed and Series A funding.

Four startups pitched and fielded questions at the hour-long opening event: Accel Robotics (accelrobotics.com), building a 360° perception engine integrated with intelligent assistants for retail; Fabric8Labs (fabric8labs.com), creating the world’s first 3D metal printer using electrochemical additive manufacturing; GroGuru (groguru.com), developing a wireless soil monitoring system to increase crop yields at reduced costs; and NVdrones (nvdrones.com), bringing to market a software-as-a-service (SAAS) platform for commercial drone fleet management.

The investor group comprised of over 21 early-stage venture funds, as well as individual angel investors, with expertise ranging from aerospace and defense, to enterprise software, to biotechnology. Several have engaged the founders in follow-up conversations.

The Frontier Tech Investment Network will continue to host companies working on a broad set of technologies, including but not limited to robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, digital manufacturing, augmented and virtual reality, space 2.0, and systems biology.

Startups interested in participating can apply here (https://goo.gl/forms/0BCWk9vfU6AKLYaN2). Our website is www.lightspeedic.com.

Additional questions, please contact Ellen Chang, Kaan Pinar, Greg Howard, Doug Hegebarth at info@lightspeedic.com (goes to all of us).

Ellen Chang

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Accelerating and Investing in Deep Tech Founders! https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenmchang/

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