Demo Days are super important for both the investors and the startups. I started my investment career by attending demo days at lots of locations. For the investor, the key is understanding what the heart beat of the industry is, and for the startup it’s about getting amazing exposure to as many investors as humanly possible. The Deep Tech Demo Day is no different! We love highlighting the heart beat of deep tech through our online portal, twice a year.

The Deep Tech Demo Day on April 4th, hosts 30+ startups nominated by 10+ Venture Capital funds in order to establish the heart beat of deep tech to the investor world.

At Boost VC we believe that capital should be in the hands of founders building at the peak of human endeavor. Our belief is that Deep Tech is the pinnacle of human endeavor and fortunately there are many VCs who specialize in assisting these founders. For Deep Tech Demo Day, our mission is to bring all those supporters together and give investment access to the industry!

Another reason that comic books are such an integral part of Boost VC's culture is the values that they often embody. Many of the best comic books are built on a foundation of optimism, hope, and persistence, and these are values that we strive to uphold in our work. From the earliest days of Boost VC, we have been committed to supporting and empowering entrepreneurs, and the stories and characters in comic books serve as a constant reminder of that mission.

On Monday, November 14, we hosted our first DeSci Pitch Day at Boost VC, and couldn’t be more excited about the energy of the DeSci community! We had over 50 great teams apply, of which 10 teams were selected to share their DeSci startups at the pitch day. To assess the pitches on their vision and viability, we had 4 judges, including Jocelynn Pearl (Ultra Rare Bio), Gus Domel (Boost VC), Patrick Joyce (ResearchHub), and Patrick Malone (KdT Ventures).

Each crash has been driven by actors over-promising, and pushed by individuals driven by the desire to make a short term dollar. And every time this has happened, we have new people who truly believe in the long term vision, and those people end up building new great technology that encourages the vision of P2P finance.

This interdisciplinary skill set divides teams not into - Hardware vs. Software” but into “What problem do we have to solve today.” Some individuals are obviously more talented in specific tasks, but its interesting to see an entire market built on agility rather specialty.

10 years, 300+ investments, $200m AUM and 4 funds later we pride ourselves on being the first check into incredible founders creating a Sci-Fi future. We have backed everything from jetpacks (2x!), comic book marketplace, many leading crypto startups, a heart rejuvenation platform, VR fitness, Nuclear fission and Space planes. No idea is too crazy.

Right then and there, during that realization we shot off an email to Marc Andreessen and Tim Draper - both who have lived through multiple market swings including the Internet, and 2008. We felt that these two titans could share experience and insights that could boost hope in the market.

The next important network for us to build will be in the future of Health. We believe there is a Sci-Fi future where you are proactive around your healthcare. Where no one is blindsided by disease. And there will be devices that monitor your health persistently rather than asynchronously from the comfort of your own home.

I still smile whenever a startup references “Cockroaching,” to me. They may not know it, but Boost VC in some small way impacted that phrase to be used over the last 7 years. To be a cockroach is to build in the winter, and build for the sake of building. There’s a state of mind that is created during hard times where you build to solve the problem that you set out to solve. Blinders on. Focus gets strong.