Venture Capital
According to Fundable1, fewer than 1 in 100 startups are funded by angel investors. Funding from venture capitalists is even rarer at about 1 in 2,000 (0.05%) companies. For a firm that prides itself in proactively finding advanced materials investment opportunities (as described here by Pangaea GP Keith Gillard), that means we’re screening a lot of companies that we don’t end up investing in. By the numbers, many of these companies often don’t end up raising outside investment from other VCs or angels either...