Episode 69: Raising VC for “Deep Tech” Startups in Southern California

Embark Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund focused on “deep tech” – companies with proprietary and highly defensible technology that is a strong competitive barrier. Particularly interested in cyber-security, robotics, advanced manufacturing, materials, and bio/med tech but open to other opportunities that have a highly technical/proprietary core. We invest early (generally first institutional … Continue reading Episode 69: Raising VC for “Deep Tech” Startups in Southern California →

Embark Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund focused on “deep

tech” – companies with proprietary and highly defensible technology

that is a strong competitive barrier. Particularly interested in

cyber-security, robotics, advanced manufacturing, materials, and

bio/med tech but open to other opportunities that have a highly

technical/proprietary core. We invest early (generally first

institutional round) with check sizes between $250k and $1M typically.

Most of our companies are pre-product, and our goal is to get them to

first customer/revenue on our round of financing. Will discuss the

Southern California eco-system for “deep tech” startups and bridging

the gap between R&D; and engineering

BIO:

Peter Lee is the Founding Managing Partner at Embark Ventures, a seed

stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles focused on “deep tech”

companies in industries such as robotics, advanced manufacturing, and

cybersecurity. Prior to entering venture capital, he was the VP of

Product at a venture backed startup in the digital media space. Peter

was a manager with McKinsey and also worked as a product manager at

Microsoft. Peter earned his BS and MS at MIT, and an MBA from Harvard

Business School.

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