Venture Capital

For decades, venture capital chased the fast and the frictionless. Software startups, with low upfront costs and lightning-speed product cycles, fit the bill: build a minimum viable product, launch it, tweak it, scale it, then repeat. But as Natalya Wallin sees it, the software heyday is over. “Software may no longer be the default goldmine,” she says, not in terms of value, but in where early-stage funding is flowing.Humans are now in the era of deep tech, hardware-heavy, science-driven, and often inspired by the intelligence of nature itself. From circular...