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A Unified Government-VC Approach to Crossing the Valleys of Death
08.10.2020In this white paper, Orin Hoffman, a Venture Partner at The Engine, proposes a new approach to help early-stage Tough Tech companies cross their most challenging valleys of death. As…
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Perspectives in the time of COVID-19
04.22.2020When we set out to build The Engine a few years ago, we said that we were going to solve the world’s greatest problems with breakthrough technologies. For a venture…
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On Growing Companies, Not Programs
10.31.2019On Growing Companies, Not Programs The Importance of Government-VC Collaboration to Launch and Grow Companies Critical to the US National Industrial Base Download the PDF whitepaper here. The Need for…
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A Recipe for Innovation
06.18.2019Sometimes founders open a door, not just to a new and potentially transformative technology, but to an entire industrial sector. Adam Behrens, the CEO of Cambridge Crops, is one such founder.…
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The Founder’s Paradox
04.9.2019What is it that makes a founder extraordinary? A previous job? A previous lab? Those things are not as important to me as that paradoxical world they inhabit known as…