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Deep-Tech Financing

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Adjacent products can help finance capital-intensive deep-tech development.

Scholl says Boom adapted its propulsion technology into a ground-based natural-gas turbine so it could generate operating data, technical learning, and capital before the passenger aircraft is completed.

Blake Scholl Deep-Tech Financing Source at 17:47

Deep-tech startups should seek smaller prototypes and faster proof points.

Reflecting on Boom's early development, Scholl says the company chose an overly difficult first prototype and would have benefited from simpler product-level experiments that produced multiple opportunities to learn and demonstrate progress.

Blake Scholl Deep-Tech Financing Source at 33:01

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