White Paper: Generative Venture Studios to boost frontier tech
This white paper is brought to you by AM2 (Pierrick Bouffaron, Antonio Castro Neto and Florian Doetzer) and Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific (Ernest Xue, Xinyi Tow). AM2 is a Singapore-based venture studio that creates and strengthens science-startup projects in the advanced materials and advanced manufacturing fields. Join an incredible community building the future 🔥🤖
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The white paper explores the existing gaps in the developmental pathways of frontier tech startups and the most relevant model for frontier tech startup creation. In doing so, AM2 and Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific present the venture studio as an emerging framework with attributes important to building strong frontier tech startups and boosting such ecosystems. With the right resources and incentives in place, venture studios efficiently reframe the dynamics between time to market, resource allocation, and capital structures that frontier tech startups need to become the next unicorns.
The turn of the 21 century has brought about the accelerated digitization of the global economy. Among an abundance of high tech, startups and fundraising, one indicator has remained stable: nine out of ten startups still fail in their first two years of existence.
In this context, Singapore is no exception. Over the last decade, more than 200 incubation and acceleration structures have been created in the Little Red Dot. Accelerators and incubators provide startups with timed support including advisory, expertise and infrastructure. They work closely with local investors who provide financial resources, such as venture capital funds, family offices and business angels.
This has worked well in the digital space, but we have yet to see the same results for frontier technologies. We believe the dual vision of supporting startups — constrained timing on the one hand, money on the other — generates discontinuous, incomplete and ultimately insufficiently effective coverage of the needs of frontier tech entrepreneurial projects. Financial support is challenging as investors favor low technical risks. The local frontier tech ecosystem is still nascent and coming to terms with how to adequately support the kind of big idea, research-driven innovative solutions Singapore needs to be developing.
The venture builder model — aka ‘startup factory’ — seeks precisely to rethink this relationship and fill the space. By enacting a much more hands-on and collaborative approach, venture builders actively make investments in frontier tech projects safer while supporting entrepreneurs who need more time to develop disruptive solutions.
This white paper explores the venture studio model. In doing so, we present the venture studio as a new generative framework central to boosting frontier tech ecosystems. Seen by many as an emerging asset class, venture studios efficiently reframe the dynamics between time to market, resources allocation, and capital structures that frontier tech startups need to become the next unicorns.
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