Brayton Williams ⏻
@BraytonKey
Co-Founder of @BoostVC ⏻: Lead Pre-Seed rounds for Deep Tech (crypto, space, bio, AI, robotics, VR, SciFi). Advisor @Etherscan. BOD @unstoppableweb @OctaneAI.
1/ @BoostVC has raised $90m, our largest fundraise yet! We believe Sci-Fi/DeepTech startups will be the most iconic, world changing and valuable companies of the future. We want to be the first check for those founders 💰 adamdraper.vc/p/boost-vc-cel…
MEGAWATT IN A BOX? This high-temperature gas reactor being developed by @RadiantNuclear could be a potential replacement for diesel generators. Radiant is one of two companies selected to test its fueled reactor experiment in DOME — the world’s first microreactor test bed.
"Venture Capital is simple - Invest in great people doing important things, and hold for a decade." - @AdamDraper
Q2 @BoostVC LP update out today 🚀 Highlights: - 17 new investments - @RadiantNuclear raises $165m - @livekit raises $45m - Launched a Bio Residency - 609 intros made between portfolio and VCs (Q1+Q2) - Bitcoin soars past $100k - And biggest win is still🤫 On to Q3! LFG!
Pre-Seed and Seed founders are usually focused on the top 25 brand name VCs when raising. But there are 1,000 other VCs that most have not heard of, have money and are much more likely to invest. Get that 💰
Keep your eye on @JackSoslow and team. BIG things coming 🚀
Big update: I've left a16z and started a company! At a16z, I evaluated thousands of AI companies from seed to scale. This taught me something crucial: innovation is exciting, but true transformation - embedding AI into the core of our economy - is an entirely different…
1 single company (@nvidia) is larger than every single cryptocurrency combined.
Excited for @BoostVC to play a small piece of funding the massive @VardaSpace vision 🚀🛰️💊🧬🧪
Today we’re announcing two pieces of news: 1) We raised $187 million Series C led by @NatCapCentral and @ShrugCap. 2) We’re expanding into a new lab space to begin work on biologics. Soon, space reentry will be ordinary and drugs made in orbit will be part of everyday care.
This investment has defined my career. The network I built from this one investment is priceless. The obsession with the Bitcoin rebellion is priceless. The understanding of how markets evolve is also priceless. "At some point the world will be on one financial infrastructure"…
My son beat me to the best investment of the decade. @Brian_Armstrong walks into my office to pitch @Coinbase. My son, @AdamDraper was there and we love the pitch and love Brian. I want in immediately, but I'd already invested in @CoinLab (a startup with a similar premise).…
In Q2, @BoostVC invested in 17 new Deep Tech companies 🧠🧬🤖 8 of those we were the FIRST VC who said YES 💰 Looking for more Deep Tech founders in Q3 looking for their first YES 🚀
Spray and Pray is a cargo cult pejorative that is no longer true and today only a justification for VC laziness Numerically from our dataset of 5000 startups, Monte Carlo simulations indicate larger portfolios at YC result in much higher median multiples on invested capital
Early stage VCs should (probably, on average) make more investments. Lots of objections, some of them very valid. But the general disdain for "spray and pray" is pretty anti-math. Link to the full argument as laid out by @credistick in following post
Early stage VCs should (probably, on average) make more investments. Lots of objections, some of them very valid. But the general disdain for "spray and pray" is pretty anti-math. Link to the full argument as laid out by @credistick in following post
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Top founder mistake? Spending too much, too early. We built Reddit on $72K, and our biggest expense was rent. Today it’s cheaper than ever to build. So why are pre-seeds burning $2M out the gate?
Boost.VC backed @ShiftBioscience early and constantly upped our ambition- and courage-level. 5 reasons to apply for the 2-week Bio-residency if you’re ready to increase lifespan (1) is leaning in to high-risk high-reward opportunities when…
I believe that the startups that will cure cancer, enlongate life 50 years and give humans super powers are starting today! So we are launching a Bio Residency @BoostVC to bring the best builders in Bio together! APPLY NOW!!!! adamdraper.vc/p/the-boost-vc…
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Design app Figma just filed to go public Its S-1 shows $70M held in Bitcoin ETFs, and board approval for another $30M BTC purchase via USDC
FIRST new reactor design tested in 50 years 🤯
BIG news! @ENERGY has just picked Radiant to test at @INL next year - the first new reactor design tested there in almost 50 years.
"I look for startups that are unlike anything I have seen before" Almost no one does this, let alone 30 years of constantly searching for something NEW. Congrats on 3 decades @FutureJurvetson and many more to go! 🐐
Today is the 30-year anniversary of my venture capital career. My younger self would have found that hard to fathom. Reflecting back, there was a simple algorithm embedded in my investment strategy that has made it all the more exciting and engaging over time — I look for…
I passed on @Upstart , @lyft , Ethereum presale and @RobinhoodApp 3 times. 15 years in I'm still figuring out this VC thing. I just love the game so much. For love of the game.