(1/n) Talked to a founder developing a non-invasive Brain-Machine interface. Outlandish, but would be world-changing if they succeed.

Unfortunately, the founders are technical, don't have the presentation, sales skills, or network. I have seen many such amazing deep techs fail.

(2/n) Accelerators mostly reject high-risk, deep-tech companies. VCs they talk to think "they are too early". Most of these deep-tech founders finally take up full-time jobs and work on it on the side.

From experience, their tech will likely never see the light of the day.

(3/n) There are many famous accelerators/firms that incubate and coach founders of software companies.

Are there any firms that do it for deep-tech/hardware?

Today, these deep-tech/hardware companies languish in NSF grant land and mostly perish.

(4/n) I know HAX incubates companies manufacturing hardware. IndieBio for biotech companies. IP Group/Kairos do it to some extent for the universities that they have partnered with.

A few others incubate "hot fields" e.g. quantum computing, AI chips.

Probably missing many here

(5/n) I think, there is a world-positive, high-ROI incubation model possible, where the deep tech incubator brings on these startups, coaches them about the presentation, customer discovery, and even helps them hire a CEO to set them on a path to commercialization.

@Jai__Malik