Boost VC invests $10k-$25k across 50 startups per year
Adam Draper · 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC · Feb 24, 2016 · at 5:22
Adam Draper is the founder and CEO of Boost VC, a venture capital firm and accelerator focused on frontier technology.
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“It's an accelerator program. So we do two, two tribes a year, two sessions a year that are three months, they're three months long where we provide housing office space and we invest in the companies and we invest between 10 and 25,000 dollars. To 25 companies twice a year. So we do about 50 deals a year in, in this model where we provide housing and office space.”
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