Pangaea Ventures

“We are investing at Pangaea primarily in the Series A but really what we're looking for is companies that have transitioned from primarily Research and development or scientific discovery into commercial deployment.”

“We spend 75, 80%, maybe more of our due diligence time and effort in really building relationships with and getting to know the management teams.”

“If we think there's. Potential for technology to be truly game changing, but there's a long commercialization road ahead of it, even if there is sort of one partner at the table that might be reflected in, you know, our expectations around valuation on entry o…”

“We've been really fortunate over, you know, the last Decade and a half, especially with our three most recent funds to partner with world-class leading strategic corporate investors, so large industrial and chemical companies as LPs in our funds”

“On the other hand, I think we're gonna see parts of the world take a different, you know, technology development roadmap than we did in North America and the U.S., where there's, You know, advancements that leapfrog that. If you go to India and you're driving …”

“But last March March, 20, 24, we established a physical presence in Japan. We now have an office in Tokyo you know, not only to support our LPs and our corporate strategic partners that are based in Japan, but also to explore that market for net new investment…”

“We often Track management teams and founders for a minimum of a year before we'll start doing due diligence.”

“We haven't yet made any investments in Japan. We are still in the early stages of evaluating that market, you know, building relationships with entrepreneurs there, you know, we've seen some really phenomenal companies and, you know, are running them through o…”