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• Reading Note

Flow Batteries Resurgent?

I’ve been pitched by numerous flow battery companies in my days as a deeptech/climatetech investor. The promise of the technology has always been: * Long cycle life (the number of charge-discharge cycles you can do before the performance degrades) * Easy to scale: you want 2x the storage? Just get 2x the electrolyte! * Low fire risk: most flow batteries use water-based...

• Essay

Why Tech Success Doesn’t Translate to Deeptech

Source: Eric Hamilton Having been lucky enough to invest in both tech (cloud, mobile, software) and “deeptech” (materials, cleantech, energy, life science) startups (and having also ran product at a mobile app startup), it has been striking to see how fundamentally different the paradigms that drive success in each are.