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I'm surprised to see the founder describing their company as Deep-Tech, and I wonder if that description hindered their ability to raise. Not saying it isn't a
by pedalpete 5y ago
I'm surprised to see the founder describing their company as Deep-Tech, and I wonder if that description hindered their ability to raise. Not saying it isn't a technical product, but as per Wikipedia, deep tech is "based on substantial scientific or engineering challenges".
- xiaolingxiao 5y agoI think it's the DSL aspect. For anyone who's every try to write a language, it's not trivial. The people who do PL research in academia are typically mathematicians in the comp-sci department, whereas those who do machine learning ( which is "deep-tech") are usually engineers practicing statistics (poorly).
- matijash 5y agoYeah, it definitely isn't a standardized term. I've also been hearing "hard tech" but then got a feeling it has more and more been used for hardware projects, although I dont think that that was the original idea. We actually never insisted on being called deep-tech, but we realised that was how others characterized us, especially when talking to investors (building a new programming language sounds pretty scary, although in our case it is a non turing complete DSL).
- pedalpete 5y agoFair enough. I was in a similar boat with my metaverse, pre-metaverse start-up https://ayvri.com https://ayvri.com - but a lot of what we were talking about was building 3D virtual worlds with AI. We didn't go looking for the deep tech label, but it was applied to us.