I'm not particularly working in that type of space, but we are generalizing here. If you look into startups in the medical, pharmaceutical, chemical and energy

I'm not particularly working in that type of space, but we are generalizing here. If you look into startups in the medical, pharmaceutical, chemical and energy fields, you will see very high startup costs while sharing the high risk attached to software startups. Even in software though, there are companies working on solving difficult problems that would require the work of scientists, engineers and administrators for 1-2 years. This would place you into that multi-million dollar category pretty quickly.