Opinion

December 16, 2020

Do we really need ‘deeptech’?

Policymakers, VCs and founders in Europe seem to have decided that we need deeptech. We don't — or at least, not for the reasons they think.


Nicolas Colin

5 min read

‘Tech’ is a misleading term. It suggests that tech startups compete based on the specific technology they research and develop — those “proprietary algorithms” and all that.

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Nicolas Colin

Nicolas Colin is cofounder of VC firm The Family. He writes a regular column for Sifted

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