by SwePep | Sep 27, 2016 | News Articles
As a serial entrepreneur, Bob Curtis has started 10 companies. He’s succeeded and failed and succeeded. “You learn more from the failures than successes,” he says. What he has not succeeding in doing, though, is retiring. He’s at the age when he should be retired, but...
by SwePep | Sep 12, 2016 | Press Releases
Sarcos Robotics, a global leader in the development of dexterous industrial robots for use in unstructured environments, announced today it has secured funding from a group of top tier strategic investors including Caterpillar Ventures, GE Ventures, and Microsoft...
by SwePep | May 23, 2016 | News Articles
A big fund that invests in another fund, that’s quite unusual if you ask me. KPN Ventures, the venturing arm of KPN, has an agreement with Cottonwood European Technology Fund (CETF) to become one of its cornerstone investors. CETF is a venture capital fund specialised...
by SwePep | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog Articles
Cottonwood Technology Fund never signs a NDA. Cottonwood reviews around 800 pitch decks per year. If the NDA-period is three or five years we need to track thousands of NDA-agreements. We are not willing to pay the legal fees to review all those agreements and we...
by SwePep | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog Articles
A perfect pitch deck is very important to get the right attention. Cottonwood reviews around 800 up to 1,000 pitch decks per year. Cottonwood’s main criteria are: strong IP, disruptive technology (which can be used in multiple product lines and/or multiple...
