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If you're an early-stage #manufacturing firm looking for financial guidelines to make sound decisions on #capex spending, Tony Moses, entrepreneur-in-residence at At One Ventures, has some ideas for you. And as it turns out, the type of product you make has a huge impact on your #strategy. https://lnkd.in/eySpfZqz

Bio-based materials are hitting the road... on the inside of the new KIA EV2. 🚘 From day one, we were sold on Simplifyber’s vision to change how soft goods are made. And now we get to witness another important step on the way... Through the partnership with KIA Motors, the company is bringing its bio-based material innovation to the automotive world. In the newly unveiled concept for the EV2, Simplifyber Fybron™ (a cellulose-based material) is what the vehicle's dashboard and door panels are made of. Because its manufactured with a 3D-molded process, similar to injection molding for plastics, the end result is a durable, ready-to-install component with minimal waste and reduced assembly time. This isn’t just about sustainability, it’s a blueprint for scalable, cost-effective, circular manufacturing. Congrats to Maria Intscher-Owrang, Philip Cohen and the entire team at Simpliyber. #Mobility #Biomaterials #FutureOfManufacturing #MaterialInnovation

“The main limitation doesn’t always come from the technology itself or the process itself. It comes from the fact that our materials today, and our processes today, are just already so cheap.” – Danaé Robert Johnson In this conversation with Matias Peire (GRIDX), Danaé (At One Ventures) explains one of the toughest challenges for the bioindustry: competing with the efficiency of current materials and systems. But there’s hope—and progress. 🌱 Feedstocks are evolving 🧪 Media is improving 📈 Breakthroughs are happening 🚀Just like At One Ventures, we see exciting potential in the Bioindustry space. In this area, several startups in our portfolio are working to replace petrochemical products with bio-based alternatives—and developing breakthrough technologies to make these solutions cost-effective. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet them at the GRIDX Biotech Startups US Roadshow 🚀 https://lnkd.in/dtSfK8CH

All we can say, Colossal Biosciences, is just wow. What started as a crazy idea is now an important reality. A milestone that means millions…. of species that can be saved (or in this case, brought back) from extinction. #biodiversity #goodtechnotbigtech

April news from At One Ventures, ready for your casual perusal... 🎖️Team activity, speaking engagements, and well-deserved promotions 🌁 Join us in San Francisco during Climate Week, plus other industry events 🧥 Why we invested in Ravel (Fund II) 📺 Portfolio companies in the news, including a CNN documentary feature

American manufacturing 🏭 is back in the national conversation, writes Tony Moses, but it’s a proposition vastly easier said than done. "The challenge is that manufacturing requires physical assets, dictating substantial capital outlay before you earn a dime from them. It’s a risk that’s difficult for businesses of all sizes to address; however, for an early-stage company, overspending will kill your company before it even has a chance." Read Tony's byline in the manufacturing trade publication Industry Week, where he lays out financial guidelines for early-stage firms to make sound decisions on CapEx spending. https://lnkd.in/eySpfZqz Hint 🤫: The type of product you make has a huge impact on your strategy.

If you’re a startup founder about to pitch a VC… read this now.

Don't know who needs to hear this today, but... "We are going to put our entire lives into working on climate, and the health of the planet will be worse at the point that we die," says Tom Chi. "It's basically inevitable." But think about the folks that pushed for civil rights, or for the abolition of slavery, or the many other things that were worth fighting for over generations, he implores. It was not just within one job, not just within one lifetime, but over multiple lifetimes. Those generations worked hard, but the state of things were worse by the end of their life. "They did not waste their time working as hard as the did, and we, too, are not wasting our time," he says. Because we are in the "deep solve." We are fully immersed in the problem and leveraging our resources to fix it, to climb our way out and make things better, as we know they can be. #climatecrisis #solutions

Plastics. They really are miracle materials, cheap, plentiful, and highly versatile. So how do we make them even better? Engineer them to also not be a burden on the environment.

Don't know who needs to hear this today, but... "We are going to put our entire lives into working on climate, and the health of the planet will be worse at the point that we die," says Tom Chi. "It's basically inevitable." But think about the folks that pushed for civil rights, or for the abolition of slavery, or the many other things that were worth fighting for over generations, he implores. It was not just within one job, not just within one lifetime, but over multiple lifetimes. Those generations worked hard, but the state of things were worse by the end of their life. "They did not waste their time working as hard as the did, and we, too, are not wasting our time," he says. Because we are in the "deep solve." We are fully immersed in the problem and leveraging our resources to fix it, to climb our way out and make things better, as we know they can be. #climatecrisis #solutions