Pre-Seed Funding

The Difference Between a Checkable Claim and a Checked One

Two early-stage deeptech companies made news this month with claims worth checking against reality. One got there by getting two rival defense giants to independently decide it was worth backing before it had shipped a single unit. The other got there by naming a specific date on the calendar and daring anyone to hold it to that date. Both are legitimate ways to earn trust at the earliest stage of a company’s life. Only one of them has actually been tested yet.