FAQ

Starting in the late 18th century, five industrial innovation waves changed the world, each energized by a new resource and shorter than the previous wave, with the fifth wave merging computing with communication to satisfy global consumer needs and wants as never before. We believe that the next wave, just begun, will be energized by technologized science to deliver sorely needed solutions in such areas as healthcare, sustainability and trust.

A scientist entrepreneur is one who combines the curiosity, persistence and deep expertise of a lab-trained scientist with entrepreneurial passion for developing and delivering solutions for acute unmet needs of people and organizations. Famous scientist entrepreneurs include Intel's Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, HP's Bill Hewlett and David Packard, TSMC's Morris Chang, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Coursera's and Insitro's Daphne Koller, Genentech's Herbert Boyer and many other scientists who envisioned novel product and service categories to spawn disruptive industries.

Unlike incubators or accelerators that support existing startup teams, the venture studio is a distinctive approach to business creation, designed to foster rapid development and iteration of new companies. The Unbox Studio provides first-time scientist entrepreneurs with a unique blend of resources, infrastructure and expertise that maximizes success in creating and funding their startups.

The Unbox ventures studio is open to any industry sector that is ripe for disruption by deep-tech startups aiming at positive global impact – e.g., health, energy, sustenance, habitat and trust.

Development of deep-tech solutions requires expertise and traits which are highly correlated with successful completion of a PhD degree. Moreover, since unboxing applies the scientific method to entrepreneurship, the transition from scientist to entrepreneur tends to be smoother and faster than for non-scientists.

The core elements of the unboxing methodology are: a. Disruptive solution imperative, b. Targeting a worthy problem, c. Principled Customer Validation, d. Surpassing investor expectations.

For first-time founders, unboxing develops traits and proof points investors seek – leadership, persistence, agility and velocity – thus compressing the time from idea to seed funding. If you want to be the one-in-a-hundred first-time founder who grabs investors' attention, you must think and act like a serial founder – unboxing is the fast and sure way to get there.

Yes – we have a green light route for serial entrepreneurs seeking scientific advisors and intellectual property. Give us a shout, we'd love to meet and get you rolling fast and easy.