Mens et Manus et Moolah: Financing Deep Tech Featuring Professor Andrew Lo
MIT Sloan Reunion May 31, 2025 "Deep" or "hard" tech is a recently coined term used to describe complex scientific and engineering challenges that, if solved, can transform society. Examples include drug development, fusion energy, bio- and geo-engineering solutions to slowing/reversing climate change, asteroid mining, etc. In this talk, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor of Finance Andrew Lo presents his latest research on the common features underlying all deep-tech ventures such as the "Valley of Death" or the "Missing Middle" and how new financing tools and business models can be used to translate breakthrough theories into widespread commercial practices.
About Andrew Lo
Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo (Chinese: 羅聞全; born 1960) is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese-American economist and academic who is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo is the author of many academic articles in finance and financial economics. He founded AlphaSimplex Group in 1999 and served as chairman and chief investment strategist until 2018 when he transitioned to his current role as chairman emeritus and senior advisor.
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