Champ Suthipongchai

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Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures, a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis.

Champ Suthipongchai

To master deep tech investing, a VC fund manager must understand market opportunities that are growing in size and at a rate that cannot be ignored.

Choosing the right deep tech fund manager: 4 essential questions for investors and founders

A venture fund maintaining some allocation for follow-on investments is not unheard of. But should VCs do this?

3 reasons to maintain a follow-on allocation

At the Series A stage, VCs want to know that they can pump money into a product that will start going into the market.

How to prepare a hardware startup for raising a Series A

Traditional VCs are still stuck with their now low-margin businesses, unable to move forward and invest in the next big thing: deep tech.

Software investors must (re)learn these 3 ideas before getting into deep tech

While there’s no one right way to go about fundraising, there are a few wrong ways — and failure is a wonderful teacher.

3 mistakes to avoid as an emerging manager

Just as a customer pilots the product, companies should pilot their most important hires whenever possible.

3 ways to hire well for your startup

Big problems make room for big returns, and while I don’t presume to have a silver bullet solution, here are three ways deep tech founders can ensure their time in…

3 ways deep tech founders can climb out of pilot purgatory

The bigger the impact, the bigger the problem — and likely the bigger the market opportunity and financial return. Impact is where the problems are.

Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit

One of the greatest problems facing the construction industry remains a lack of labor, making automation a necessity for moving forward with ambitious national infrastructure projects.

Investment in construction automation is essential to rebuilding US infrastructure