*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Dear Esteemed Partners and Friends, It’s been a wonderful quarter – as innovative, exciting, and progressive as one would hope. Brilliant entrepreneurs we seed-financed in the last four years are leading 70+ companies in promising, innovative verticals including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Deep Technology, and Healthcare. The overwhelming majority are on a fast track, […]

By Brent MacDonald Understanding blockchain starts with understanding bitcoin, or at least what it is trying to be. Bitcoin as a token, is a digitally-native, non-government issued currency. On the other hand, Bitcoin as a blockchain network is a proposed evolution of money; it is an evolution of the system humans have adopted as a […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal at Rising Tide Twelve, formerly Opus 12, headquartered in Berkeley, California, has developed a device that recycles carbon dioxide (CO2) into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. The company’s technology bolts onto any source of CO2 emissions, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transforms that CO2 into some of the world’s […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal at Rising Tide Medical imaging for all — it’s a clarion call for change that grows louder every day. It comes from patients seeking greater access to imaging that will help them live healthier lives. It comes from families seeking answers as to why their children are sick. It comes […]

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Dear Esteemed Partners and Friends, It’s been a wonderful quarter – as innovative, exciting, and progressive as one would hope. Brilliant entrepreneurs we seed-financed in the last four years are leading 70+ companies in promising, innovative verticals including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Deep Technology, and Healthcare. The overwhelming majority are on a fast track, […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal @ Rising Tide VC Quanergy Systems’ mission is to create intelligent, efficient, and affordable LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) solutions for automotive and IoT applications to enhance people’s experience and safety. The company has developed the only 100% solid CMOS LiDAR sensor, built over the past number of years using […]