Investor: ~25% of startups I see are robotics firms buying hardware with the priciest equity
antavedissian · x · 2026-09-12
Investor antavedissian notes that 25% of the companies he reviewed this year are robotics companies, and nearly all of them buy hardware using venture equity — the most expensive capital a startup can raise — for assets that should be debt-financed. Thread follows.
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