Category: Nanotech
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Zentek (ZEN.V) took a years long path to figure out its incredible biotech potential
Today I found myself going down an investment rabbit hole, chasing information about a company that, to be honest, is wallowing, and has for a while. Unmarketed. Unexplained. Unsimple. Unloved. The company is Zentek (ZEN.V). Back in the day, it was an exploration play known as Zen Graphene Solutions that was more focused on developing…
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![Core Story: FendX Technologies (FNDX.C) repels and kills pathogens and viruses]()
Core Story: FendX Technologies (FNDX.C) repels and kills pathogens and viruses
We went after this company as a client because there are three things about it that make me swoon. 1: The CEO has done it all before, in this industry, and has more knowledge about her domain than most 2: The product is needed, necessary, cutting edge, and quickly developing with their academic partners 3:…
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![Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG.V) produces laboratory-grade graphene from methane gas]()
Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG.V) produces laboratory-grade graphene from methane gas
Eight years ago, Physics World published an article announcing that graphene was a “miracle substance” so strong that a sheet of graphene the thickness of “Clingfilm” could support the weight of an elephant. “Graphene is a layer of carbon just one atom thick and since it was first isolated in 2004 its remarkable electronic and…
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Core One Labs (COOL.C): Out of the ashes, a new business model and supportive shareholder base
In my experience with the North American public markets, few companies and executive teams got more lucky with their shareholder base than Lifestyle Delivery Systems. Their initial pitch was simple – they’d put extracted cannabis on thin film strips for easy and precise ingestion – and I, along with a ton of others, shoveled money…
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Three non-weed deals you don’t know: ParcelPal (PKG.C), Clear Blue (CBLU.V), and Titan Medical (TMD.T)
If I was getting paid by the number of pitches I hear, I’d be making a lot more money than I do. Often, they’re terrible. And I include ‘just okay’ in the terrible column, because if your investment pitch isn’t lights out amazing, it’s death. Sometimes I hear pitches that I really love, but the…
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Chinese delegation inspects Nano One’s (NNO.V) unsexy technology
In the 1990s, a Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, invented the term disruptive innovation. Marketing people loved it. Some products (Airbnb, Smart phones, Uber, Netflix) earned the label. Many companies employed the term as a sloppy way to say, “we are different”. “Over the years, marketers and mainstream media co-opted the term, “disruptive innovation” and drove…
