Episode 4: Baukunst Co-Founder and General Partner Kate McAndrew | Investing in the Creative Technologist — The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward
The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward

Episode 4: Baukunst Co-Founder and General Partner Kate McAndrew | Investing in the Creative Technologist

June 28, 2022 · 35 min

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A venture investor explains what it actually takes to fund hardware and deep tech ideas into real products.

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Episode 4: Baukunst Co-Founder and General Partner Kate McAndrew | Investing in the Creative Technologist
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In this episode

  • How investors evaluate creative technologists and frontier tech bets
  • What bridges the gap between makers with ideas and capital to build them
  • Why the intersection of design and technology attracts serious investment
  • How the hardware startup community looks from the investor side of the table

About this episode

Wrapping up our theme of DesignLab’s Community, this week Majenta is joined by the brilliant Kate McAndrew, a Co-founder and General Partner at Baukunst, a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building companies at the frontiers of technology and design. Prior to founding Baukunst, she was a Partner at Bolt where she invested at the intersection of the digital and physical world for over seven years. She is the founder of Women in Hardware.

After 3 episodes highlighting makers and designers like Jayy and Sophy, and entrepreneur engineers like Kwabena, Kate is the perfect guest to tie our theme together, representing the much appreciated investor side of the innovator community, without whom big ideas and experimental technology could not be developed and scaled for us to enjoy. We're so happy Kate could join us to help bridge the gap between makers and investors.

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The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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