Recognise the time it takes to return (likely exceeding eight years) in the early stage technology sector.
It moved faster than most VCs into the early stage startup investing sector and was a prime mover behind European startup accelerator Seedcamp.
Nexus invests in early stage companies across sectors in India and US, and manages $600 million in assets.
Even at this early stage of deployment, the sector employs 10,000 people, and has generated an average day's-worth of electricity for 3m homes.
Final Frontier's cramped headquarters are testament to the very early stage of its business sector.
He added: "District 10 has been designed specifically to meet the needs of these early stage businesses in the sector that require flexible accommodation which will allow them to grow as part of a vibrant creative industries community".
It will make early stage investments across three sectors – health, workforce development and financial services.
In April 2007 he was approached by Norwegian firm, PGS, with a $275m offer that was one of the highest prices ever paid for an early stage technology company in the sector.
At present, most companies in the private sector are early stage start-ups that involved heavily in R&D rather than commercialization, many of them younger than five years old.
I would like to see them come out in support of tech, and I think there's a new industrial policy that looks like it's being formulated at the moment, and I think it's important that technology and early stage businesses in the tech sector are fully supported as part of that.
