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BoxGroup partner Claire Smilow says she spends time on university campuses looking for promising people and early clues to where technology is heading. Her investment firm backed Cursor before it became a major AI coding company, Fortune reports.
Why it mattersSmilow says she is now paying attention to fields including robotics and quantum computing, and that repeated student interest in brain-computer interfaces prompted her to watch that area more closely. That is an investor’s account of how she spots opportunities, not proof that a campus conversation predicts the next big market. It’s a useful glimpse of how one investor looks for founders before the company pitch decks arrive.
Discuss: Are universities a good early-warning system for emerging technology, or are investors mostly hearing what they already hope to find?
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