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When Uncle Sam Turns Venture Capitalist, What Could Go Wrong?
When Uncle Sam Turns Venture Capitalist, What Could Go Wrong?
Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations,
The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a venture capital arm at the Department of Energy and other agencies. In the movies, VCs almost always score big through their early investments in future...
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