Ron Bauer
@ronbauer888
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I’m a Venture Capitalist and Investor with 20+ years experience. I teach people how to raise money and go public. I help guide founders on their journey.
London, England
Joined June 2020
Trump's plan for $40 trillion debt? Sell the furniture. Every startup founder learns one hard lesson early. You cannot fix a burn rate with more loans. Eventually, you have to cut costs or sell assets. The US Government just learned this at $40 trillion. For decades, we relied
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Trump's Greenland comments are not about real estate. They focus on Arctic logistics. Strategic investors missed this critical connection ↓ The 2025 National Security Strategy signals a hard return to the Monroe Doctrine. Washington is moving to lock down the Western
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Trump's plan for $40 trillion debt? Sell the furniture. Every startup founder learns one hard lesson early. You cannot fix a burn rate with more loans. Eventually, you have to cut costs or sell assets. The US Government just learned this at $40 trillion. For decades, we relied
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Crypto stole the spotlight while a $1.7 trillion energy shift began. - Venezuela has reserves of 300 billion barrels of oil, more than any other nation on earth. - US domestic production is currently slowing down. - The 2025 National Security Strategy prioritizes LATAM
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If you've been sitting on an IPO because of regulatory burden, your timing just got better. The traditional path was broken. - Excessive disclosures. - High legal fees. - ESG mandates unrelated to revenue. But that ends in 2026. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is cutting the red
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Trump's Greenland comments are not about real estate. They focus on Arctic logistics. Strategic investors missed this critical connection ↓ The 2025 National Security Strategy signals a hard return to the Monroe Doctrine. Washington is moving to lock down the Western
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Crypto stole the spotlight while a $1.7 trillion energy shift began. - Venezuela has reserves of 300 billion barrels of oil, more than any other nation on earth. - US domestic production is currently slowing down. - The 2025 National Security Strategy prioritizes LATAM
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Most people aren’t noticing this yet. EdTech funding just surged 5x in H1 2025, with India pulling in about $120M across 11 deals, up from $22M in H1 2024. The shift is clear: the money is flowing not into K to 12 consumer apps, but into upskilling platforms and B2B SaaS for
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Robotics funding in 2025 is not behaving the way most people think. Robotics pulled in 6B dollars in the first 7 months of the year. The money is flowing to one type of team. The ones where software drives the breakout, not the hardware alone. Logistics. Healthcare.
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Robotics funding in 2025 is not behaving the way most people think. Robotics pulled in 6B dollars in the first 7 months of the year. The money is flowing to one type of team. The ones where software drives the breakout, not the hardware alone. Logistics. Healthcare.
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Most investors are looking in the wrong direction. A $50B resource tech wave is forming and almost no VC fund is positioned for it. Mining and oil operators already spend more than $5B each year on tech that cuts emissions, lifts efficiency, and strengthens supply chains. Yet
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Most VCs missed where 2024 exits peaked. Industrial scale green tech deals crushed software valuations. Why? Strategic acquirers oil and gas firms, utilities, automakers chased emissions cuts, compliance, infrastructure fit. That drove ~35% average premiums in green tech M&A
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$12.5 billion was only the starting line for clean tech. Clean energy VC funding hit a record $12.5 billion in 2024, up 8% YOY. Overall VC funding across all startups grew just 3% in the same period. Solar and wind remain core, but battery storage, green hydrogen, carbon
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90% founders chase “speed”. Their FinTech exits pay the price. What acquirers actually buy? 📉 Bank and payment-processor buyers care about data moats, licences, compliance and reliable economics, not how fast your app moves. If your FinTech bet is solely on speed, you risk
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Most analysts are still looking at tokenized assets with outdated tools. The numbers alone should reset the conversation: - Security tokens hit $1.9B in 2024 and are projected to reach $2.4B in 2025. - Web3 teams raised $7.7B across 600+ deals in Q1 2025. This is not fringe
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Most founders chase the wrong signals in Series B. The real outliers in 2025 share the same pattern. Not hero ARR spikes. Not TAM storytelling. Not LTV to CAC swings that change by 2x depending on the tab. The winners show discipline that compounds. NRR above 110%. CAC
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Most founders chase the wrong signals in Series B. The real outliers in 2025 share the same pattern. Not hero ARR spikes. Not TAM storytelling. Not LTV to CAC swings that change by 2x depending on the tab. The winners show discipline that compounds. NRR above 110%. CAC
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AI biotech is moving faster than most investors realize. AI startups pulled in more than US$100B in 2024, up more than 80 percent year over year. Biopharma raised about US$26B across 400+ rounds, yet the capital is concentrating in AI driven drug design. Treat AI biotech like
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Most nutraceutical investors focus on the wrong signals. Influencers do not protect a business. Packaging does not create retention. Hero SKUs do not survive category cycles. After reviewing 120+ deals from 2020 to 2025, the real drivers were clear: Categories with structural
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Most spin outs don’t fail in the lab. They fail in the market. Breakthrough science exists at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and Harvard. Yet many discoveries never reach a paying customer. The real breakdown is simple: Great IP Weak commercial readiness Teams overestimate
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