I work with a network of accredited investors who invest in seed stage and early growth stage companies for equity or variations of convertible notes. An accredited investor is defined as someone with at least 200k in annual income or 1m in net-worth excluding the equity in a home. I help these angels identify life science and technology opportunities in the Midwest and gather financial interest to syndicate investments. VisionTech has been around for 8 years and was founded by Oscar Morales.
I’d welcome an opportunity to talk more about becoming an investor or pitching to our group if you are a start-up.
Ben Pidgeon has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Moats & Multiples in Hardtech with Venture Declassified
June 8th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 4 mins
What actually changes when you raise money for a hardware company instead of a software one? In this Hardtech Podcast crossover with the Venture Declassified crew (Jacob Schpok of Elevate Ventures, Mike Kelly of Start Something Ventures, and Ben Pidgeon of VisionTech), Grant plays the founder and asks three active investors to grill him on how hard tech is underwritten differently at pre-seed, seed, and Series A: the metrics, the moats, the multiples, and why the same traits that make hardware slow and expensive early are exactly what make it defensible later.