# The NanoLab archive

Selected writing from nanoREV — NanoLab's original deep-tech blog.

Before NanoLab covered R&D funding across every deep-tech field, it ran **nanoREV** — a blog on the business, funding, IP, and regulation of nanotechnology. Selected pieces are preserved here: dated in their specifics, but often still sharp on how hard science gets financed and protected.

- 2008-05-19 — [Is Nanotech Venture Capital Misplaced?](/archive/is-nanotech-venture-capital-misplaced) — A 2008 look at why deep-tech venture capital flowed toward materials platforms over nearer-term applications — and why the VC return-horizon mismatch still shapes hard-tech funding today.