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Independent Investment Banking in Robotics, Automation, and AI with Cascadia Capital’s Firdaus Pohowalla

Manufacturing Happy Hour · 8 Feb 2022 · 43m

What this episode covers

Firdaus Pohowalla, Managing Director at Cascadia Capital, explains the role of independent investment banking in the robotics, automation, and AI (RAAI) sector. He details the rise of Robotics as a Service (RaaS) as a preferred business model for warehouse automation and logistics, while highlighting challenges like capital intensity and hardware integration. Pohowalla also demystifies startup funding rounds, emphasizing that the Series B is critical for proving scalability and that 'backlog' (purchase orders) is a more important metric than 'pipeline' for investors.

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Cascadia Capital, Cascadia Acquisition Corp, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Dexterity, Locusts, Rapid Robotics, A3
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