风投家们正在担负起新的使命：站在新科技前沿，寻找能够将这些新科技完美商业化的企业家。但瑟古•库茨曼认为，关注材料科技的风投公司太少了。而材料科技是推动下一代软硬件公司成功的关键因素，为此，他创立了一家新的风投公司来填补这个空缺。

    “互联网和社交媒体最近炒得沸沸扬扬，但普通大众却忽视了一点，软件的发展始终会受制于硬件。”库茨曼解释说。“如果看看硬件的发展，迄今所有的成就都是如何把器件做得更小，越小越好。但不可能一直小下去，它会遇到自然极限，比如宇宙的量子特性或能量密度等。因此，我认为会有一场革命，由此将产生一批新的赢家。”

    库茨曼这家新的风投公司名为Quantum Wave基金，将专注于投资那些量子科技（即亚原子级技术）开发公司。目前，这家公司正在为首只基金募集1亿美元，其中3,000万美元已经到位（主要来自库茨曼和他的合伙人）。公司总部位于波士顿，另一家办公室位于莫斯科。

    Quantum Wave基金尚未进行任何投资交易，但库茨曼表示，可选的项目很多。他说：“有一笔投资已经快敲定了。”

    译者：早稻米

    Venture capitalists are charged with being on the cutting edge of new technologies, and finding the entrepreneurs who can best commercialize them. But Serguei Kouzmine thinks that too few VCs have paid attention to the material sciences that enable the next generation of software and hardware companies, and has formed a new firm to fill the gap.

    "With all of this hype over the Internet and social media, the general public overlooks that software can only go so far as the hardware allows," Kouzmine explains. "And if you look at the hardware, all of the gains so far have been about how to make it smaller and smaller and smaller. But you can't go smaller forever, because you start to hit natural limits like the quantum nature of our universe or energy density concentration. So I think a revolution is coming, and with that will be a new class of winners."

    Kouzmine's new shop is called Quantum Wave Fund, and will focus on companies developing technologies suitable for quantum technologies (i.e., tech at the sub-atomic level). It is seeking to raise $100 million for its debut fund, with $30 million already in hand (mostly from Kouzmine and his partners). The firm is headquartered in Boston, with an additional office in Moscow.

    Quantum Wave has not yet done its first deals, but Kouzmine reports a hearty pipeline. "We're getting pretty close to one," he says.