I am working on fundraising and administration for a robotics venture. Very little work goes on engineering subjects at present, more often things like patent law, corporate administration, strategy, network build-out and the present penultimate goal fundraising for an aggressive scale go to market autonomous factory. However, the prior eight years have given me an amazing opportunity to study all manner of engineering subjects from mechanical to structural, electronic to electrical, production and fabrication through operations research, logistics and supply chain. I now have a very 'grass roots' view of venture administration, cross-disciplinary R&D and commercialization that is globally informed and very difficult to gain in any context. While significant yield remains at this stage speculative, nevertheless it is very interesting!