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Tuesday, May 24 2022 - 23:27
AsiaNet
America's Frontier Fund to Convene the Quad Investor Network
ARLINGTON, Va., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

America's Frontier Fund [ 
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] ("AFF"), a non-profit deep-tech investment fund, announced today that it will 
lead the Quad Investor Network (QIN), a new initiative that aims to bring 
together leading technology investors, executives and founders from four 
democratic nations to strengthen cooperation and joint investment into emerging 
technologies and supply chain infrastructure.

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Governments participating in the May 24 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a 
strategic endeavor between Japan, India, Australia, and the United States, 
jointly welcomed [ 
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] opportunities to expand capital for critical and emerging technology 
investments across the Quad. 

"To ensure that emerging technologies and supply chains advance democratic 
values and economic prosperity around the world, the United States must deepen 
its engagement with allies and partners," said Gilman Louie, CEO and co-founder 
of America's Frontier Fund. "We can still determine how these technologies 
impact our future—but only if we act now. The QIN is one critical pathway for 
jointly developing the emerging technologies that will drive the next wave of 
global innovation."

The Quad Investor Network [ 
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] will be an independent private consortium of trusted technology leaders from 
the Quad nations with the aim of identifying and developing bold initiatives to 
strengthen joint research, development, and investment for foundational 
technologies, including microelectronics, 5G/6G, quantum, advanced energy and 
materials, and biotechnology.        

"We have an opportunity to harness the talent, capital, and markets of the 
world's largest democracies to accelerate the path to commercial scale for the 
technologies of tomorrow," said Jordan Blashek, President and co-founder of 
America's Frontier Fund. "We look forward to working with many of the Quad 
nations' most skilled technologists and investors to advance strategic 
cooperation across India, Japan, Australia, and the United States."  

The QIN will be managed by AFF as a critical initiative to develop deep 
technology capabilities with allies and partners.  Led by venture capitalist, 
and former Commissioner of the National Security Commission on Artificial 
Intelligence, Gilman Louie, AFF is an independent non-profit organization with 
a bipartisan board of technologists, investors, and national security leaders.

About America's Frontier Fund:  America's Frontier Fund ("AFF") is the United 
States' first deep-tech investment fund focused on securing America's 
technology leadership for a new era.  AFF's team of scientists, investors, and 
national security experts has a proven track record over four decades of 
delivering both strategic advantage and outsized investment returns. As a 
mission-focused non-profit, AFF partners with startups, industry, universities, 
labs, and governments to invest in the next wave of deep-tech companies and 
platforms for U.S. and allied advantage.

SOURCE  America’s Frontier Fund

CONTACT: Gayle von Eckartsberg, Juleanna Glover, media@americasfrontier.org 
https://www.americasfrontier.org

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