Dr. Richard Caro leads all of TangibleFuture’s projects. Depending on the scope of the project, and the specific industry expertise it calls for, we put together a small team drawn from our resource network of deeply experienced industry veterans.
Richard G. Caro
Dr. Richard G. Caro has over 30 years of experience at the intersection of technology and business — as startup CEO; startup CTO; scientist/inventor; angel investor; and advisor to emerging growth companies in fields such as agetech; medical devices / healthcare; digital health; telecom; & photonics.
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TangibleFuture
We help entrepreneurs and business leaders create and grow businesses based on innovative science and technology — faster and with less capital than they would do without us.
Increase your chance of success with our "roll-up-the-sleeves" form of interventional help.
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What's your Challenge?
We can help:Maximize your "Return on Sweat"
Avoid the Valley of Death
Grow your Startup Value Faster
Improve "M&A" Outcomes
Find New Growth Sources
Commercialize Technology Better
What we do
Our approach involves an unusual blend of analysis, strategic advice, and hands-on intervention.We give advice. If you need us to, we can help implement it. Sometimes we even take on functional roles for a time, if the management team needs augmenting.
What qualifies us to help?
We've been there; we've helped others get there; we've learned from mistakes (ours and theirs); and we've lots to share about what has and has not worked.Most importantly, we like to roll up our sleeves and make things happen, rather than give you advice and walk away.
Client Feedback
"Richard Caro (via TangibleFuture) ... helped Omada successfully navigate a $4.7MM Series A financing, [and] helped us develop our clinical strategy. If you have the chance to work with Richard, take it. He will provide innumerous value."
Digital Health Startup
"TangibleFuture brought a fresh assessment of our company and the markets in which we compete. This thorough and analytically objective assessment helped us develop a strategic plan and implementation strategy that created a tidal change in the direction we were headed and the ultimate market value of our company. Richard Caro is one of the most valuable advisors with whom I have worked throughout my career."
NASDAQ-listed Communications Components Company
"I am ... enormously impressed by your capacity to contribute to Neuro-Insight’s development at so many levels. These range from your astute observations regarding basic science issues to the practicalities of translating scientific discoveries into commercial products."
Neuro-marketing Startup
"Luckily, we retained TangibleFuture to go out and dig deeply into the market and its future trajectory, and learned that customer requirements and the competitive landscape were changing rapidly. Even though there was a current need for the product we planned to develop, by the time we were able to finish product development the market would have shifted and customers would be buying quite different, next generation products, for which our technology offered no compelling advantage. With the benefit of hindsight, things have played out pretty much as TangibleFuture said they would. As a result of TangibleFuture’s work we shifted our efforts elsewhere, and have saved a great deal of money."
Korean Photonics Business
Tools & Resources for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Over the years we have developed a variety of tools, lectures and articles designed to help entrepreneurs and managers create and grow their companies; and innovators turn their ideas into profits.
You can access much of this material in the Resources section of this website.