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It’s been a while (you know, war and stuff), but I’m stepping back into the conversation of the deep-tech entrepreneurial landscape. Let's start with a common misconception: Deeptech isn’t always a “long shot.” More often, it’s a series of technical hurdles that simply need rigorous verification. For the non-technical investor, the secret to avoiding "science projects" is a simple reversal of standard due diligence: Validate the science before the financials. Here is my Fundamentals-First Framework for screening deals: 1. Identify the Core Principle: What scientific truth must hold for this to become a commercial product? 2. Define Make-or-Break Features: Ask the founders for a specific list of technical benchmarks. If these aren't met, the business model is irrelevant. 3. The POC Litmus Test: Validate these points at the lab or university level. Does the manual Proof of Concept fulfill the fundamental principle right now? 4. The Hard Stop: If the POC fails the "make-or-break" points, stop. Don't let talk of "easy scalability" or "lucrative margins" distract you. Send them back to the drawing board. 5. Order of Operations: Only move to commercial evaluation and deeper diligence once the technical viability is proven. This approach filters viable technologies fast, saves massive time, and pushes founders to build with clarity, transforming into more disciplined, milestone-driven development. Deeptech is not about betting on improbable breakthroughs. It’s about filtering for what already works—before imagining scale. Focus on fundamentals first. Excitement comes later. What’s your go-to method for screening deeptech deals? 👇 Share below #DeepTech #VentureCapital #HardTech #FirstPrinciples #DueDiligence #TechInvesting #Innovation #Startups #RAndD #IndustrialTech #ClimateTech #AdvancedMaterials #Engineering #VC #Founders #ScaleUp #Investing #Startups #Innovation #TechInvesting #Engineering #FounderStrategy #MaterialScience #FutureTech

Great to take part in a panel on venture building and discuss how the model is evolving in today’s market. At Flex Partners, we see venture building as a structured way to create companies—combining real market needs from industry, access to applied research, and a systematic approach to validation and execution. As capital becomes more selective and AI accelerates the pace of building, the focus shifts from launching startups to building businesses that reach real, repeatable revenue faster. Thanks to Shibolet & Co. for hosting the event and to fellow participants and panelists Nitza Kardish, PhD Idan Fisher Mati Gill Chai Avital 🇮🇱 Hemdat Sagi Uriel Klar Dror Grof Ruth (Ruti) Arazi Sheffer for the thoughtful discussion. #VentureStudio #InnovationHunters #OpenInnovation #VentureClient #StartupEcosystem #TechLeadership #InnovationStrategy #GIN #globalinnovationnetwork

Great to take part in a panel on venture building and discuss how the model is evolving in today’s market. At Flex Partners, we see venture building as a structured way to create companies—combining real market needs from industry, access to applied research, and a systematic approach to validation and execution. As capital becomes more selective and AI accelerates the pace of building, the focus shifts from launching startups to building businesses that reach real, repeatable revenue faster. Thanks to Shibolet & Co. for hosting the event and to fellow participants and panelists Nitza Kardish, PhD Idan Fisher Mati Gill Chai Avital 🇮🇱 Hemdat Sagi Uriel Klar Dror Grof Ruth (Ruti) Arazi Sheffer for the thoughtful discussion. #VentureStudio #InnovationHunters #OpenInnovation #VentureClient #StartupEcosystem #TechLeadership #InnovationStrategy #GIN #globalinnovationnetwork

What is a startup, exactly? Italy says under five years old with 15% R&D spend. India sets a $24 million revenue cap. The European Commission's first formal definition, published in March, lands at under 100 employees, €10 million in turnover and less than 10 years old. Y Combinator's Paul Graham asserts that a startup is "a company designed to grow fast". In the lastest Dealroom webinar, Head of Ecosystem Growth Aoife Morrin and Head of Insights Orla Browne argue that the hunt for one universal definition is the wrong fight, and that the most advanced ecosystems have already moved past it. The conversation explores what they measure instead. The discussion covers the metrics usually measured by mature ecosystems across the world: venture capital by stage, the source-of-capital mix, graduation rates between funding rounds, combined enterprise value, unicorns and billion-dollar exits, thoroughbreds, bootstrapped success stories and sector-specific deep dives. A live walkthrough of the Dealroom platform shows how to slice these metrics by HQ, founding location, alumni networks and investor type. Audience questions push into university spinouts versus alumni-founded companies, the flywheel effect from successful exits, limited partner data, and the pitfalls of treating revenue growth as a defining metric for deep tech. Worth a watch 👀 Full video here: https://lnkd.in/egaPmtfE

Building and scaling deeptech requires team with diverse capabilities and experiences. It's really great to see A*StartCentral shortlist the technologies and the researchers and then organise events like this to identify potential co-founders and assess potential fit! Providing and facilitating such connections is so valuable as the likelihood of the researcher to have their own connections is so slim! Wishing the team and the event great success.

Deep-tech equates to deep impact for people, planet and prosperity. Here is 12 projects from 15 colleagues. We seek likeminded people from all walks of life to venture build with us. This is ASPIRE ("Aligning Startup Personalities for Innovation Research and Entrepreneurship"). A*StartCentral - we believe in being founders-centric, building cohesive teams that matters and investors would have interest in. In ASPIRE 2025, we have serial entrepreneurs, industry veterans and change makers. Some of the 12 projects: Scroll to find out, submit your interest to create that deep impact. - T-Cells and Cancer - Multi-functional scaffolds for cell growth - Accelerate catalyst discovery for sustainable chemistry - Wearable Artificial Tactile Perception Sensor -  Carbon dioxide to protein platform Ps: This is not a job post. Venture building and startups take gumption. It won't be a walk in the park. Definitely it is gonna be a great ride. A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research          

Your next startup needs to start with the right idea AND the right people. Think: high-intensity, pressure-cooker collaboration to test compatibility before the startup journey begins. At the heart of every deeptech venture is a researcher driven not just by discovery but by the ambition to see their work create real-world impact. To better the odds: 65% of startups fail due to founder conflict (HBR), so we created ASPIRE (Aligning Startup Personalities, Innovation and Research Expertise). It brings together scientists and business professionals through a profiling and matching programme. Designed to assemble the right team and idea. Scroll the below innovators' profiles give have a glimpse into motivations, values, and what truly drives them to build. 👥 15 researchers 📅 2-day programme (25-26 May 2026) 🚀 Seeking co-founders and core team members Check them out now: https://lnkd.in/gmniukU8 Don't miss the deadline: 30th April 2026. ✨ Take a scroll. Find the people you might build with. Success isn’t just about ideas. It’s about alignment, trust, and shared vision. #astartupjourney #deeptech #founders #venturebuildwithASTAR #venturebuild

Nicholas tells the story of how he was negotiating with a large corporate and held the line on price — even as they were about to walk out. I always tell deep tech founders: understand the value you bring to the table. When you have that conviction, you negotiate differently. He shows exactly how it's done.

🧲 Deeptech: plan and execute great to bypass death valley 🧲 👉 In Deepetch, do not underestimate the means to execute on your path. In Deeptech, the breakthrough is rarely the bottleneck. Execution is. What many leaders still underestimate isn’t the ambition of the vision—but the means required to make it happen. ✅ It starts with the positioning. Where your offer sits in the value chain will define everything: your margins, your dependencies, your speed of adoption, and ultimately your leverage to deliver on growth. There is no neutral choice here. ✅ Then comes your posture with early partners. Alpha partners are not just customers—they shape your product, your roadmap, and sometimes your constraints. Choose them carefully, and define the relationship just as carefully. ✅ The hardest transition remains the same: technology → product. A working technology is not a product. Bridging that gap requires a brutal prioritization, a user-centric design only, and the discipline to say no to what doesn’t scale. ✅ Execution also forces uncomfortable decisions: What must stay internal to preserve your edge? What should be outsourced to increase your credibility (de-risk) then move faster? There is no perfect split—but there are costly mistakes. ✅ And then there is anticipation. Deeptech scale-ups don’t just build—they « just » plan, finance, and de-risk ahead of time. Industrialization, regulatory pathways, supply chains, talents: it’s a project and if you wait, you’re already late then you don’t deliver and go back to the board to sahre about. Missed milestone rarely helps a better alignement among stakeholders but forced re-alignment at best. ‼️ Finally, uncertainty is not a phase—it’s the environment. The best teams don’t eliminate it; they design for it. Flexibility, optionality, and resilience are not nice-to-haves—they are just core capabilities. ☠️ Deeptech doesn’t fail because the science is weak. It fails because execution was underestimated. 🎯 Execution is not a detail. It is the strategy, too. I'm Olivier, International executive leader specialized in scaling and transforming deeptech organizations through strategy, execution and operational excellence. #DeepTech, #GoToMarket, #ScaleUp, #TechStartups, #VentureCapital

Clarilo was built from real experience. Our founder Mike Lane-Evans has worked with over 1,500 founders and leaders on communication. Through Forefront, he has helped early stage startups pitch to investors, helped enterprise leaders manage change, and helped teams that were fracturing find a way back to each other. The same pattern came up across all of it. People knew what they wanted to say. They just could not always get it out in a way that landed. Or they had built something genuinely important and could not make others feel the importance of it. Or their company had grown and somewhere in that growth, the voice had thinned. Clarilo is the answer to that problem at scale. It captures the communication DNA of a company and the individual voice of every person in it. Not as a one-off exercise. As a living foundation that every piece of communication is built on. The companies we are launching with are at different stages. Some are pre-series A. Some are at 80 people and growing fast. What they share is that communication has become something they can no longer afford to leave to chance. Five days until our first cohort gets access on 4th May. We are onboarding our waitlist now. Website coming soon. #Clarilo #Launch #Communication #Founders #ScaleUp #AI #BrandVoice