How can you pitch/assess something that hardly anyone can understand?
We have hosted the second edition of Carbon13‘s Climate Tech & 🍕 together with Honda Innovations and Techspace. This time with a focus on deep tech.
As always with this series of events, we bring both, the investor perspective and the founder perspective to the stage. How can you pitch deep tech solutions as an early stage founder and how can business angels and VCs assess a deep tech startup and team when the technology is hard to grasp and built on uncharted territory.
Many thanks to Dong (Xiangdong) Zhao, who revealed learnings from the pitch process of fungtional.bio (acceleration of bio-manufacturing R&D with virtual cells). Dong works with 20 variations of her pitch depending on who is in front of her.
And a big thanks to the great panellists Iris ten Have, PhD, Maxi Pethö-Schramm, Melina Sánchez Montañés, Aurianne Legris & Moritz Vohler 💚
Thank you for taking part in the “cardboard experiment” and making it clear why deep tech investing is worthwhile despite higher development risk (longer initial development phase), technology risk (new technologies don’t always work as expected), team risk (academic founders may have less strong commercial skills) and great capital intensity.
Big thanks also to Philip Ellis and Julien Fredonie – great that you were with us.
We are convinced that deep tech innovation and entrepreneurship play a crucial role in the fight against hashtagclimate hashtagchange. More of this requires strong bridges between science and business as well as a lot of courage and trust along the entire investment chain. 🏋♀️ Let’s keep working on it.
The next Climate Tech & Pizza event will take place in September.
