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Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm
With over 25 years of experience in recruiting leadership teams and boards for advanced science and engineering companies, Chris Reichhelm, CEO of Deep Tech Leaders, offers an insider’s perspective on the pivotal decisions and strategies that shape the success of startups embarking on the lab-to-market journey.
This podcast doesn’t just celebrate innovation for its own sake; instead, it highlights what it truly takes to build, scale, and sustain a successful deep tech company. Through conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and other key players, Chris will explore the management disciplines, cultures, and behaviours essential for commercialising and scaling deep tech innovations. Each episode will aim to unravel the complexities behind turning rich, research-intensive IP into commercially viable products across various sectors like computing, biotech, materials science, and more.
'Lab to Market Leadership' is for those who are ready to learn from past mistakes and successes to better navigate the path from innovation to market. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an investor, or simply a deep tech enthusiast, this podcast offers valuable lessons and insights to enhance your understanding and approach to building groundbreaking companies that aim to solve the world's biggest problems and improve our way of life.
Learn more about Lab to Market Leadership: www.deeptechleaders.com
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Podcast Production: www.beauxhaus.co
Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm
Latest Episodes
Why Customer Traction Matters Far More Than Another Perfect Experiment
In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Ben Dolman, Founder and ex-CEO at Holiferm, to unpack how a PhD project became a commercial biosurfactant business serving more than 200 customers worldwide.Ben explains w...
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From Eureka Moment to Industrial Scale with Jamie Walters
In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Jamie Walters, Co-Founder, Board Member and VP of Strategic Transactions at Calyxia, to explore what it really takes to move deep tech from the lab into commercial markets.
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How to Spot a Deep Tech Founder Worth Betting On with Adam Draper
In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Adam Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, for a conversation about what seed-stage investing really looks like when the company is attempting something that may not...
The Deep Tech Founder’s Guide to Going Public Through a SPAC
In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Brandon Sun, Managing Director and Head of SPAC Investment Banking at Cohen & Company Capital Markets, to unpack an increasingly important financing route for later-stage dee...
Critical Minerals, E-Waste, and the Race to Build Domestic Supply Chains with Matt Bedingfield
In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Matt Bedingfield, CEO of Mint Innovation, to explore what happens when deep tech moves beyond the laboratory and starts confronting the realities of industrial scale.After...
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