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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 by Beauxhaus
Episodes
37 episodes
The Hard Thing about Hard Tech – Greg Smithies on the TRL 4-5 Challenge
How do you move from novel idea to working prototype in hard tech? And how can you bend the rules of the game to give you a better chance of winning?Greg Smithies is a finance and o...
Taking Over From a Founder CEO: Ian Temperton on Scaling Plastic Energy
Ian Temperton became CEO of Plastic Energy in 2021 after five years as Chief Investment Officer.He stepped in as the company moved...
Graphene at Scale: How Paragraf Is Realising the Wonder Material’s Potential | Dr Simon Thomas
Dr Simon Thomas never expected to be a founder. After 12 years inside TSMC, Samsung and LG, he was ready for a break from the pressure of the world’s biggest fabs. Then Profe...
From Finnish Lab to US IPO: Dr. Jan Goetz on Building Europe's Quantum Leader IQM
Dr Jan Goetz never planned to be a CEO. He wanted to be a professor. But when co-founder Professor Mikko Möttönen asked about start...
From NASA to Startups: How TRLs Became the Universal Language of Deep Tech | John C. Mankins
Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) are the universal language of Deep Tech – used by NASA, the DoD, VCs, corporations and startups to measure innovation progress. But where did they come from? Professor John Mankins co-invented TRLs...
Why 55% of Deep Tech Companies Fail: The Communication Problem No One Talks About | Hailey Eustace
Why do 55% of Deep Tech companies fail within five years? Hailey Eustace, founder of Commplicated, argues the answer isn't bad technology - it's ...
Manufacturing the Future in Space: Semiconductors, Sovereignty, and Ridiculously Audacious Goals | Josh Western
What's the value of a ridiculously audacious goal if you never reach it? Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge, argues the question misses the point - because the innovations accelerated along the journey of...
Building Useful Quantum Computers: Constraints, Customers, and the Two Religions of Quantum | Richard Murray
What happens when quantum computing startups can’t wait 15 years for fault tolerance? Richard Murray, co-founder and CEO of Orca Computin...
Deep Tech Venture Building: Out The Back Ventures’ Blueprint for University Spinout Success
What if early-stage Deep Tech investing could be completely reimagined? Keong Chan, Managing Director of Out The Back Ventures, has spent five years building one of the most unique investment approaches in the industry - operating from Perth, A...
Why Deep Tech Unicorns Fail: Lessons from Lilium and Arrival’s Billion-Dollar Mistakes | James Arnold
What can we learn from the collapse of two billion-dollar Deep Tech unicorns? James Arnold held senior strategy and operations roles at both Lilium and Arrival - European companie...
Deep Tech Spinouts: Inside Albion Ventures' Decade-Long Partnership with UCL | Dave Grimm
Why do so few university spinouts make it from lab to market? Dave Grimm, Partner at
Quantum Computing Scale-Up: How Universal Quantum is Building Million-Qubit Systems | Dr Sebastian Weidt
What does it take to build million-qubit quantum computers - machines that could fundamentally change how we solve the world's most complex problems?Dr Sebastian Weidt, co-founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, shares the extraordinary jo...
Challenging Deep Tech Norms: Adopting Lean Principles from Lab to Market | Mark Bjornsgaard
In this captivating episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Chris Reichhelm speaks with
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: The Tokamak Energy Story | Dr. David Kingham
Nuclear fusion has been the ultimate ‘30 years away’ technology for decades. But is that finally changing?In this episode,
How to Scale Chemical Engineering Startups | Peter J. Nieuwenhuizen PhD
The road from lab to market for chemical engineering startups is anything but smooth. In this episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Chris Reichhelm talks to
The State of UK Deep Tech | Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET
In this episode, host Chris Reichhelm is joined by Dr. David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET, co-founder of
University Spinouts and Deep Tech Investing | Marc Singer | Osage University Partners (OUP)
In this episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Marc Singer, Managing Partner at
Engineering Deep Tech: Scaling Plastic Recycling Technology | James Finlayson | Impact Recycling
In this episode of the Lab to Market Leadership podcast, host Chris Reichhelm speaks with James Finlayson, CTO and Co-Founder of Impact ...
The Most Undervalued Skill in Deep Tech - Management | Chris Perkins PhD
In The Deep Tech Leaders Podcast, serial entrepreneur Chris Perkins discusses the most undervalued skill in Deep Tech – management. Listen as he reveals lessons from his...
Lab to £30m+ in revenue and a $310m exit | Eric Mayes | CEO of Endomag
In this episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Chris Reichhelm sits down with
Scaling Battery Technology | Rob Davies | 6K Energy
In this episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Chris Reichhelm interviews Rob Davies, Chief Operating Officer, at
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Deep Tech Start-Ups & Industrial Giants | Paul Mascarenas OBE, Ex-CTO of Ford Motor Company
In this episode, Lab to Market Leadership host Chris Reichhelm interviews the former CTO of the Ford Motor Company, Paul Ma...
Funding the Semiconductor Future | Kevin Chen
On this episode of ‘Lab to Market Leadership’, Chris Reichhelm talks with Kevin Chen, Managing Director of Lam Capital, about securing funding and scaling in the semiconductor space. Kevin, with his extensive experience that spans MIT, founding...