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
Manufacturing the Future in Space: Semiconductors, Sovereignty, and Ridiculously Audacious Goals | Josh Western
Building Useful Quantum Computers: Constraints, Customers, and the Two Religions of Quantum | Richard Murray
Deep Tech Venture Building: Out The Back Ventures’ Blueprint for University Spinout Success
Why Deep Tech Unicorns Fail: Lessons from Lilium and Arrival’s Billion-Dollar Mistakes | James Arnold
Deep Tech Spinouts: Inside Albion Ventures' Decade-Long Partnership with UCL | Dave Grimm
Quantum Computing Scale-Up: How Universal Quantum is Building Million-Qubit Systems | Dr Sebastian Weidt
Challenging Deep Tech Norms: Adopting Lean Principles from Lab to Market | Mark Bjornsgaard
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: The Tokamak Energy Story | Dr. David Kingham
How to Scale Chemical Engineering Startups | Peter J. Nieuwenhuizen PhD
The State of UK Deep Tech | Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET
University Spinouts and Deep Tech Investing | Marc Singer | Osage University Partners (OUP)
Engineering Deep Tech: Scaling Plastic Recycling Technology | James Finlayson | Impact Recycling
The Most Undervalued Skill in Deep Tech - Management | Chris Perkins PhD
Lab to £30m+ in revenue and a $310m exit | Eric Mayes | CEO of Endomag
Scaling Battery Technology | Rob Davies | 6K Energy
Deep Tech Start-Ups & Industrial Giants | Paul Mascarenas OBE, Ex-CTO of Ford Motor Company
Funding the Semiconductor Future | Kevin Chen
Lab to Market Leadership Reflections: Does the Starting Point of a Deep Tech Company Matter?
Commercialising Novel Chemistry | Tim Cesarek
Doing Business with the Automotive Industry | Dr Andy Palmer, CMG
Academia versus Startup | Dr Priya Perumal
Zero to £22m in Licensing Revenue: Tony Cochrane's Ceres Power Journey
A New Type of Semiconductor Company | Scott White