Berlin, Berlin, Germany
I help deep tech founders, venture builders, accelerators, innovation programs, investors, and ecosystem stakeholders make better strategic decisions before significant time, capital, and resources are committed. My work focuses on: • portfolio and program prioritization • commercialization strategy & growth pathways • venture and organizational risk mapping • strategic positioning and ecosystem fit • identifying hidden bottlenecks and second-order effects • turning uncertainty into decision-ready strategic assets Over the last 13+ years, I have worked across 250+ ventures and organizations in 25+ innovation ecosystems, engaging with founders, investors, operators, policymakers, researchers, and innovation leaders. Many deep tech organisations do not fail because of poor technologies. They fail because critical decisions are made without understanding how technology, markets, organizations, capital, regulation, and execution interact. The consequences often remain invisible until significant resources have already been committed. This is where I work. My work is informed by the 4×4-TETRA Deep Tech Matrix™, a framework designed to map interactions between technology, markets, organizations, and execution environments rather than evaluating them in isolation. Typical decision areas include: • program redesign & strategic direction • portfolio assessment & prioritization • commercialization pathway evaluation • venture positioning & market selection • fundraising & growth strategy • mandate renewal & institutional transformation ⚙️ Technical Advisory Matrix & Knowledge Domains For institutional investors, equity research firms, corporate strategy teams, consulting firms, and expert networks, I provide subject matter expertise across: • Science Commercialization & Technology Transfer • Deep Tech Venture Building • Commercialization Strategy • Deep Tech Risk Assessment • Decision-Making Under Uncertainty • Innovation Programs & Ecosystem Design • Advanced Materials, Chemistry & Science-Based Innovation Deep tech isn't a 'more complex startup'. Applying linear assumptions to science commercialization has distorted how institutions evaluate progress, allocate resources, and define success. You cannot build technological sovereignty on a borrowed playbook.
Arise Innovations operates as a structural diagnostics and decision-governance layer for deep tech ventures support infrastructures and ecosystems. Using my prioprietary system, I make visible where scientific ventures, portfolios, or programs are structurally mis-sequenced across evidence, industrialization, market formation, and capital. The work focuses on detecting irreversible risks early and governing decision order before capital, partnerships, or narratives harden in ways that increase collapse probability. Rather than predicting outcomes or scoring teams, the system produces prescriptive diagnostics: what must be true before escalation is safe, where optionality is being destroyed, and which sequencing errors systematically drive deep tech failure between TRL 3–7. In practice, this includes: • System-level diagnostics for ventures, portfolios, and programs to surface hidden constraints and dominant risk drivers • Explicit sequencing verdicts that govern when to proceed, pause, redesign, or stop • Evidence-anchored proof gates that define when equity, scale-up, or industrial commitments are structurally justified • Decision guardrails for stakeholders: policymakers, ICs, venture builders, and program leadership to prevent premature commitments • Licensing of the Operating System to accelerators, venture studios, investors, and institutions as shared decision infrastructure The scientific foundation of 4x4-TETRA Deep Tech Matrix™ is mathematically grounded, non-AI-based, and has been independently certified as original R&D under OECD standards by the German Federal Ministry framework (BSFZ). It is published as the world’s first RD&I-certified operating system for evaluation, commercialization, and capital flow in science ventures. Arise Innovations is not a consultancy. It is an operating system for governing how deep tech is allowed to evolve.
Expert Network Advisor | Available for expert consultations across: Deep tech commercialization and decision de-risking · Lab-to-market strategy · Science-based venture assessment · Innovation program design · KPI architecture in R&D environments · Technology transfer & TTO structures · Decision-making under uncertainty · Structural risk diagnosis · Capital sequencing in deep tech · Grant and equity financing for TRL 3–7 · Incubator and accelerator design · Public-private innovation programs · EU funding structures · Venture building in deep tech · Commercialization failure patterns · Institutional diagnostics
Regularly invited to (closed-door) sessions, panels, and keynotes to challenge how deep tech is evaluated, funded, and accelerated across Europe. Known for reframing venture building from a science-first, systems perspective and for questioning startup and VC logics that systematically fail scientific ventures. My work is used to align capital strategy, program design, and institutional decision-making with the physical and regulatory realities of deep tech. Creator of the proprietary 4x4-TETRA Deep Tech Matrix™ framework, a science-first operating system for venture and capital sequencing in deep tech, developed through academic and applied research and now used by European innovation institutions, venture builders, and investment teams. Contributions typically focus on: • why deep tech fails in patterns, not exceptions • how mis-sequenced capital and programs manufacture the Valley of Death • what institutions, investors, and accelerators must change to enable real translation from lab to market Frequently invited where difficult conversations are required and surface-level answers no longer suffice.
INAM provides startups with innovative technologies in Advanced Materials and Deep Tech with curated support at each stage of their growth. *Technology Scouting for Circular Economy, Sustainability, Green Tech Solutions *Grants Management *Networking & Match Making *Mentoring science & tech startups in venture building. *Business Advisor in accelerator programs.
• Interdisciplinary leading of R&D projects (internal and external); • Management Consulting for Public Funding and Research Grants; • Research tax funding (DE: steuerliche Forschungszulage); • Project management: coordination of cooperation with external consultants and contractors.
• Leadership of projects among R&D – Manufacturing – Product Registration, • Quality management and Regulatory Affairs, • Working in GxP environment, documentation, reporting, • Assistance in development and implementation of e-LIMS-system.
• Interdisciplinary leading of R&D projects; technology transfer and commercialization • Extension of company's product porfolio, introduction of new product lines, industrialization of research results • Strategy, funding and business management • Application for R&D public funding & research grants (Germany and Europe); • Administration of public funding: controlling & finance management; • Arrangement of project consortiums, partner acquisition; • Representing the company in networks, team lead.