Max Hefti

Venture Capital | Deep Tech | Dr. sc. ETH

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Emerald Technology Ventures ()
    • Investment Director
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Investment Manager - Energy
      Aug 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Investing in emerging technology for decarbonizing / defossilizing the energy, chemical and power sectors. Main focus areas: CCUS, Carbon Removal (CDR), Hydrogen, Synthetic fuels (e.g. sustainable aviation fuels, methanol, ammonia). Involved in all phases of the investment process: sourcing, evaluating, selecting, and supporting innovative startups from early diligence to exit.

  • Lead (cross functional team) at Liver4Life incubated at Wyss Zurich
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Development and engineering of hardware and software for a medical device; real-time marker detection using R/Python; project management; regulatory strategy; quality management; fund raising;

  • R&D Systems Engineer @Liver4Life at Wyss Zurich
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr

    Medical device development; abstracting clinical requirements and implementation; ISO 13485, 14971, IEC 62304

  • ETH Zurich ()
    • Postdoctoral Research Scientist
      Jul 2016 - Dec 2016 · 6 mos

      Develop and maintain adsorption based process simulator for blue hydrogen production / CO2 capture for large ammonia producer.

    • Doctoral Researcher in Chemical / Process Engineering
      Oct 2011 - Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Doctoral work in process engineering, focusing on process design, simulation and optimization for CCUS and (blue) hydrogen production Development of CO2 capture processes, including for direct air capture and point source. Material based simulations using MOFs, zeolites and other novel sorbents. Software development of a based process simulator (Fortran, Matlab) for industrial use by an ammonia producer Several peer-reviewed publications and patents, available on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YusXcYAAAAAJ&hl=en

  • Chemical Engineer at Novartis
    Mar 2011 - Aug 2011 · 6 mos

    Process Optimization: Campaign of crystallization experiments; statistical analysis of resulting data Process analytics: Hands-on experience with various analytics tools