Deeptech Investment Strategy
Decide where to invest and why
For investors, corporations and organizations building or refining a deeptech investment strategy.
We start with the investment mandate and identify the technology areas, industrial problems, and value-chain opportunities where capital can create the greatest value.
We analyze:
- Market and industrial needs
- Emerging technologies
- Scientific and patent activity
- Value-chain gaps and constraints
- Technology and market maturity
- Regulatory and policy developments
- Capital requirements
- Strategic relevance and investment potential
What you receive
A focused investment thesis defining priority sectors, technologies and problems; clear investment criteria; areas to avoid or monitor; and a pipeline of relevant companies, technologies and ecosystems.
Deeptech Due Diligence
Understand what you are really investing in
For investors evaluating a deeptech company before making an investment decision.
We independently test the technical and commercial assumptions behind the investment case.
Depending on the company and maturity, we assess:
- Scientific robustness
- Technology maturity
- Technical differentiation
- Intellectual property and defensibility
- Competitive technologies
- Market need and market potential
- Techno-economics and unit economics
- Scale-up and manufacturing
- Raw materials and supply chains
- Regulatory and policy readiness
- Environmental, health and safety considerations
- Commercialization and adoption
- Team and execution capability
- Capital intensity and financing requirements
What you receive
A clear view of the company’s strengths, risks and unresolved assumptions, together with the milestones and evidence required to support an investment decision.
Investment Readiness
Prepare a deeptech company for serious investor scrutiny
For science-based ventures preparing to raise capital.
A strong technology does not automatically create an investable company. Investors need evidence that the company can move from today’s development stage to a commercially and industrially viable business.
We assess the venture from an investor’s perspective across:
- Technology
- Market
- Competition
- IP
- Manufacturing and scale-up
- Supply chain
- Regulation
- Business model
- Unit economics
- Commercialization
- Team
- Capital strategy
We identify the gaps that could weaken the investment case and define the actions required to close them.
What you receive
A prioritized investment-readiness roadmap and support developing the Data Room with the evidence investors need, including:
- Technology Readiness Level
- Commercial Readiness Level
- Manufacturing Readiness Level
- Supply Chain Readiness Level
- Regulatory and Policy Readiness Level
- Team and Organizational Readiness Level
- Financial Readiness Level
Deeptech Strategy & Technology Scouting
Find technologies that can solve real industrial and market problems
For corporations and organizations looking for new technologies, R&D directions or growth opportunities.
We begin with the problem: an unmet customer need, product limitation, manufacturing constraint, strategic objective or industrial challenge.
We translate that problem into technical requirements and search globally for technologies capable of solving it.
We assess relevant technologies based on:
- Required technical performance
- Technology readiness
- Competitive alternatives
- Applicability to the target use case
- Manufacturing and integration requirements
- Economics
- Sustainability
- Regulatory constraints
- Development requirements
- Potential partners
This problem-led approach has been central to previous deeptech innovation work, where market requirements and product trade-offs are translated into scientific requirements before identifying technical solutions.
What you receive
Depending on the assignment:
- Technology landscape
- Horizon scan
- Prioritized technology opportunities
- Startup and research partner landscape
- Technology benchmarking
- Patent and competitive landscape
- Technology roadmap
- R&D strategy
- Partnership strategy
- Development and investment priorities
Deeptech Venture Foundry
Build companies around problems worth solving
For regions, institutions, research organizations and industry partners seeking to create new deeptech ventures.
We identify relevant industrial and societal problems, connect them with scientific capabilities and entrepreneurial talent, and develop the strongest combinations into new companies.
The process can include:
- Identifying regional and industrial priorities
- Mapping companies and stakeholders
- Identifying unmet needs and industrial problems
- Mapping relevant science and technologies
- Engaging researchers and technology owners
- Identifying entrepreneurs
- Matching scientific and business founders
- Running venture-building sprints
- Defining the initial technology, market and business case
- Establishing the company and development roadmap
- Preparing the venture for initial funding
The methodology follows a problem-first logic: understand the situation and value-chain frictions, define the challenge, identify potential technologies and then build and select venture concepts around them.
What you receive
New venture concepts with:
- Defined problem and target market
- Scientific and technical foundation
- Founding team
- Initial IP strategy
- Business model
- Development roadmap
- Commercialization strategy
- Financing requirements
- Initial investment case
ACTIVAE Launch
For founders, science-based ventures and organizations building or refining their visual identity.
Complex technologies and ambitious ideas need more than attractive design. They need a visual system that makes their value understandable, credible and consistent across investors, partners, customers and teams.
ACTIVAE Launch combines strategic brand thinking with hands-on design and production. We define how the organization should present itself and translate that direction into a coherent visual language across every relevant touchpoint.
What we do
We develop the strategic and visual foundations of the brand and apply them across the channels that matter most.
Depending on the organization’s needs, this may include:
- Brand discovery and strategic positioning
- Brand concept and creative direction
- Logo design or refinement
- Brand guidelines and design principles
- Website strategy, design and production
- Investor and corporate pitch decks
- Social media identity and templates
- Campaign and launch materials
- Illustration, animation and motion graphics
- Visual content for events, partnerships and commercial communication
Throughout the process, we ensure that every visual element works as part of one coherent system rather than as an isolated design asset.