DEEP Pioneers Assemble

Finding suitable commercial co-founders, is a major barrier to successful spin-offs in Germany and Europe

European Commission report "Spin-offs: Driving innovation across the EU-27"

65% of startup failures due to co-founder conflict (misalignment)

Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas

Only 3% of researchers interested in starting a spin-off actually become academic entrepreneurs, despite 28% expressing interest

ZEW (Centre for European Economic Research)

What We’re Building

We match top researchers with successful founders & backers (aka DEEP Pioneers) – turning patents into deep tech companies. This is just a start; let's do it together!

Join us for Deep Pioneers Assemble – a curated event bringing together TTOs, researchers, founders, and funders to crack one of deep tech’s hardest problems for good: How do we build the right founding teams early — and fast?