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Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm

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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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Entrepreneurship
Business
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every 25 days
Average audio length:
54 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
43 episodes
since April 23, 2024
episodic
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From Eureka Moment to Industrial Scale with Jamie Walters

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In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Jamie Walters, Co-Founder, Board Member and VP of Strategic Transactions at Calyxia, to explore what it really takes to move deep tech from the lab into commercial markets. Jamie reflects on his own journey from researcher to CTO and…
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