Start Up the Science

For our final episode of the season, we sat down and chatted with Marie Weijler, an investment manager at Cottonwood Technology Fund.

Cottonwood Technology Fund is a consistent top performing early-stage venture capital fund. They focus on high tech technology & hard science (patent / IP based) such as robotics, photonics, telecom, optics, automotive, clean energy, sensor technology, high-tech health, nanotechnology, chemicals, advanced materials, etcetera. 

We were very excited to chat with Marie who has a very unique perspective not only as an investment manager but also being an entrepreneur herself. 

To check out her startup, LipoCoat, visit their website: https://www.lipocoat.com/

Learn more about Cottonwood: https://www.cottonwood.vc/

Connect with Marie on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weijler/

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For this expert episode, we invited Javier Grávalos of Insight Gravity.

Insight Gravity specializes in commercial due diligence and market validation of new technologies. 

In an era defined by unprecedented levels of dynamism and technological innovation, your organization’s success depends on how it can anticipate market needs and adapt solutions to key decision-making criteria.

Insight Gravity believes that established strategic thinking and cookie-cutter research methods is of little value in an era of disruption, driven by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Instead, winning organisations will be those that are able to successfully adopt knowledge integration and innovation as the new levers for growth.

Javier is our go-to mentor for commercial validation and market fit for our startups. Which is why we wanted to get him on the podcast. 

If you'd like to learn more about Insight Gravity, visit their website https://www.insightgravity.com/

You can reach out to Javier directly on his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgravalos/

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Established in 2018, ATLANT 3D Nanosystems is a fast growing deep tech company based on patent pending selective area atomic scale processing technology.

ATLANT 3D is the first in the world to combine its unique expertise in several fields:

micro-/nanofabrication and microfluidics and fluid dynamics,

high precision motion systems, surface chemistry and material science.

Their core technology has enabled them to create a stand alone rapid prototyping tool, called ATLANT 3D Nanofabricator, for micro and nanodevices with possibility for atomic layer 3D printing of micro- and nanostructures from a library of over 450 materials.

To learn more about ATLANT 3D Nanosystems, visit their website at https://www.atlant3d.com/

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Check out our Livestreamed Demo Day from this year's AdMaCom program: Watch Here

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faCellitate is a Venture Team of Chemovator GmbH. It was created in 2018 from a BASF research project by an interdisciplinary team consisting of chemists and biologists with long-term experience in material design. The resulting product ideas have been developed to market maturity in the Chemovator, the internal business incubator of BASF.

faCellitate specializes in the development of polymer surface coatings for laboratory consumables to create a fully synthetic, biologically relevant environment for cell-based assays. The highly defined and standardized products are used in areas of biomedical research such as cancer and stem cell research, early drug discovery and toxicology to enable and significantly refine the efficiency and predictability of preclinical cell-based models.

In May 2020, the team launched BIOFLOAT ™, their first product line that offers an advanced cell-inert surface coating for 3D culture with superior reliability and consistency.

To learn more about faCellitate, visit their website at https://facellitate.com/

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For this expert episode, we were excited to invite Jose Jimenez of SEEDRS. 

SEEDRS is an equity cordfunding platform that enables all types of investors to invest in businesses they believe in and share in their successes. They enable all types of growth-focused businesses to raise capital and a community in the process.

We reached out to Jose a few years ago to join our panel of investors for our yearly accelerator program, AdMaCom. We like to understand and bring understnading to the different types of fundraising that are available to startups. Jose has always brought a new and fresh perspective to the Investors Days as crowdfunding is a bit different from other traditional types of investment. 

If you'd like to learn more about SEEDRS, visit their website https://www.seedrs.com/

You can reach out to Jose directly on his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jomajimenez/

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On this episode of Start Up the Science we have the wonderful Miriam Haerst, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kumovis. 

The name Kumovis might sound familiar to those who have heard our episode with expert Marie Asano who expressed her love for this startup. After this episode, we can definitely understand her sentiments.

Kumovis enables the creation of medical products that bring outstanding benefit to the healthcare sector and especially its patients. Driven by the sector’s needs, they create new technologies, develop sound processes and provide materials.

The Kumovis R1 is the world’s first FLM 3D printer built for medical production. The R1 allows for 3D printing medical devices with materials such as PEEK, PPSU, PEI or PEKK while retaining original properties.

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Our newest episode of Start Up the Science features Jan Gerber (COO) and Stanislaw Grünstein (Strategy and Operations Manager) of Brain of Materials!

Brain of Materials is a B2B platform for material innovation. Made for designers, engineers, architects, and anyone enthusiastic about smart materials. Their goal is to make innovative materials suitable for industrial use, while enabling product managers to significantly speed up their development cycles.

Brain of Materials is a spin-off from the imat group, one of the leading service providers for engineering and testing services in the automotive industry. With over 30 years of experience in material testing, they realized that every single car manufacturer was struggling with the lack of a single source for material data that suits different requirements along the supply chain.

To learn more about Brain of Materials, visit their website at http://www.brainofmaterials.com/

Or contact them directly at [email protected].

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Our first ever Sponsored Episode is brought to you by MotionLab.Berlin! We had a blast talking with Nadine and Tayla about everything MotionLab! 

MotionLab.Berlin offers maker garages, offices, coworking space and more for hardware startups in the mobility sector. However, they offer so much more than SPACE. They have an open digital fabrication studio where you can learn how to use 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC Routers, design software and electronics to make almost anything. They also offer access to a professional DIY studio and a AMAZING community of makers.

To learn more about MotionLab and their space and community, visit their website.

And make sure to stay up to date with the latest MotionLab news by following them on LinkedIn.

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On this episode of Start Up the Science, we spoke with Chris Wessendorf of memetis!

Their core technology is the development of ultracompact actuators made of thin foils of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) that can be used for applications where movement in small dimensions is required e.g. in locking mechanisms. With these Shape Memory Alloy actuators, memetis is, amongst others, manufacturing miniature valves that allow for small and especially flat fluidic systems in various industries, e.g. Life Sciences, Robotics, etc.

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