From lab to market
Deep tech investors expect longer timelines and higher technical risk, but also larger outcomes. Your pitch should balance scientific credibility with commercial viability and show a clear path from breakthrough to business.
Maturity of your technology on the 1-9 scale.
Benchmark: Seed: TRL 3-4, Series A: TRL 5-6, Series B: TRL 7-8.
Patents filed, granted, and freedom-to-operate analysis.
Key proof points achieved and remaining.
Path from prototype costs to commercial viability.
Realistic timeline to first commercial revenue.
Explain what makes your approach unique
Show the path from lab to market
Demonstrate world-class technical expertise
Deep tech companies face fundamentally different challenges and timelines. Investors in this space understand that the path to commercialization is longer, but the moats are deeper.
Deep tech often requires years of development before commercialization. Investors need to see a credible roadmap.
Patents, trade secrets, and proprietary methods create defensibility. Your IP strategy is central to the pitch.
Unlike software, deep tech often has real technical unknowns. Show what you have de-risked and what remains.
Deep tech needs the market to be ready when you are. Show why now is the right time for your technology.
Deep tech investors focus intensely on these slides. Be prepared for technical deep-dives.
In deep tech, the team IS the technology. Investors need to see:
Show what you have built and what it means:
Deep tech needs large markets to justify the investment:
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