About


Our mission

We strongly believe that students and researchers in deep tech and life sciences, in collaboration with experienced professionals and entrepreneurs, are the core source of solutions to current and future societal challenges. But only via entrepreneurship novel ideas can be shaped into scalable operations and thus achieve real impact.

To enable this, we provide support across the entire early life-cycle from idea generation to seed-capital for launch. We mobilize and empower students and researchers to turn their ideas into scalable business innovations.

We believe that success in deep tech and life sciences requires a closely knit network of domain-specific support, while ensuring the cross-fertilization of leading edge methods.  

Our core hub is the Munich region, but we reach out well beyond that to national and international locations of the TUM and its network of affiliated institutions.

Our Leadership Team

Philipp Gerbert

Dr. Philipp Gerbert

CEO, TUM Venture Labs

VLM COO Daniel Straimer 2

Daniel Straimer

COO, TUM Venture Labs

Sascha Schwarz black and white

Dr.-Ing. Sascha Schwarz

CTO, Managing Director Additive Manufacturing

A portrait of Lars Eiermann

Dr. Lars Eiermann

Chief Sustainability Officer, Managing Director

Our Central Team

VLM Tobias Ruzok 4

Dr. Tobias Ruzok

Head of Strategic Projects

Patrick bareuther

Patrick Bareuther

Head of Digital Products & Operations

Andrea Vazquez

Andrea Vazquez

AI+ Pipeline Manager & Central Team

Valentina Zaburunova

Valentina Zaburunova

Marketing Manager

Elena Clever

Elena Clever

Operations Manager