About


Our mission

We strongly believe that researchers in deep tech and life sciences are the core source of solutions to current and future societal challenges. 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 cutting-edge methods.  

Through entrepreneurship and in collaboration with experienced professionals and founders, ideas and research can be transformed into scalable operations, thereby achieving 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 researchers to turn their ideas into scalable business innovations.

Our core hub is the Munich region, extending our reach nationally and internationally through our founding partner Technical University of Munich (TUM), UnternehmerTUM, and the network of affiliated institutions.

Our Leadership Team

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Dr. Philipp Gerbert

CEO, TUM Venture Labs

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Dr. Lars Eiermann

CSO & CBDO, Managing Director Climate / Circular

Sascha Schwarz

Dr.-Ing. Sascha Schwarz

CTO, Managing Director Additive Manufacturing

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Christopher Trummer

CPeO, Managing Director Quantum/ Semicon

Our Central Team

Lukas Ferner

Lukas Ferner

Chief of Staff

Patrick bareuther

Patrick Bareuther

Director Digital Products & Operations

Andrea Vazquez

Andrea Vazquez

Product Manager

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Dr. Tobias Ruzok

Head of Strategic Projects

Valentina Zaburunova

Valentina Zaburunova

Marketing Manager

Jan Blasius 2

Dr. Jan Blasius

AI Product Manager

Elena Clever

Elena Clever

Senior Events & Internal Communications Manager

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Youssef Elezaby

Full Stack Product Engineer