Expert Team Building for Deep Tech Startups and Scaleups

Deep Tech companies are the greatest hope in solving some of humanity’s biggest challenges, with innovations that have the potential to make the world cleaner, healthier and more intelligent. But building and scaling a Deep Tech company is hard. The feats of scientific discovery, engineering, financing, management, and leadership required are immense. This is where we come in. 

Deep Tech Company Expertise

Deep Tech Leaders exists to increase the chance of these critical innovations making it to market. We do this by supporting innovators with the board and leadership talent and insight required to deliver their novel solutions from the Lab to the Market. Our team is made up of seasoned professionals, each with more than 25 years of experience working within the science, technology and engineering industries. In addition to backgrounds in executive search, members of our team have worked in startups, corporates and venture funds, giving us first-hand insight into the challenges building of leadership teams and boards.

We believe this mix of experience gives us the depth and context to offer higher-quality advice to our clients and investor partners.

Our Spinout and Startup Clients

We work with spinouts from the world’s leading universities and research institutes, as well as startups backed by the world’s leading venture funds. These companies build breakthrough technologies and solutions across the Advanced Computing, Industrial, Biotechnology (Biotech), and Medical (Medtech) domains. Through the recruitment of board and C-level talent and our expertise, we help them navigate their Lab to Market journey, secure product-market-fit and deliver a scalable business that adds significant value to its stakeholders. 

Headquartered in London, we operate across the UK and European markets and are fortunate to work with most of the leading Deep Tech investors across these regions. Our network of talent is global.

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Chris Reichhelm CEO Deep Tech Leaders Portrait

Chris Reichhelm, CEO

Chris is the founder and CEO of Deep Tech Leaders and host of the ‘Lab to Market Leadership’ podcast. He has been advising and recruiting for science, technology and engineering companies for more than 25 years, focused on appointing boards and executive teams. Over the past 12 years, he has worked with more than 120 Deep Tech startups & scaleups across the Industrial, Life Science and advanced Computing domains, helping them along their Lab to Market journeys. He works extensively with leading investors and regularly advises institutions and universities on leadership within Deep Tech businesses.

Chris is also the founder & CEO of Deep Tech Jobs, an online job platform that aims to connect the world's leading scientists and engineers with the most deeply technical science and engineering jobs.

Early in his career, Chris worked for Heidrick & Struggles. He later helped establish two London-based, technology-focused executive search firms. In 2011, he founded Peloton - now Deep Tech Leaders.

American by background, Chris graduated from Muhlenberg College, USA, and has lived in the UK for more than 30 years.