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 ...
Oct 27, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 29
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 mic...
Oct 20, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 28
On this episode of Start Up the Science, we have the wonderful Véronique Schwartz and Tobias Mentzel from faCellitate! 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 develop...
Oct 06, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 ...
Sep 29, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 26
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 techn...
Sep 22, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 25
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...
Sep 08, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 24
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 a...
Aug 25, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 23
On this episode of Start Up the Science, we spoke with Chris Wessendorf of memetis ! Memetis was founded in 2017 by Christoph Wessendorf, Dr. Marcel Gültig, Dr. Christof Megnin and Dr. Hinnerk Oßmer as a spin-off from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 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...
Aug 18, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 22
For this week's episode, we sat down with one of our newest startup members at INAM, PlastFormance! PlastFormance is developing and producing injection-moldable compounds with significantly better physical features than what is currently available on the market. Their patented technology allows them to craft compounds with unprecedented filler contents without giving up injection-moulding capabilities. The materials that they create are highly functional – the characteristics of the filler-mater...
Aug 04, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 21
We were very excited to welcome Carlos Lee, Director General of EPIC to our podcast for this month's Expert Episode. EPIC stands for the European Photonics Industry Consortium. They are an industry association that promotes the sustainable development of organisations working in the field of photonics in Europe. We at INAM admire the way that they foster a vibrant photonics ecosystem by maintaining a strong network and acting as a catalyst and facilitator for technological and commercial advance...
Jul 28, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 20
We are so excited about our first ever Where Are They Now? Episode! We've had so many amazing startups on our podcast so far but it's always good to catch up with them and see how they've progressed since we last chatted with them. This episode features 6 startups from past episodes: (in order of appearance) NanoPattern Technologies | Yu Kambe | Season 2 Episode 1 yukambe@nanopatterntechnologies.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/nanopattern/ QustomDot | Kim De Nolf & Igor Nakonechnyi | Se...
Jul 21, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 19
We've been getting many questions about our upcoming programs - the Innovative Battery Technologies Challenge and AdMaCom 2020! What better way to bring you all the information about these programs than to tell you ourselves? In this short, short episode, Antonia, Christina and Chris bring you information about the upcoming programs. Here are some key points and links: Open Innovation Challenge for Innovative Battery Technologies INAM on behalf of GOOD STUFF Ventures and HOYER Handel GmbH are lo...
Jul 07, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 19
If you would like to know what an Investment Manager is looking for, this expert episode will most probably pique your interest. This month's expert is Dr. Marie Asano, an investment manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). HTGF is a public-private venture capital investment firm based in Germany. They are an early stage seed investor, focused on high potential high-tech start-ups. In this episode, we ask Marie to explain what aspects of a startup herself and other investors are specifically lo...
Jun 30, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 18
For this week's episode, we had a wonderful chat with CEO and Co-Founder of Fluence Analytics, Alex Reed! Fluence Analytics is a manufacturer of industrial and laboratory monitoring solutions that produce continuous data streams. With two product lines and an international presence, Fluence Analytics offers ACOMP and ARGEN for the polymer and biopharmaceutical industries. To learn more about Fluence Analytics, visit fluenceanalytics.com/ You can also visit their LinkedIn Page . Alex also has a L...
Jun 23, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This week's episode features Tanya Colonna and Hobey Tam of BlackTop Labs. BlackTop Labs is set to become the new standard of care in personalized athletic training optimization. Their first product is a patent-pending diagnostic decision-making tool that bridges the current technology gap between standard data collection techniques and personalized care with advanced micro-electronics and smart system integration technology. Currently, physical therapists and athletic trainers are bound to gene...
Jun 09, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Get ready to be inspired by today's Expert, Zina Jarrahi Cinker! Zina was the Managing Director of the National Graphene Association before moving on to her current role of CEO & Managing Partner at the C6 Advanced Material Firm. C6 is a full service strategy & Implementation firm, architecting the Advanced Material Ecosystem. Redefining the Advanced Material playbook from breakthrough to industrialization, discarding outdated practices and unwieldy models of market development and partn...
May 25, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 15
We are happy to have been able to connect with Firas Khalifeh, the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Mobile. Carbon was created to accelerate the world's transition to advanced composite materials in personal electronics. They believe that slabs of plastic and aluminum should not be in our pockets and that plastic electronics damage our future by causing many millions of tons of e-waste each year. Carbon Mobile replaces those materials with advanced composites to create the sustainable, lighter, thin...
May 18, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 14
We are so excited about our upcoming AdMaCamp program that we just had to share it with you. AdMaCamp is our Advanced Materials Online Bootcamp. It will take place from 11 - 15 May 2020 (next week!) with the Demo Day on the last day, Friday the 15th of May. This is our very first online bootcamp that we've organized and we're happy to have 13 incredibly innovative startups joining the program: ACBIODE | Tokyo, Japan Developing the world’s first stand-alone AC (Alternating Current) battery and sp...
May 06, 2020•12 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week's episode of Start Up the Science features Vitor Abrantes, the CEO and one of the founders of Graphenest. Graphenest has patented both a method and device for the production of graphene nanoplatelets and their use can be extended to the production of other graphene-like materials.They have found a way to exfoliate graphene (that is sourced from 14 different locations) which then results in high-quality graphene nanoplatelets which can be produced in a variety of grades and forms for di...
May 04, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 13
We have a very insightful Expert Episode for you this week. It features Dr. Tonino Greco, a Chief Analyst and Technology Scout for Sony. Tonino has been involved with INAM activities since 2016. He is a very active mentor for our accelerator programs and, as he mentions in this episode, very keen on collaborating with advanced materials startups on behalf of Sony. This is a great episode for any startups and entreprenuers who are curious about how tech scouts think and work. Tonino walks us thro...
Apr 27, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In our 11th episode of the season, we talk with Simone Meduri, Tech Development Manager of Phononic Vibes! Phononic Vibes is significantly decreasing noise pollution. Their technology is based on periodic architected structures that dampen and absorb mechanical vibrations and noise. To see what they do and to experience their 'Metamaterial Experience" check out their website, PhononicVibes.com OR check out their video directly on their YouTube Channel . We first met Simone during the 2019 Advanc...
Apr 20, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In this episode of Start Up the Science we talk with Erik Gatenholm, CEO and Co-Founder of CELLINK. CELLINK designs and develops bioprinting technologies that enable researchers to 3D print organs and tissue for applications that span industries, from pharmaceutical to cosmetic. Their patent-pending bioink is a biomaterial innovation that allows human cells to grow and thrive as they would in their natural environment. Researchers leverage CELLINK's technologies to print liver, cartilage, skin t...
Apr 06, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 10
It's time for another EXPERT episode of Start Up the Science. In this episode, we have a delightful conversation about networking with Mike Richardson of Photonic Insights. We have never met a better networker than Mike Richardson. We've personally seen him break a sweat from matchmaking because he was trying to match EVERYONE in the room. Not to mention, Mike is one of our hardest working mentors for AdMaCom. Listen to this episode if you would like to understand the importance of human connect...
Mar 30, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Episode 8 of Start Up the Science Season 2 features Cellugy! We had the chance to get Engagement Manager, Serena Leka, on Skype where we asked her about Cellugy, their journey as well as their unique pitching styles. We had our first encounter with Cellugy during our 2019 AdMaCom where the team (led by Isabel Álvarez-Martos ) walked away with the grand prize! Since then, they have been taking the world by storm with their amazing technology! Cellugy is replacing fossil-based, single use plastics...
Mar 22, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week's episode of Start Up the Science features Laura Bücheler of Ghost - feel it. GHOST - feel it is offering a software to use physical touch to cause unique user experiences in products. Create intelligent clothing that can guide you to your desired location or a carseat that can make you look left if there is someone in your blind spot. These and more applications can be created using our effect library and our Drag&Drop Software tool. To learn more about Ghost - feel it., visit the...
Mar 08, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 7
To continue with our Expert Episode Series, this week we have Ulf Håkanson. He is the Chief Intellectual Property Officer at INL - the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. We met Ulf last year when he joined us as an AdMaCom mentor and he quickly became one of the favourites. This comes as no surprise as intellectual protperty is one of the most valuable assets of a startup. In this episode, we talk to Ulf about IP strategies for deep tech startups with a focus on university spin-off...
Feb 24, 2020•18 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week's episode features the Italian stylings of Fleep Technologies ! We talked with Giorgio Dell'Erba and Paolo Colpani about their fully-printed and recyclable integrated circuits and systems for next generation human-interfaces. They are enabling flexibility and environmental sustainability in the world of electronics, with new devices able to create astonishing paths for user-interaction with common products. Our team works on this by developing a scalable process that is easily adaptabl...
Feb 17, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Episode 4 of Season 2 of Start Up the Science features the lovely ladies of IDUN Technologies. IDUN Technologies is the leading producer of customized soft and dry electrodes – the DRYODES™. Founded in 2017 following three years of academic R&D at ETH Zürich, IDUN Technologies has developed the Dryodes™ that are used around the world for wearable technology and research. We first met Severine and Katja when they came to Berlin for the 2019 Advanced Materials Competition (AdMaCom) and they we...
Feb 02, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This season, we will be airing “Expert Episodes”! Every few weeks we will invite experts in different areas that are relevant to startups and entrepreneurs to come and impart their wisdom on the show. We’ll have experts from many different fields such as IP, legal, pitching, business, investment, funding and more! This week, on our very first Expert Episode, we invited INAM’s very own Ferdinand Bartels to come and share business advice based on his experience with mentoring deep tech startups. C...
Jan 26, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 3
On this episode of Start Up the Science, we sit down with the ever so funny and witty co-founders of Thermulon, Sam Cryer and Alex Murdock! Thermulon is an early stage startup that has designed a novel chemical process to synthesize nanoporous insulation at scale. Theirs is the first high-performance, non-combustible building insulation material to meet increasing energy efficiency and fire regulations. Thermulon was another startup finalist at our 2019 Advanced Materials Competition (AdMaCom) p...
Jan 19, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
