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Your hardest challenge,
reviewed by the board.
No pitch. No stage. Support you choose.
A selected cohort brings live challenges to the board. The panel reviews each one and comes back with concrete ways to help: you decide what to act on.
Expert review
The panel reviews your challenge asynchronously. You do not pitch, and you do not need to attend.
Proposed support
You receive a tailored set of support measures and potential introductions, matched to your ask.
Your decision
Accept what fits, decline the rest. No obligation: you stay in control.
Warm introductions
For everything you accept, the board opens the doors: to investors, corporates and operators.
Who is reviewing your challenge.
A standing panel assembled to cover the full range of what a deep-tech company needs: capital, science, market access, and hard-won operating experience.
Ex-founders
Operators who have built, scaled and exited deep-tech companies of their own.
VC investors
Early-stage funds who know how a raise really comes together.
University professors
Scientific depth from across the research landscape.
Corporate partners
Decision-makers from SMEs, banks, insurers and industry.
From application to introductions.
Apply
Submit your company and the challenge you want reviewed.
Screening
We select a focused cohort for the cycle.
Board review
The panel reviews your challenge asynchronously: you do not attend.
Proposed measures
You receive tailored support and potential intros, and decide what to take.
Warm intros
For what you accept, we make the introductions and track outcomes with you.
What founders walked away with.
A sample from recent boards, anonymised.
A materials-tech team needed real-world validation. The board opened pilot conversations with several major chemical and building-materials corporates.
A climate-hardware team preparing to fundraise left with a tighter equity story and warm introductions to a set of deep-tech venture funds.
A deep-tech team hunting its first anchor customers was connected directly to established players in its target sector.
Anonymised. We can name startups and partners once they opt in.
Bring your hardest challenge to the next board.
Apply for our next Startup Board
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