Deep Tech Playbook
This playbook provides a framework to master the complexity of Deep Tech ventures, based on hard earned lessons from past successes and failures.
It introduces business readiness levels to guide execution and fosters system-thinking that integrates product management, technology development, industrialization, commercialization, and strategy. It defines product-market fit and offers a structured approach to achieving it. Encouraging agile, hypothesis-driven decisions and risk frontloading, it also includes a terminology chapter to avoid miscommunication.
Ultimately, this playbook aims to bridge the gap between invention and commercial success, reducing risk while maximizing ROI for Deep Tech entrepreneurs.
PS: Proceeds are reinvested into the ecosystem. If cost is a barrier, reach out – we’ll make it work.
Patrick Griss has been at the forefront of Deep Tech innovation for 25 years – as investor, in corporate roles, as founder, board member, engineer, or advisor to leadership teams. He is an engineer by training and contributed to more than 40 journeys from invention to industrialisation, to commercial launch, to scale-up, or failure. Patrick’s career is marked by entrepreneurship, leadership, and impact on an international scale.
This Playbook is based on his successes and failures and extracts the essence of what has worked and what hasn’t. It is actionable, practical and guides entrepreneurs towards delivering value to customers. Patrick is CEO of Zühlke Ventures, was with Roche Diagnostics, holds a PhD from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and an MSc from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
