Positron Ventures

🚀  Come join Birte, Fabian and others - learn about our scout network and become part of it! ❗48 hours left to apply for our scout network

🌟 Join Our Mission to Transform Science into Startups! 5 days left ⏳ 🔍 Are you a Master, PhD, or PostDoc student with a passion for scientific innovation? Become a Scout and help us uncover the brightest minds in European academia! 🤝 Collaborate with a community of like-minded individuals and gain insights into the venture capital world. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dWmgkCqg

🧠 Meet Birte Toussaint and Fabian Mulder - two of our inaugural scouts! Both neuro/bio nerds with a love for science entrepreneurship! 🔎 Positron has scouts? Yes! Students, researchers, founders across Europe and just as excited about starting companies around the biggest science breakthroughs as we are. (And we are looking for new ones to join - see the comments) 🎉 Get to know the first two of our scouts today (we'll introduce them all to you in the future): Birte - Hailing from South Africa, Birte is currently a postdoc at ETH Zurich. Here she follows her passion at the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry and computer science - after a PhD developing diagnostic tools in computational psychiatry, she is now exploring possible startup routes of her own. Fabian - A citizen of Europe, born in the Netherlands - currently residing in Heidelberg and pursuing a Master’s in Molecular Biosciences. Fabian is highly involved in several biotech startup development initiatives and life science entrepreneurship communities such as iGEM Startups. He has a special interest in neurotech, personalised medicine and organ printing technologies. https://lnkd.in/gUtfD8A5

🔬 Passionate About Science and Startups? 👩🎓👨🎓 Master, PhD, and PostDoc students, we need your expertise! Join us as Scouts to help find and support the most promising scientific entrepreneurs in Europe. 🌐 Expand your professional network, gain hands-on experience in venture funding, and be at the forefront of scientific innovation. 🔗 Apply now! Details in the comments.

🚀 We are excited to be at HackSummit in Lausanne this week! 🌱 At Positron Ventures, we help and fund Europe-based scientist-entrepreneurs who are pursuing moonshots for (planetary) health. 🔍 Are you a scientist and plan to spin out your research into a startup? Are you aiming for a moonshot? 📝 If you are also there and want to meet up, feel free to send a message to Julia Wagner!

⚡️ We are wasting a substantial part of electricity generated by wind and solar, simply because supply and demand do not fully align. 🔋 A tremendous amount of long duration energy storage capacity is needed to bridge the gap. And it needs to be dirt cheap. 🌍 Ore Energy's batteries - made from just iron, water and air - might be the missing piece of the renewable energy puzzle. I feel honoured to contribute with Positron Ventures. 👇 Here is some more context on why we invested: https://lnkd.in/eQbTt_fR

📢 Funding announcement 📢 We first met Aytac Yilmaz in 2022, before he had set up a company to bring the scientific breakthrough from his PhD to market. Partnering with him from day one, and humbly contributing to his journey from scientist to entrepreneur is what we love to do at Positron. What the Ore Energy team has achieved so far is phenomenal. And it is great to finally reveal what they are working on!

📢 Funding announcement 📢 We first met Aytac Yilmaz in 2022, before he had set up a company to bring the scientific breakthrough from his PhD to market. Partnering with him from day one, and humbly contributing to his journey from scientist to entrepreneur is what we love to do at Positron. What the Ore Energy team has achieved so far is phenomenal. And it is great to finally reveal what they are working on!

📢 Funding announcement 📢 We first met Aytac Yilmaz in 2022, before he had set up a company to bring the scientific breakthrough from his PhD to market. Partnering with him from day one, and humbly contributing to his journey from scientist to entrepreneur is what we love to do at Positron. What the Ore Energy team has achieved so far is phenomenal. And it is great to finally reveal what they are working on!

❓ What kind of science do we get most excited about at Positron? 🔬 Breakthroughs in science with a clear problem-solution-fit As Anna-Lena puts it in her recent blog: "With that we mean the market or problem is painstakingly clear. We need long duration grid storage, better ways to treat cancer, ways to replace all plastics with microplastic-free circular alternatives. But today’s solutions don’t cut it yet. And then a scientist comes around proving (at lab scale) a completely new approach." 👇 Subscribe to read more: