#97 - Beau-Anne Chilla - FORWARD.one - "Technology without commercialization is just expensive science"
About this episode
The episode discusses the commercialization challenges in deep tech and industrial innovation with Beau-Anne Chilla from ForwardONE.
Brought to you by: Heights : a design agency founded by Gabri Grassi, helping impact-driven tech companies sharpen their brand, attract investors, and scale their reach. Grab your free brand checklist here or reach out to Gabri to elevate your brand. **** Subscribe to the newsletter: New Wave | Hugo Rauch | Substack **** 🌊 Turning Deep Tech Into Industrial Champions Why commercialization is the real bottleneck for climate and industrial innovation. We’re joined by Beau-Anne Chilla , Partner at ForwardONE , an early-stage deep tech investor focused on industrial and energy technologies. In this episode, we explore what it really takes to turn breakthrough technologies into category-defining companies, and why Europe may be entering a once-in-a-generation moment for industrial innovation. Beau shares lessons from investing in hardware, quantum computing, energy infrastructure, and industrial software, as well as his perspective on where climate investing is headed next. In our conversation, we covered: → Why “technology without commercialization is just expensive science” → The biggest mistakes technical founders make when scaling sales → How to evaluate deep tech before the…
People in this episode
Host: Hugo Rauch
Guest: Beau-Anne Chilla
Topics covered
- deep tech
- industrial innovation
- commercialization
- climate investing
- hardware investing
- energy technologies
Keywords
- technology commercialization
- climate innovation
- industrial technologies
- quantum computing
- hardware investing
- customer validation
Sponsors
Heights
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FORWARD.one
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