Chris Heyer is founder and General Partner at Marvelous, a €75M European deeptech fund writing first cheques into science based spinouts.

He has built five startups and exited two. As CIO at MDAX listed Hypoport he ran technology at scale. He built the corporate venture arms of OBI and Vonovia, so he knows exactly how industry buys innovation and where it stalls.

Founders call him the angel without whom they would not be where they are today. Chris invests early and then gets to work.

His thesis is simple. Europe does not lack science. It lacks people who commercialise it.