Nicolas Keller

Advisor & Angel Investor

2022 - Current

VP Business Development

2022 - 2024

3D human embodiment for AI agents. Helped the founders restructure the company from a bootstrapped, consulting- & licensing-based German academic spinoff into a venture-backed global GenAI startup backed by Tier 1 US VCs & angels. - Raised $6M Seed round with founders - Led sales & business development, including deals with 7 out of the Top 10 NASDAQ companies - Led data & compute deals - Led technology licensing deals with Max Planck’s TTO, including more than a dozen technologies - Led IP & patent strategy - Supported founders re product & milestones - Non-voting board presence

Owner & MD

2021

Small angel tickets for (pre-)seed deep tech startups. Including: Zama (fully homomorphic encryption), Trisk Bio (biomanufacturing), Chemify (robotic alchemist), Turing Biosystems (hybrid AI for pharma), Planet A Foods (chocolate without cocoa beans), Meshcapade (AI for digital humans), Neatleaf (greenhouse automation), Noyes Technologies (warehouse automation, acquired by Knapp AG) & some unannounced/stealth

Venture Partner

2021 - 2023

Vsquared Ventures is an early stage VC focused on deep tech startups.

Consultant

2022 - 2023

VP Business Development & Strategy

2017 - 2020

Acquired by Agile Robots. Lightweight robots with a sense of touch. Still THE standard embodied AI platform used in AI & robotics research. Responsibilities included ... - Corporate Development (e.g. acquired two companies, created a JV with a large industrial company), - Fundraising with CEO (we raised more than €63M+ in equity), - IP (e.g. FTOs, patent strategy, creating a portfolio of 100+ patent families and design patents), - Ecosystem (e.g. created partnerships with companies that want to build on top of our HW & SW platforms), - Business Development (e.g. approached and closed large enterprise customers together with sales, created sales & RnD partnerships with large enterprises),

Venture Capital Intern

2017 - 2017

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) is the corporate venture company of the Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the largest private companies worldwide with more than 70 billion Euros of sales. Founded in 1886, Bosch is a leading global supplier of automotive, industrial technology, consumer goods and building technology. I supported RBVC with DD & sourcing and created an investment thesis regarding DLT & blockchain that led to the world's first direct token investment of a major corporate.

Co-Founder & Business Development

2016 - 2017

Part Three of the Kastanienbaum/KBee/Franka Emika saga. What a wild ride it was. Acquired by Agile Robots.

Business Development

2016 - 2016

KBee was a JV between KUKA & Kastanienbaum. It developed collaborative robotic systems (HW & SW). I did everything related to business development.

Venture Analyst

2016 - 2016

Siemens Technology Accelerator's mission is to build new businesses with cutting-edge Siemens technologies & builds technology businesses by founding start-ups or selling and licensing technologies. I created market analyses, termsheets, business plans, licensing teasers, financial models und waterfall analysis in sectors such as electromobility, performance materials, gas sensors, software for the oil & gas industry und aviation.

Venture Analyst

2015 - 2015