Stephane Mutz

Technology Officer

2022 - Current

I'm a Technology Officer at DeeptechXL. DeeptechXL is an early-stage venture capital impact fund. We invest in companies that develop complex hardware to have a large societal impact. We help our portfolio companies succeed by providing capital, expertise, and network. Please reach out if you are a founder active in our focus area: Sectors: Energy, health, agri and security Technologies: photonics, quantum computing, manufacturing, nanotechnologies, advanced materials, semiconductors, robotics. Stage: Seed and Series A

Chief Executive Officer

2020

Chief Innovation Officer

2020 - 2022

Wireless design manager

2018 - 2020

President / CEO / Founder

2011 - 2018

RF-CMOS tranceiver design

2008 - 2011

Business Line System Architect

2005 - 2008

System architect for BL STB&HMD (Set Top Boxes and Home Media Devices) In charge of architecture and technical roadmapping activities to support the BL business moving forward (100+M$ turnover). Key area of responsabilities: - Technical roadmapping (system, features, products and IPs) - Marketing support - Link to product development - Standardization activities (e.g. DVB, ...) - Consolidation of architecture activities and competences - DVB-T2 demodulator architecture

Hardware group leader

2001 - 2005

Management of a team of 12 enginners focused on SoC architecture and advanced IP creation supporting digital consumer applications leveraging state of the art design methodologies (SystemC, ASIP, mixed HW/SW solutions). Specific expertise on video decompression.

Lead SoC architect

1998 - 2001

Technical lead of a smaal team of SoC architects developping solution for the digital consumer market (STB, DVDR).

IC project leader

1997 - 1998

IC project leader for a 'first of a kind' one chip STB processor.

Verification engineer

1996 - 1997

Setup and deploy IC emulation flow as part of the design methodology for new complex SoCs.

IC design engineer

1994 - 1996

Designed several modules for digital consumer ICs and carried out different tasks throughout the IC design flow (RTL design, synthesis, verification, DfT, backend)