DEEP TECH | PORTFOLIO ADVISORY | PROGRAMME & INITIATIVE EVALUATION AND DESIGN
Deep tech decisions that stand up to scrutiny
Your programme is busy. Your portfolio looks promising. Your team is making progress. Yet the next commitment is still hard to justify.
I show deep tech stakeholders where the logic breaks — and help them make defensible lab-to-market decisions.
You deserve an honest answer.
Especially when it's inconvenient.
Stop carrying the contradictions yourself.
One adviser says raise.
Another says validate.
The customer wants proof you cannot yet afford to produce.
Someone needs to make the pieces work together.
I test those each other: what they assume, what they require and what they would set in motion. You get a position, the reasoning behind it and a practical route to the next decision. I focus on the uncertainty that could change your commitment — before time, money, access or rights become difficult to recover.
A CLOSER LOOK
Strong parts can still make a weak decision.
The individual reviews look reassuring. They have not established whether the proposed steps can work together. Make the unresolved dependency explicit before the next commitment.
BEFORE
More advice.
The same unresolved decision.
You keep explaining the case, reconciling conflicting recommendations and wondering what you have overlooked.
AFTER THE WORK
A recommendation you can question, explain and use.
You know what matters now, what can wait, and what evidence would change the recommendation.
Watch
how deep tech
connects
A familiar person for the cases that do not fit the playbook.
Deep tech stakeholders across the entire value chain need more than a one-off because the environment is complex and evidence in one field shifts what surrounds it. I work across cases and cohorts, with continuing support as the evidence, the companies and the decisions change.
Start with a case. Build a shared understanding. Return with the next one without rebuilding the relationship from scratch.
I will challenge the assumptions.
You should not have to defend the fact that you asked.
I work with the evidence available, make the gaps explicit and decide what is worth finding out. Candour should leave you better equipped to act.
Independent expertise.
A clear point of view.
Hi, I'm Maria Ksenia Witte
You work directly with me: a scientist and independent commercialisation expert. I will challenge the assumptions, explain my judgement and tell you what would change it. You get a clear position — and the evidence to defend your next move.
250+ cases assessed · 25+ programmes & ecosystems
€120M+ allocation exposure
My QUATISE® methodology is built on formally certified applied RD&I under OECD Frascati criteria (validated through the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space).