Senior Venture Manager Climate Tech

Position: Senior Venture Manager (w/m/d) Climate Tech

Published November 17, 2025

TUM Venture Labs is a joint initiative of Unternehmer

TUM and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). We unite a network of domain‑specific incubators that serve as a springboard for entrepreneurship in the fields of Deep Tech and Life Sciences. Our mission is to support start‑ups in scaling from the first idea to investor readiness—powered by an active network of academic and industry experts, strategic guidance, and state‑of‑the‑art research and development infrastructure.

Your

Mission

You will support outstanding researchers and founding teams from TUM and the Munich ecosystem on their journey from scientific discovery to scalable, economically sustainable business models—with measurable climate impact contributions (mitigation, adaptation, resilience). You will work across multiple TUM Venture Labs (including Climate & Circular, Mobility, AI, Built Environment, Food/Agro/Biotech, Manufacturing) and orchestrate resources, partnerships, and capital to help high‑potential teams become fundable, internationally scalable companies more quickly.

Senior

Venture Manager (m/w/d) Climate Tech

Cross‑Venture‑Lab role with a focus on Climate (Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience) limited contract for 2 years

Identification & Developing

• Identification, prioritization, and evaluation of Climate Tech teams (Early Research to Seed) using established readiness frameworks (e.g., TRL/IRL, KTH Innovation Readiness, Disciplined Entrepreneurship).

Venture Support & Building

• 1:1 support on problem–solution fit, IP/regulatory strategy, techno‑economic assessment (TEA), “first‑of‑a‑kind” roadmaps, piloting, and industrialization.

Commercial Readiness & Capital

• Structuring go‑to‑market, pricing, and enterprise sales strategies, as well as funding strategies (grants, angels, VCs, corporate venture).
• Preparing teams for investment committees and due diligence.

Partner & Ecosystem Orchestration

• Providing access to universities, industry pilot partners, testbeds, and international programs.
• Actively building bridges between Venture Labs and key stakeholders across the DACH region, the EU, and globally.

Impact & KPIs

• Establishment and tracking of portfolio KPIs: time‑to‑investor‑readiness, funding and follow‑on funding, pilot conversions, and impact indicators (e.g., GHG / CO₂e reduction, resilience KPIs).
• Chapter Leadership Contributing to and continuously developing the cross‑lab “Startup Success” chapter; knowledge management, playbooks, trainings, and internal enablement formats.

Reporting & Systems

• Maintaining the CRM, tracking the startup funnel, and providing regular reports to TUM Venture Lab management and stakeholders.

Your Profile

• Several years of experience in the Deep Tech ecosystem, e.g., as (co‑)founder, venture builder, VC/accelerator/incubator professional, tech transfer specialist, or as part of a scaling start‑up in climate/energy/circular sectors.
• Passion for entrepreneurship and new technologies
  —you’re deeply motivated by Deep Tech for Climate and want to actively shape the start‑up ecosystem in Munich.
• Demonstrable success in venture building or portfolio support (from pre‑seed to Series A): investment readiness, pilot deals, industrialization projects.
• System‑level competence in Climate Tech
  : solid understanding of at least two areas such as energy storage & systems, hydrogen/power‑to‑X, geothermal, carbon management (DAC/CCUS), circular economy/materials, built environment, AI for Climate.
• Methodological expertise: readiness frameworks (TRL/IRL/KTH), TEA/unit economics, lean startup, design thinking, B2B sales mechanics.
• Stakeholder excellence: confident communication with academia, industry, and investors; ability to translate complex initiatives into actionable milestones.
• Teamwork
  —you recognize how work fits together across the team and foster a culture where the team achieves more than individuals alone.
• Languages
  : fluent in German and English.

What we offer

• Impact instead of buzzwords: direct leverage on the next generation of European Climate Tech champions.
• Excellent network: TUM clusters, Unternehmer
  
  TUM, industry partners, international universities (e.g., Stanford, MIT, Imperial, ETH,…