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Deep-Tech Venture Studio

Where Breakthroughs
Become Companies.

We help PhDs spin-out their deep-tech research and raise their Series A

Our Approach

A Studio Built
for Deep Tech

We start with exceptional scientists, who already have commercially relevant, defensible work — then we pair them with operators and capital. Four moves, in sequence.

1
Talent & IP

We identify high-potential university research & tech talent behind this research

2
Match CEO

We recruit proven second-time founders from our network to lead a seed and Series A, and secure pilot projects

3
Fund

We organize pre-seed funding via moonshots SPVs and partner VCs. We leverage this funding with government programs to extend the runway

4
Scale

We build strategic corporate partnerships to accelerate distribution, investment, and future exit opportunities

University Partnerships

Research Ready
to Move

Top Professors, PhDs and PostDocs generate world-changing breakthroughs, but often lack the commercial bridge to turn research into enterprise products. Moonshots provides that bridge—working side-by-side with scientific founders to build, fund, and scale the business while they drive technical innovation.

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World-Class Researchers & Defensible IP

Exceptional PhDs, PostDocs, and labs with patent-protected innovations that create an unassailable market advantage.

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Sectors We Focus On

Materials science, biomedical devices, industrial AI, clean energy systems, advanced sensors, and infrastructure technology.

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Risk-Free for Researchers

IP is only transferred once a company is successfully funded. If the venture doesn't raise, IP reverts to the researcher with no strings attached.

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Ongoing Relationship

Professors become technical advisors in the resulting company, staying involved in commercialization while we handle operations and go-to-market.

Orion Collective

Operators Who've
Done It Before

Invite-Only Network of Exited Founders and Executives. Proven operators who've built, scaled, and exited—ready to assist, invest and in some cases lead the next deep-tech company.

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Fund & Capital

Capital Designed for
Deep-Tech Timelines

Deep tech takes longer to commercialize than SaaS — but the defensibility is exponentially higher. We structure capital to match those realities, moving fast early and building the right relationships for the journey to exit.

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Pre-Seed
Pre-Seed Fund

Organized fast through our network. We close rounds in months, not quarters.

$500K – $1M
2
Seed
Seed Raise

Angels, family offices, pre-seed and seed funds.

$3M+
3
Growth & Exit
Scale

Build strategic corporate partnerships to accelerate distribution, investment, and future exit opportunities

$10M+
Corporate Alliances

Corporates Aren't Rivals.
They're Partners.

Most startups treat corporates as an endgame. We make them foundational — converting strategic partners into early customers, co-investors, and engines of acceleration from the start.

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Phase One
Pilot Customer

We engage target corporates as early customers. Their domain expertise shapes the product and their buy-in de-risks the next funding round.

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02
Phase Two
Co-Investor

As traction builds, corporate partners invest alongside our funding — adding strategic weight to the cap table and signaling conviction to the market.

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Phase Three
Accelerator

We build the corporate relationship so deeply from the start that accelerations becomes the natural next step — a well-paved path rather than a cold approach.

Portfolio

Companies We're
Building

A growing portfolio of deep-tech companies spun out of university research, led by proven operators.

About Moonshots

Built on a
Simple Premise.

The most consequential technologies are being built right now by brilliant Professors, PhDs and PostDocs in university labs. What these scientific founders lack isn't engineering rigour—it's commercial co-founders, early capital, and institutional go-to-market playbooks.

Moonshots was built to be exactly that infrastructure. We're a deep-tech venture studio: part company builder, part investor, part talent network.

$100M+Operator Track Record Capital Raised
$300M+Portfolio Exits
200+Founder Network
3Prior Tech Transfers
The Team

Operators, Investors,
Ecosystem Builders

Marco Janeczek
Marco Janeczek
Co-Founder

20+ years building and backing startups with multiple portfolio exits to buyers including Microsoft, Salesforce, Autodesk, Hootsuite, and others. Marco's edge is practical: finding strong ideas early, helping shape the company around them, and pushing from product and partnerships through to distribution and capital.

L-SPARK Infinite Ventures H-FARM Tough Commerce
Jordan Latourelle
Jordan Latourelle
Co-Founder

Founder and CEO of Tough Commerce (Y Combinator W21), where he raised $10M and grew to $10M in revenue. Previously founded StrongForce Homes and angel invested in multiple YC companies. He brings direct access to the Y Combinator founder network and deep relationships across US and Canadian venture ecosystems.

Y Combinator Tough Commerce StrongForce L-SPARK