Five ways to work beyond one-on-one

Research Teams · Universities · Institutes

Lab2Market Workshop

Three formats · Cohort or single team

From €2,000

Per team or per session depending on format

Structured commercial thinking for research teams before the pitch room. For teams with strong technology and a clear research vision, but not yet the commercial framing that customers, partners or investors need to see before they engage.

Three formats designed for different stages of commercial maturity: a cohort workshop for groups opening the commercial lens for the first time, a deep structure working session for teams ready to model commercial potential, and a pitch assessment for teams who have developed a storyline and want honest market-lens feedback.

The three formats can be booked individually. A short exploration call will identify which applies.

Founders · Accelerators · Investors

Pilot Readiness Assessment

Remote or onsite

€3,500

Interview · Gap Analysis · Action Plan · Team Review · Follow-up

A structured deep-dive into operational reality. Know exactly where you stand, what to fix next and how to keep it on track.

Two focused interview sessions across all operational disciplines. A written evaluation with blind spots, noted exposure levels and a concrete action plan recommendation. A review session with your team to align. A follow-up to check what's moving.

Stands alone as a complete engagement or feeds directly into a fractional engagement or Bootcamp cohort if gaps require more hands-on support.

For Investors

Investor Hardware Lens

One-day working session

€4,500

+ travel expenses · 8–12 participants

A full-day working session that teaches investment teams to read hardware operational readiness the way an operator does. No slides to sit through. Practical, direct, built around the questions that protect hardware investments from the operational failures that kill them.

Five focus areas covered across the day:

• · Phase gates vs TRL: what the roadmap actually tells you
• · Requirements, risk and change: the triangle that kills hardware
• · Leadership and skills: reading the team behind the product
• · Production ramp readiness: what happens after the product ships
• · Question bank: leave with a working document for board and due diligence use

Can also be adapted for founder teams or corporate hardware functions. Enquire directly.

Investors · Startups · Accelerators

Hardware Execution Bootcamp

Five-day onsite cohort sprint

From €15,000

2 startups minimum · +€5,000 each additional · max 8

A five-day onsite execution sprint inside your portfolio. Up to eight hardware startups, working in their own tools, on their actual projects, in the same room. Every operational framework built and running by Friday.

Booked by investors for their portfolio cohort, or by a single startup as an exclusive tailored engagement. Includes pre-bootcamp readiness assessment, five-day programme, post-bootcamp readiness report, and optional gate review observation.

Right for: investors at early stage before PVT · founding teams still running operations · B2B and B2C hardware · deep tech spinouts

Keynote & Events

Keynote Speaking

Keynote · Fireside · Panel

Enquire for availability

Investor events · accelerators · corporate innovation days

Nicole speaks on the operational realities of hardware at scale, for investor events, accelerator demo days, and corporate innovation days. The frameworks taught in her programmes are published openly at blog.taivr.net and used as reference material by hardware teams across Europe.

Available as a keynote (45–60 min), fireside conversation, or panel contribution. Topics range from the operational gap in hardware investment to the founder-as-bottleneck problem and what it takes to run a production ramp.