Bring us a technology,
leave with a venture
NilTech is an open innovation and venture studio. If you hold a material, a process or a validated result that could become a company, this is where it starts: eight questions, a score, and a clear answer on whether we begin.
Scored in
five minutes,
answered in two days
The score is not a verdict on the science. It measures how far a technology is from being a venture we can build — the eight things we check first, weighted the way we weight them. Clear the line and we start the process with you: a call within two working days, then a written venture scope. Fall short and you get the specific gaps, and an open door once they close.
The eight questions
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You clear the line with room. We start.
Everything a venture needs at the start is here or close to it. Send the summary and one of the materials team calls within two working days to set up the scope.
You clear the line. We start.
The gaps below are real, but they are the kind a studio closes alongside you rather than the kind that stop a venture. Send the summary and we call within two working days.
Not yet — but it is close.
Two or three specific things stand between this and a venture, and they are named below. Close them and come back; the score is kept nowhere, so there is nothing to lose by scoring again.
Too early for a venture — not too early to talk.
What you have is a result, not yet a technology a company can be built on. The steps below are the ones that change that. If you are an industrial company with a problem rather than a technology, the industries page is the better door.
- Starting point0/15
- Intellectual property0/15
- Industrial problem0/15
- Line integration0/10
- Evidence0/10
- Team0/10
- Regulatory path0/10
- Commercial signal0/15
- Starting point — Get the material to a state where a second person can reproduce it from a written procedure. That is the line between a result and a technology.
- Intellectual property — File before you talk. A provisional application costs little and turns a conversation into a negotiation.
- Industrial problem — Name the line the material has to run on and the number it has to hit. One quantified problem is worth ten sectors.
- Line integration — Find the plant that could run it unchanged. Integration cost is the first thing an industrial buyer prices.
- Evidence — Run one structured test against the target specification, and have someone outside the team witness it.
- Team — Decide who is full-time. A venture is built by people who are not doing something else — and a studio can supply the rest, but not the first person.
- Regulatory path — Map the certification path — which standard, which body, how long. Unclear is worse than long.
- Commercial signal — Ask one prospective buyer for a letter of intent. Interest that is not on paper does not survive due diligence.
Nothing stands out — every dimension is at or near its weight.
01
We read the summary
One of the materials team reads it, not a sales desk. If the technology sits outside what we can build, we say so and point you at someone better placed.
02
A call on the technology
Thirty minutes on the material itself: what it does, what it has to survive, who owns it and who would buy it. The score tells us where to spend the time.
03
A venture scope in writing
If there is a venture, you get a written scope — the stage it starts at, what the studio contributes, what you keep — before anything else is agreed.