About

A European institute for
deep tech readiness

The Deep Tech Institute works with European organizations to assess, develop, and accelerate their capacity to engage with frontier technology, systematically, not speculatively.

What we do

Structural readiness for deep tech

Deep tech moves on long timelines and demands structural investment, in governance, talent, procurement, and partnerships, before any commercial return is visible. Most organizations that engage with it do so without a clear baseline of their own readiness.

The Deep Tech Institute provides the diagnostic tools, advisory frameworks, and executive intelligence that organizations need to make structured decisions about where to invest their deep tech engagement capacity, and in what order.

We work with corporate organizations, not startups. Our focus is on the European corporate and institutional landscape: organizations that have the scale, resources, and strategic intent to engage with frontier technology, and need the organizational architecture to do so effectively.

Leadership

The team

Alex Barrera

Alex Barrera

Founder & Director, Deep Tech Institute

Alex Barrera is an advisor, investor, and educator focused on how deep tech moves from scientific breakthrough to industrial deployment and economic relevance.

Through the Deep Tech Institute, he works with European corporations on the strategic side of deep tech readiness, helping organizations build governance, investment criteria, and internal capabilities to engage frontier technology systematically. His focus is on the gap between boardroom awareness and structural execution.

He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Aleph Report, a partner at a pan-European deep tech seed fund, and a professor at IE Business School.

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Angel Garrorena

Angel Garrorena

Partner, Deep Tech Institute

Angel Garrorena is a sales strategist, advisor, and educator focused on commercial execution and revenue systems for technology-driven organizations.

Through the Deep Tech Institute, he works with European corporations on the commercial side of deep tech readiness, helping organizations build the internal structures, processes, and capabilities needed to translate deep tech adoption into measurable business performance. His focus is on the gap between strategic intent and revenue execution.

He is also the founder of Lean Sales and an Adjunct Professor at IE Business School, where he teaches sales strategy and execution to executives and growth-focused organizations.

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Our approach

Precise, evidence-based, Europe-focused

DTI does not offer generic innovation frameworks or broad digital transformation advice. We focus specifically on the structural conditions for deep tech readiness, the organizational, governance, and investment factors that determine whether frontier technology engagement produces commercial outcomes.

Our diagnostic tools are built on a structured assessment framework, tested against the organizational patterns we observe across the European corporate landscape. Our advisory work is grounded in evidence, not in consulting convention or generic best practice.

Corporate organizations, not startups

We work with established organizations that have scale, resources, and strategic intent, and need the structural architecture to act on deep tech systematically.

European context

The European corporate and regulatory landscape creates specific constraints and opportunities for deep tech engagement. Our frameworks account for this context.

Diagnostic before advisory

We start with measurement. Understanding the baseline is the prerequisite for any useful advisory engagement.

Start with the diagnostic

The DTMI assessment is the quickest way to understand where your organization stands. Free, 15 minutes, immediate result.

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