Timur Topalgoekceli
Co-founder, Abundance Gate
Abundance GmbH
Wien, Austria
Energy systems modeler turned entrepreneur specialised in commercialising deep tech solutions from the lab to the market, focused on biotech, foodtech, agritech
About me
Timur Topalgoekceli is co-founder of Abundance Gate, a deep tech company providing 19.000 m2 of state of the art lab space, lab-to-market advisory, and a Venture Capital fund for biotech, agritech, and foodtech startups.
Formerly at the IEA’s Chief Economist's Office in Paris, he worked on supply-side modelling and co-authored 12 publications, including the flagship World Energy Outlook, advising ministers, CEOs and leading international fora, including the WEF at Davos and the G20. He was then founder & CEO of Hello Tomorrow Türkiye, an emerging market deep tech pioneer that built a community of 7,000 innovators and helped commercialise over 400 technologies.
Timur holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MPA from Harvard University. In 2019, he was selected as Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, alongside 20 rising global leaders selected from over 100 countries who will shape the 21st century. He is a Harvard Innovation Labs Spark Grants Winner and an MIT 100k Finalist.
My organisation
Abundance Gate is an interdisciplinary lab facility & international innovation hub designed to address crucial gaps in the European innovation ecosystem by offering 18,000m2 state-of-the-art lab space, a deep tech VC fund, and advisory services aligning scientists, academics, experts, corporates and investors to realize biotech startups’ highest potential in tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems. We focus on life sciences, food sciences and cross-sections such as AI, robotics, sensor technologies and quantum computing. We bridge the gap between startup company and corporate company, bringing together the best of both worlds. We accelerate commercially and socially valuable innovations that make a difference - for our society, our planet and our economy.
Skills
- Lab-to-market
- Venture Capital
Interests
- Deeptech
- biotech
- FoodTech
- Agritech
- vc
Speaker sessions (1)
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
13:30 - 17:00
Corporate Innovation Alm
- Corporate Innovation