DS-01 · Deep-tech advisory · UK & Europe
Signal,
not noise.
Operator-grade advisory for deep-tech founders and the investors who back them — across robotics, quantum, photonics, defence and space. Run by a founder who raised £8M, scaled to 30 and exited.
Three ways in
Scope of work
Diligence
Is the hard part actually hard? A physics-grounded read on the technology, the moat, and what must be true for the thesis to hold.
Narrative & fundraising
Frontier technology, turned into a story capital can act on. Positioning, raise strategy, and the deck — built on verified facts, not feature lists.
Operator support
Hands-on help between milestones — go-to-market, dual-use routes, investor targeting, and the decisions that compound into scale.
Who's behind it
Built,
not just advised
Deep Signal is led by Allan — physicist by training, operator by career. Twenty years shipping hard technology, from directed-energy defence to spacecraft to satellite IoT.
He founded Krucial, exited to US defence, after Clyde Space, Thales and MBDA. He is now Entrepreneur in Residence (Deeptech) at Codebase and a CDL mentor.
The thesis is simple: Europe invents world-class deep tech and scales too little of it. Deep Signal exists to change that — one company, one fund, one programme at a time.
Physics × Defence × Space × Venture — the combination is the point