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Stephane Mutz

Technology officer DeeptechXL

Caen, Normandy

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $105,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,100,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Technology Officer

    2022

    I'm a Technology Officer at DeeptechXL. DeeptechXL is an early-stage venture capital impact fund. We invest in companies that develop complex hardware to have a large societal impact. We help our portfolio companies succeed by providing capital, expertise, and network. Please reach out if you are a founder active in our focus area: Sectors: Energy, health, agri and security Technologies: photonics, quantum computing, manufacturing, nanotechnologies, advanced materials, semiconductors, robotics. Stage: Seed and Series A

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020

2020 - 2022

  • Chief Innovation Officer

    2020 - 2022

2018 - 2020

  • Wireless design manager

    2018 - 2020

2011 - 2018

  • President / CEO / Founder

    2011 - 2018

2008 - 2011

  • RF-CMOS tranceiver design

    2008 - 2011

1994 - 2008

  • Business Line System Architect

    2005 - 2008

    System architect for BL STB&HMD (Set Top Boxes and Home Media Devices) In charge of architecture and technical roadmapping activities to support the BL business moving forward (100+M$ turnover). Key area of responsabilities: - Technical roadmapping (system, features, products and IPs) - Marketing support - Link to product development - Standardization activities (e.g. DVB, ...) - Consolidation of architecture activities and competences - DVB-T2 demodulator architecture

  • Hardware group leader

    2001 - 2005

    Management of a team of 12 enginners focused on SoC architecture and advanced IP creation supporting digital consumer applications leveraging state of the art design methodologies (SystemC, ASIP, mixed HW/SW solutions). Specific expertise on video decompression.

  • Lead SoC architect

    1998 - 2001

    Technical lead of a smaal team of SoC architects developping solution for the digital consumer market (STB, DVDR).

  • IC project leader

    1997 - 1998

    IC project leader for a 'first of a kind' one chip STB processor.

  • Verification engineer

    1996 - 1997

    Setup and deploy IC emulation flow as part of the design methodology for new complex SoCs.

  • IC design engineer

    1994 - 1996

    Designed several modules for digital consumer ICs and carried out different tasks throughout the IC design flow (RTL design, synthesis, verification, DfT, backend)