Nihal Kurth

Co-Founder

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany16 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Founder of Deeptech Decoded, bridging tech and real-world impact.
  • Extensive experience across startups and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Expert in product strategy and AI-driven solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Strategist with expertise in AI and deep tech across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalProduct ManagementGo-to-market StrategyCustomer SuccessProduct LaunchMachine LearningBusiness IntelligenceOptimizationIt Strategy

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)FundraisingProduct DevelopmentTeam BuildingEngineering ManagementEarly-Stage StartupsBusiness InsightsForecastingBusiness AviationAlgorithm DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipMathematical ModelingProduct IdeationCollaborative Problem SolvingResearch and Development (R&D)

About

In product and in life, taste and energy are everything. The rest you can figure out. Product strategist with a CS background who's built in nearly every scenario imaginable. Early-stage to unicorn, big tech to Fortune 500s, including her own startup. Across 16 countries. Now open-sourcing it all at Deeptech Decoded, turning it into the reasoning layer between frontier tech and what actually matters. For the 1% who know what they are onto. And mostly misunderstood What I've learned so far → Building a product starts with solving a real problem, but success comes through iteration and deep product sense. And neither follows a playbook. They emerge through judgment, iteration and reasoning from first principles. Started my first business at 12. Still figuring things out, just with better tools. Favourite ice cream flavor: Hay. Yep, you read that right. Building what doesn't exist yet? Let's trade notes. ~ Newsletter → deeptechdecoded.substack.com Podcast → youtube.com/@deeptechdecodedai X → @nihalkurth

Experience

Deeptech decoded

Founder

May 2025Present · 10 mos

  • A newsletter and podcast for builders creating what doesn't exist yet, from quantum computing to orbital infrastructure, superintelligence to AGI.
  • Kitchen-table conversations where we think out loud about product decisions that have no playbook.
  • Raw. Unscripted. Reasoning from first principles.
  • Subscribe → deeptech-decoded.com

Veecle

2 roles

Chief Evangelist

May 2024Dec 2024 · 7 mos

Advisor

Jul 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Included vc

2 roles

Venture Capital Fellow Alumni

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Venture Capital Fellow (Class '23)

Mar 2023Jan 2024 · 10 mos

  • 1-3% admission rate
Venture Capital

Neev finance

Advisor

Sep 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Menudata

Advisor

Sep 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Logsight.ai

Advisor

Nov 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Berlin, Germany

Roadbird

Advisor

Sep 2022Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Self employed

Advisor & Product Strategist

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Global

  • Tinkering with AI and deep tech products to help reimagine the future.
  • Collaborating with early-stage founders from the Bay Area and Europe on product/market fit, product development, customer development, tech team building, hiring and fundraising.

Operaize

Head of Product & Market Strategy

Feb 2022Jul 2022 · 5 mos

  • Operaize, a Cologne-based startup, focuses on AI-powered optimization for production planning and scheduling. Wore all hats: product, funding, partnerships, analytics, GTM.
  • Backed by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF), and NRW.BANK, and recognized as an SAP Silver Partner.

Sap leanix

2 roles

Engineering Manager & Product Manager

Feb 2020Feb 2022 · 2 yrs

  • (acquired by SAP for $1.2bn in 2023)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)FundraisingProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementTeam BuildingGo-to-Market Strategy

Customer Success Manager

Feb 2019Feb 2020 · 1 yr

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementTeam BuildingProduct Launch

Amazon

Senior Program Manager

Jul 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Luxembourg City / London

Customer Success

Dhl

5 roles

Product (AI/ML)

Jan 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Early-Stage StartupsProduct LaunchBusiness Insights

Business Intelligence Consultant

Jul 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Machine LearningProduct LaunchForecasting

Process Engineer

Jul 2011Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

Business IntelligenceBusiness Aviation

IT Strategist & Specialist

Jan 2011Jul 2011 · 6 mos

Optimization

IT Strategy & IT Project Portfolio Management

Oct 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

IT Strategy

Hugo boss

Product

Oct 2008Aug 2009 · 10 mos

  • The production planning and scheduling
IT Strategy

İzmir university of economics

Teaching Assistant | Computer Science

Feb 2008Jun 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos · Izmir, Turkey

  • Teaching assistant to the dean and multiple professors:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Industrial Information Systems
  • Operations Research and Mathematical Modeling
Algorithm DevelopmentProduct Launch

Education

University of Cambridge

Deep Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Eindhoven University of Technology

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Izmir University of Economics

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) — Industrial Systems Engineering

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