Maximilian Schwarz built Nucleus Capital from the ground up with childhood friend Dr. Isabella Fandrych, starting out as an angel investor and syndicate before turning it into a full fund, and even though he isn't a scientist, he taught himself synthetic biology deeply enough to back founders before they have a product or any certainty the science will work, using tools like his Made with Biology Funding Napkin to turn early-stage cost, margin, and scaling questions into something founders can actually use. He's also known for believing deep tech holds real structural advantages over software, for pushing scientific founders to explain their work clearly instead of relying on the science alone to speak for itself, and for taking a narrower, more specific approach to climate investing rather than treating climate as one broad category.