Investors, buyers and future hires read your site before your papers. Most of them are not experts.
Deep tech web design that makes hard technology easy to believe
Why it matters
Most deeptech startups share the same problem: breakthrough technology, solid proof, yet a website that fails to make any of it legible to investors, partners, or enterprise buyers.
The problem
Years of R&D, explained in a sentence nobody outside the lab understands.
Why deep tech websites lose investors and buyers
Breakthrough technology rarely fails on the science. It fails on the page, when a website can't translate years of R&D into something an investor, a buyer, or a future hire can understand and trust in thirty seconds.
The traps
Trap 0101 / 04
Jargon first
Lost in acronyms
The page opens on the physics, not on the problem it solves. Investors and buyers leave before they know what you do.
Trap 0202 / 04
Claims, no outcomes
Breakthrough, but no results
Years of R&D, yet no pilot, no use case and no measured result on the page. There is nothing concrete to believe.
Trap 0303 / 04
Light where it should be rigorous
A template that looks light
A SaaS template signals a quick product. Deep tech has to signal rigor, depth and the years behind it.
Trap 0404 / 04
Nothing to see
How it works stays hidden
No diagram, no architecture, no 3D. The visitor never sees how the technology works, so never quite trusts it.
The deeptech market, in numbers
European deeptech is no longer niche. It's where the capital, the talent, and the scrutiny now concentrate. The bar for how you present your technology has never been higher. Standing out is no longer optional.
European VC, 2025
$20.3B
Invested in European deeptech in 2025, just 4% below the all-time high.
Ecosystem value
$690B
The combined value of VC-backed European deeptech companies.
Capital shift
32%
Of all European VC went to deeptech in 2025, up from 15% in 2015.
First impression
50ms
The time it takes visitors to judge a web page's visual appeal.
Source: Dealroom, Lakestar & Walden Catalyst, European Deep Tech Report 2026 · Dealroom, European Deep Tech Report 2026 · Lindgaard et al., Behaviour & Information Technology, 2006
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Public sources behind the figures on this page
- 01Dealroom, Lakestar & Walden Catalyst, European Deep Tech Report 2026
- 02Dealroom, European Deep Tech Report 2026
- 03Lindgaard et al., Behaviour & Information Technology, 2006
We only publish figures we can trace: every number links back to a public report, dataset or survey.
How we work with DeepTech
We read the papers before we draw a page
We've built for Hylight (YC S23), Kestrix, and Skipper NDT. We read white papers, understand hardware and data pipelines, and we know what to keep, what to cut, and how to stage what's left.
Step 01
Brief & Immersion
We dig into your tech through your deck, publications and founder interviews before we design.
Step 02
Branding & Art Direction
We craft your identity: logo, palette, typography, into a coherent, ownable direction.
Step 03
Wireframing
We map each page as a low-fidelity skeleton, locking the structure before any visuals.
Step 04
Design & 3D
We turn the brand into final UI, custom 3D scenes, and motion that brings it all to life.
Step 05
Website Build & Integration
We ship a fast site on Framer, Astro or Next.js, with structured data and clean technical SEO.
Selected work
Deep tech we have put on the web
BotBlox: moving data where ethernet was never meant to run
Hylight: an aerial inspection technology driven by design.
Skipper NDT: automating energy infrastructure maintenance
Kestrix: making thermal data readable to accelerate building retrofit
- Fundraising
- B2B sales pipeline
- Technical hiring
- Industrial partnerships
- Going international
Services
The services we bring to this sector.
Brand identity for techLogo, type, color and art direction.View service
3D websitesReal-time 3D that explains the product.View service
Investor-ready websiteThe site investors check after the first meeting.View service
Pitch deck & investor kitEquity story, teaser, pitch deck, detailed deck and one-pager.View service
How much does a deeptech startup website cost?
For a deeptech company, most of the budget goes into making the technology legible: the technical storytelling, and the 3D or WebGL that shows what a photo cannot. A deeptech website built in Framer typically ranges from $10,000 to $20,000; with a brand identity, custom 3D and full technical storytelling, projects usually range from $20,000 to $50,000, and complete programs for a fundraise go further. If your budget is tight, we phase the work: the site first, the 3D next.
Can you build our website during a fundraise or accelerator batch?
Yes. We redesigned the website of Hylight (YC S23) about a year after their seed round, while the team was hiring and scaling. We know what investors check on a deeptech site: a value proposition they can repeat, a verifiable team page, and visible proof.
How do you explain complex technology without dumbing it down?
With a layered narrative: a plain-language sentence first, then the mechanism shown visually (3D, diagrams, scroll-driven animation), then specs and papers one click away. Generalist investors get it in seconds; technical reviewers find the depth they need.
Do you actually understand the science behind our product?
We're a team of designer-engineers. We read white papers and understand hardware, data pipelines and AI systems before designing anything. That's how we've built for hydrogen airships (Hylight), thermal mapping (Kestrix) and pipeline inspection (Skipper NDT).
How long does a deeptech website take?
Between 4 and 12 weeks. A standard marketing site takes 4–6 weeks; a project with branding, custom 3D and full technical copywriting runs 8–12. We can compress for a funding deadline if you tell us early.
Why choose Junca for a deep tech website?
Because deeptech is our core, not a side vertical: Hylight (YC S23), Kestrix and Skipper NDT trusted us to turn years of R&D into websites that investors, buyers and future hires understand in one scroll.
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