Investment-Grade Content, Documents, and Stories
Turn Complexity Into Conviction. Raise Capital. Close Rounds. Tell Your Story.
Work with Award-Winning Storytellers Who Are Serial Founders and Deep Domain Experts.
Why Founders and Funds Choose Us
CFA Charterholder: We understand finance and speak the language of institutional investors.
Serial Entrepreneur: We have sat on your side of the table.
Angel Investor: We know the investor perspective and have studied offering documents and deals.
Deep Tech Specialists: We understand complex technology and science, not just business.
Published Author: World-class publishers like Wiley, Palgrave, Springer-Nature, and Emerald Publishing have published our books, chapters and research monographs.
Investment-Grade Output: Documents that satisfy due diligence.
Complete Privacy and Security: We leverage AI with local and private LLMs, so your data never touches the cloud.
Our Founder
Manuel Stagars, CFA is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, award-winning film producer, and former senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). He founded Story-Driven Science to help technical founders with breakthrough ideas to articulate their investment case. We bridge the gap between complex innovation and capital markets.
Manuel has a natural grasp of complex subject matter and a talent to make it compelling and easy to understand. He holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), the CFA and the CAIA designations, and he is also an Energy Risk Professional (ERP). His documentary films about fintech, blockchain technology, and deep tech have won numerous international prizes and have screened all around the world. He has guest lectured about scientific storytelling at universities in Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, China, and Harvard University in the United States.
By founding Story-Driven Science, Manuel pursues his vision to make fascinating and complex topics in tech and science accessible and help projects secure the capital they need to grow. His team works with global production companies, distribution platforms, and academic institutions to make the biggest possible impact for clients and their innovations.
Our Services, Your Capital Advantage
We work with you over the entire capital and content journey, from early-stage concept, production, to distribution. We support you in fundraising through all stages all the way to private exit or IPO.
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Investment-Grade Documents
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Discovery and DevelopmentIn consultation with you, we sharpen your key messages for investor documents and communication on all channels and create a content production and distribution strategy around them. We support you in the decision to make or buy in all stages of development and production. |
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GhostwritingText is key in communication with investors, clients and partners. We ghostwrite your whitepapers, lightpapers, investor documents, and even regular articles and full-fledged books that tell your story and make an impact. Benefit from our experience working with major publishing houses. Our professionals write your story in various formats with minimal time comittment from you and maximum impact with your target audience. We work with your marketing team to create the launch strategy for your insights and make the most of your readers’ engagement. |
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Films and Visual Content StrategyMoving images are much more than an explainer video or short clip on TikTok. We create high-end films and documentaries about your technology, science, products and services from pre-production to final screening. The same video content takes on many forms as long-form, full-length building blocks, short-form and snippets, each with their individual distribution platforms. Our approach to video provides intelligent content for your online and offline communication with a life of many years. |
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PhotographyWe grow your library of image assets with stunning documentary photography of your processes, your team, your mission, and your adventures on the journey to making the world a better place. Your individual library supports every campaign to make a lasting impression with your investors, your clients, your peers and your competition. |
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Audio and PodcastsPodcasts and audio stories capture customers on the go and open up completely new communication channels for you. They position you as an enabler in the field and create an expert platform around your brand. We develop and produce your high-end podcast from beginning to finish. Our experts can even host your podcast full-service. |
Pitch, Persuade, Close.
All of our services are available on-demand or on a subscription basis. Reach out today to understand how we can create investment-grade documents for you in the most effective way and the least time spent for you.
Network
We have worked with the following academic institutes, platforms, publishers, and partners.
What Our Clients Say
“Story-Driven Science has brought our technology to life with films, a podcast, images and a whitepaper. They have opened completely new fundraising avenues for us. Our content now sparks questions in the minds of potential investors and clients.”
– CMO at a Blockchain/DLT Company
“Story-Driven Science developed a MasterClass format with our technical knowledge that we were never able to share before. We now have a tool to communicate complex processes with our partners and investors and attract new hires. I don’t know anybody else who could have made this happen.”
– Founder and CEO of a biotech company
“We are excited about the visual campaign that Story-Driven Science has created for us. They completely changed the way we think about phrasing our messages (think ‘benefits not features’) and how we communicate with our partners.”
– Communications Director at a Sustainable Energy Investment Fund
Knowledge Base
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