Daniela Buchmayr

Daniela started her career in an optical media startup — formative years that planted the entrepreneurial seed early. From there, she spent 15 years in large international corporations, supplying manufacturing equipment to the biopharmaceutical industry and OEM products to the medical and diagnostic sector. She grew from key account management through business and market development into innovation management — continuously stretching her horizon and learning how to influence success: deepening her grip on strategic clarity, persistence, adaptability, and the ability to align people behind a shared goal. But the appetite for truly disruptive innovation in large corporations kept hitting its limits. So in 2019, she founded Sarcura — a deep tech startup pioneering miniaturised, autonomous cell factories on silicon chip. She raised over €15 million, built a team of 28, and pushed the technology to the frontier of biotech and semiconductor engineering. Sarcura filed for insolvency last year — while difficult, the experience of betting on bold ideas and building something meaningful from scratch now fuels what comes next.