Mark Bünger

CTO

Biotech | Mobility | Food and ag | AI

Mark Bünger has 30 years of experience as a technology developer, management consultant, and entrepreneur in the US and Europe. He is cofounder and CTO of Futurity Systems, the head of research for the company’s team of analysts, and the architect of our deeptech research platform, Futurity Science Tools.

Mark previously worked at Lux Research, Forrester Research, Accenture, and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Corporate venture capitalists, product developers, and R&D teams at Adidas, BASF, BMW, IBM, Telefonica, IKEA, and more than 150 other Fortune 500 global companies have been Mark’s clients.

He has previously been a co-founder and/or on the management team of three successful startups.

Articles by Mark Bünger

A New Ethics of AI

An interspecies economy

Imagine a world where not only people (real and fictitious, i.e. corporations) had legal and economic standing: what if the Arctic had an accountant, and the Amazon an investment advisor?

Geopolitical impacts of the global urban population boom

Design Thinking for Deeptech

Food Fight: Metabolic Response versus “Better for you”

How cities learn – a new vision for smarter cities

Digital and green are todays trends, and in a citys lifespan, many more will come. Cities can stay smart by "learning" - planning today for changes their future citizens will make in centuries ahead

Infrastructure to 2100

Chinas Belt and Road Initiative is a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure project that will link West and East over land and sea; with goods, power, and data.

Intelligent Food Labels – Technology Horizons

Labels on food packaging serve many functions, most of them mundane: capturing consumers' attention on store shelves, showing how to use the product inside, or giving details about the company that made the product. Recently, however, multiple much more strategic motives have spurred an explosion in food label innovations.

New Urban Nomads

Rethinking citizen services, city revenues, and more for an age when residents flow freely

Orbital Opulence

As the orbital economy takes off, consumer markets ranging from tourism to health, food, and sport will follow. We look at some of the products and practices likely to get a boost in(to) space and back here on Earth.

Silverization is Civilization

Human civilization stands at a turning point. We are all definitely living longer, which has implications for everything from pensions and healthcare, to products and experiences we pay for, to humanity's rebel spirit and appetite for innovation. And if some of the most optimistic visions come true, we might live much, much longer than anyone before.

Synthetic biology Investment Landscape 1Q2023

Coming off two historically peak years in 2020 and 2021, venture investment in synthetic biology was down considerably in 2022. In the last quarter (Q4), startups in the field raised $2.7 billion.

Synthetic biology investor report 1Q23

Venture investment has fueled the growth of synthetic biology almost since the beginning. This regular report examines the spaces and startups attracting the most funding in 1Q23

The Age of Autonomous Commerce

Understanding Technological Unemployment in the Age of AI