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🚀 Excited to speak at the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit! Come network all founders, LPs, and investors interested in advanced tech 👇 The European deeptech scene is on fire - with €1.4B in fresh EIC grant funding for European deeptech founders announced for 2025. 250+ M&A deals are forecasted for 2024, with at least 20 deals above $100M, bringing liquidity to the VC market. Our recently published investment in Ephos , Inc. (Italy) shows our commitment to Southern European deeptech. And we're just getting started. Want to explore opportunities in one of Europe's fastest-growing sectors? (18.7% CAGR through 2034) Let's connect in Barcelona! Whether you're an LP, founder, or fellow investor - I'd love to discuss how we can build the future of European deep tech together. See you at Barcelona Deep Tech Summit ⚛️ #angelinvesting #familyoffices #VentureCapital #deeptech

🚀 Hello from the Heart of Deep Tech 👋 These couple of days, all tech eyes are on Paris, as hundreds of start-ups (like ourselves), co-founders and investors are working together on solving the toughest global challenges. 💥 Representing phelas, our CEO Justin is in Paris talking to many like-minded pioneers as well exploring how ours and other technological solutions make this planet a better place. 🌎 Are you also at Hello Tomorrow and want to know more about phelas? 🔍 Drop a message below and we will try to set up a meeting with our CEO. #Hellotomorrow #Paris #phelas #Deeptech #Innovation #Technology #Sustainability

🇧🇷 Brazil among the TOP innovation destinations! I’m extremely happy to see Brazil stand out on the list of top locations for innovation and technology. 🚀 As a deep tech pioneer and a semifinalist in the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge back in 2019, it’s inspiring to see how much our nation has grown and strengthened every day. At that time, our country wasn’t yet recognized as a global reference, but today we are carving out our space and showing the world the immense potential of our science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This evolution is the result of collective efforts: resilient startups, visionary entrepreneurs, investors believing in local talent, and policies that are gradually boosting this ecosystem. The future is bright, and Brazil is already on the map of global innovation! 🌎✨ #Innovation #DeepTech #Startups #BrazilOnTheRise #BioTech #HelloTomorrow

Deep Tech in Europe 🇪🇺 McKinsey & Company published a new study on European deep tech. While clearly, deep tech plays an increasingly important role in our venture ecosystem, there are also still some gaps in downstream financing. The good: European venture capital funding for Deep Tech has seen a substantial increase, soaring from 10% in 2010 to 44% in 2023. European share of deep tech funding increased from 10% in 2019 to 19% in 2023. Deep tech is likely to produce outsized returns. The bad: 40% of growth capital and 60% of top acquirers are non-European players. I hope to see more later-stage deep tech funds emerging in Europe! #venturecapital #deeptech McKinsey & Company Tobias Henz Markus Berger-de León Nucleus Capital Maximilian A. Schwarz Carolina Villa

Our colleague Cyril Vančura will be a panelist at the TNW Conference tomorrow. Together with deep tech VCs Nicolas Autret (Walden Catalyst Ventures), Thomas Oehl (Vsquared Ventures), and Sander Verbrugge (Innovation Industries), he will discuss the State of European Deep Tech. Moderated by Victoria Slivkoff (Extreme Tech Challenge), the panel will address critical questions such as: 🔹⁠Can Europe produce the next NVIDIA? 🔹What are the hurdles and opportunities for creating leading AI hubs in Europe? 🔹Why are historically risk-averse European LPs more open to backing deep tech ventures? 🔹Does the US offer a better environment for European deep tech companies in terms of funding, expansion, and exit strategies? Don't miss out on what promises to be an enlightening discussion. #TNW2024 #ExtremeTechChallenge #DeepTech #TNW #TNWconference

"Is the UK a hard place for DeepTech funding?" I always love answering this question. The UK and Europe is one of the best places for DeepTech funding! 🤘 We have some of the best DeepTech funds based right here in Cambridge with Cambridge Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Martlet Capital and Amadeus Capital Partners. Last year, The 2023 European DeepTech Report reported the UK was one of the top three countries to receive the most DeepTech funding across Europe seeing a total $3.4 billion raised. 💥 DeepTech is one of the most resilient funding sectors to be in right now. 🚀🚀🚀 Cambridge Future Tech Lucie Polakova #venturebuilding #deeptech #deeptechfunding #cambridge Pic: Talking careers in tech at University of Cambridge 🤘

🌟 Mark Your Calendars! 🌟 We’re proud to share that our CEO, Charlie Day, will be a panelist at the upcoming webinar, “How Do You Scale Deep Tech Ventures?” hosted by Monash University. Join us as Charlie and other industry experts explore strategies for scaling deep tech businesses. #DeepTech #ScalingVentures #Monash #CxT23

Early birds catch the worm, early tech investors catch the unicorns 🦄 With rapid advancements in tech and AI driving innovation, companies are creating immense value before they even go public. This shift offers a rare opportunity for investors to get in early with the tech superstars of tomorrow, thanks to lower valuations in private markets. Through RAC VII and the Summit Fund, we’re unlocking the economic potential of European innovation together with our investors by backing the startups that are reshaping industries and driving the future of tech at the continuum of science and software - from Proxima Fusion making fusion energy a reality, to modernizing the genetic toolbox with ExpressionEdits Edits and much more. 👀 Watch the full interview with Michael and Sebastian to learn more about our hands-on approach to supporting our portfolio and how speaking the same language as founders creates lasting impact: https://lnkd.in/dZ9U3Uzh #TechInnovation #PrivateMarkets #VentureCapital

Today is DTU Startup Day and I look forward to speak about how we build deep tech champions in Europe. I will be joined by investors Anna Lundin from Norrsken VC and Tommy Ahlers from Look Up Ventures. The three of us come with different backgrounds as well as different perspectives on science based innovation, but I expect us all to be bullish on the potential of deep tech! In our panel talk we will wrap our heads around the journey from lab to market, including how we bridge the gap from university spin-out to the venture journey. All in all, some perspectives on how we build ecosystems fostering bigger, better, and stronger deep tech champions in Europe. With DTU being Danish champion in converting research into innovation - as previously found in an innovation analysis - expectations are high for the event overall, and in particular the +60 participating early-stage companies. Looking forward to engage with the DTU innovation ecosystem. #DTU #ScienceBasedInnovation #Deeptech Jakob Rybak-Andersen Marianne Hyltoft Agnethe Leonora Hjarnø Boysen Jacob Graves Beck Søren Jessen Nielsen #PSVDeepTech

Nasscom Future Forge 2024: Accelerating Deep Tech Growth! The countdown to Nasscom Future Forge 2024 has started, 5 more days to go before this much awaited event kicks off. I am pretty excited to attend this event with the central theme for this year being Accelerating Deep Tech growth!  As a software Product leader, I am especially interested in the startup showcases to see how deeptech is being leveraged to design innovative solutions to address challenges in the areas of wellness, mobility and space exploration! Fellow professionals and Startup founders, eager to chat to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore opportunities to work together. (image credit: Nasscom Future Forge website) #nasscomfutureforge, #deeptech