🚀 Funding & Co-development Opportunities for WaterTech Startups

Join the Deep ConneXion WaterTech to collaborate with industry leaders in Europe

UM6P France is launching Deep ConneXion, a support program for European DeepTech startups seeking to tackle the technological challenges of Africa’s transition issues.

This 1st edition, developed in partnership with WILCO, a European leading tech accelerator based in Paris, focuses on generating partnership opportunities (business, technological and industrial) between European Watertech startups and UM6P’s techno-industrial ecosystem.

Learn more below ⬇️

What can you receive?

• Funding opportunities through our investment players.
• WaterTech-focused expertise and shared experience.
• Industry and partnership-oriented training modules.
• Business opportunities and priviledged connections.
• Co-develop opportunities and test solutions in experimental or real-world conditions through industrial pilot projects.

What themes can you apply for?

• Desalination: Energy challenge; Fouling challenge; Scaling challenge; Life time management.
• By-products & Waste Management: Extraction of added-value elements from brine; Waste water management.
• Purification & Drinking Water: Purification; Water quality monitoring; Personalized treatment; Drinking water production.
• Optimization of Water Facilities & Infra: Prediction of failure; Leaks detection; Sensor for corrosion, scaling, biology; Robotics for maintenance.
• Irrigation: New soil irrigation technologies; Irrigation optimization.
• Advanced Water Technologies: Predictive AI; Physical, physico-chemical, biocompatible treatments or filtration; Dedicated monitoring sensors; New industrial processes; New membranes; Specific materials & water/material interaction.

What is the content?

• 1 bootcamp in France (January, Paris)
• 1 bootcamp in Morocco (Early April, Morocco)
• Online sessions (January-May)

⏰ Register by December 9, 2024

🔗 Apply here!

🏆 Success Story: Winners from the FoodTech Challenge 2023

🚀 Have you had a chance to join the FoodTech Challenge 3.0?

What are the benefits? Receive up to $2 million in funding, collaborate with leading partners to develop innovative solutions, and expand your startup's impact in the UAE and Global South.

Who won the previous edition? Meet Richard Kohn, Global Marketing Director & Head of External Relations at iyris , shares insights on his experience with the competition and the role that the FoodTech Challenge has played on iyris' remarkable journey. iyris also recently announced the completion of a $16M Series A fundraise to further scale their solutions. 

ℹ️ Check out our global competitions here!

Our team of experts would be pleased to assist you. Feel free to contact 📣 Alexander Young at alexander.young@agorize.com if you have any questions or inquiries.

Best of luck,

The Agorize Team