Today, the majority of leading players are from outside Europe. Despite current challenges, we believe in a distinctive value proposition of the European Tech ecosystem to accelerate the growth of future champions. We are looking for ambitious cross-European-markets start-ups ready to scale.

Context & Need:
Europe is showing a growing technological lag behind the United States and, in certain sectors, behind China. This gap, initially linked to the slower adoption of digital technologies, is now widening more broadly across a dozen key technological fields critical for future competitiveness, such as artificial intelligence, automation, and biotechnology. Moreover, technologies are increasingly playing a "cross-cutting" role, permeating all sectors of activity. As a result, even the industries where Europe has remained highly competitive—automotive, aerospace, luxury goods, retail, pharmaceuticals, etc.—could find themselves weakened in the medium term.
On top, in current EU environment, scaling and succeeding in finding the sweet spot for sustainable growth can be a challenge, being when entering new markets, developing and launching new products, deploying new Go-to-Market strategies, looking for investments, preparing for IPOs... We are keen on welcoming for this challenge European Start-ups that are reaching an inflection point in their growth.

Expected Solutions: This challenge is targeting especially the fields that are crucial for EU sovereignty (e.g. DeepTech, Climate & Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Health & BioTech, Quantum Computing, Automation, Advanced Materials...).

Scope: Europe