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McWin is a private investment firm that focuses on Food Tech, Life Science, Clean Tech, Mobility Space Tech, Digitalization, and Fintech.McWin is a private equity firm founded by Henry McGovern and Steven K. Winegar partnering with exceptional founders and CEOs daring sustainable disruption, principally in the foodservice and food technology sectors.

Created by Audacia and Rymdkapital, Expansion is a €300M VC fund dedicated to supporting European Aerospace & Defence startups from Pre-Seed to Series B stages. At Expansion, we are committed to fostering innovation and growth within the Aerospace & Defence sector through strategic investments and support.

Polytechnique Ventures is the seed fund of Ecole Polytechnique, established in 2020 and financed by the Alumni. We accompany and invest in startups emerging from Ecole Polytechnique's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Our mission is to identify companies that offer robust solutions to the challenges of transitioning to tomorrow's world. We support startups that originate from the Ecole Polytechnique ecosystem, whether founded by alumni, incubated at the school, or originating from its laboratories. Our investment strategy focuses on early-stage financing, co-investing with average initial tickets ranging from €250K to €500K in pre-seed and seed stages, followed by further investments in Series A (average ticket per company around €2.5m). We prioritize ambitious deep tech teams capable of transforming the industrial sectors they target. Our At Polytechnique Ventures, we uphold values of proximity, particularly with entrepreneurs and the Ecole Polytechnique community; experience through our Alumni network and the X community; and generosity from all stakeholders contributing to the community built around our fund.

RKKVC is part of a single-family office. The fund is based in Warsaw, Poland, but invests throughout Europe and the United States. Our main focus is on software companies, mainly deep tech and B2B SaaS, but we are flexible and open to breakthrough companies from other areas. RKKVC is founder-oriented. The investment team actively supports its portfolio companies with its network and previous entrepreneurial experience throughout every stage of the founders' journey.

EuraTechnologies, The Financial Times' number 1 startup/tech hub in France, and top 30 in Europe, stands as one of the largest startup incubators on the continent. Annually, we serve hundreds of startups and enterprises, generating thousands of jobs and facilitating fundraising efforts that have surpassed half a billion Euros for our startups! STARTUP PROGRAMS We have developed 2 programs tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs: - The incubation program to turn ideas into businesses - The acceleration program for startups looking to grow in France, internationally, and considering fundraising Every year, EuraTechnologies supports over 200 startups across 5 sites, each focusing on specialized verticals: - Lille Leblan-Lafont: FinTech, InsurTech, EdTech/RHTech - Roubaix (Blanchemaille): RetailTech, PropTech, Mobility - Lille Wenov (Le Campus Cyber Hauts-de-France Lille Métropole): Cybersecurity - Willems: Agtech/Greentech - Saint-Quentin: Robotics, Industry, Spacetech CORPORATE PROGRAMS Our corporate programs assist large corporations and SMEs in their digital transformation and cybersecurity challenges, including: - Collaborations between startups and companies during Learning Expeditions or hackathons. - Continuous training programs such as the 'Innovation & Entrepreneurship' program in partnership with Stanford University or AI for businesses in partnership with the Catholic University of Lille. OFFICES & COWORKING EuraTechnologies offers coworking spaces and private offices to create shared environments where entrepreneurs can connect and engage with our dynamic and innovative ecosystem. EuraTechnologies is also an ideal venue for organizing and participating in business and tech events.

We support founders with our unique ecosystem and a clear mission to bring together the next generation of great entrepreneurs. We seek out those who challenge the status quo, who see opportunities where others see barriers. We're committed to empowering the most innovative minds, providing not just funding, but mentorship, guidance, and a network that fuels their growth.

Martlet Capital provides early stage patient capital and support. We look to help founders and ventures grow by providing added value beyond money. This may include helping companies build teams and boards, advising on strategy, connections to technical experts, customers and investors, as well as being part of the community of our portfolio companies. We always co-invest alongside others, such as angels, seed funds and VC’s. We usually invest upwards of £250k in a first round and have the capacity to follow on in subsequent investment rounds.

In a nutshell, Commercialization Reactor is a platform with a mission to commercialize science via a specific paradigm: Bring Scientists and Entrepreneurs together to co-create Deep-Tech startup aimed to commercialize the Core Competence of the Scientific Team. The Entrepreneurs become responsible to fulfill business leadership-related activities, taking into a full-time focus and Scientists focus exclusively on their core competence and inhale their knowledge and skills into a product or service that Entrepreneurial Team sets as a vector for business development strategy. This paradigm of commercialization together with over 10 years of experience in creating, pre-incubating and accelerating startups currently resulted in over 100 fully-formed Science-based startup companies born in CR. Most of those received investments are from various venture funds across the globe. Ultimately, this leads to unique Science-based startup creation and performance scoring methodology that is a core know-how of Commercialization Reactor. The methodology is proven successful by a fact of an exit, which already is in the arsenal of achievements of the CR Team.

Ahren is a deep tech and deep science investment firm set up by Alice Newcombe-Ellis alongside co-Founding Science Partners. Together, these Founders created companies and/or technologies that are today valued in excess of $100BN combined. The firm was established from first principles with a mission to be disruptive as an investment institution, with a new model – genuine partnership between the creators of deep technology and deep science, and commercially active, long-term capital, to harness tremendous global talent and build and exponentially accelerate the next generation of great enterprises. Ahren’s Portfolio companies include AI21 Labs, Graphcore, Zapata Computing, ZOE, Phaidra, Heirloom Carbon, and Bicycle Therapeutics among others. Ahren has >$800M AUM and has team members in Cambridge (UK), London, and Boston.

Final Frontier is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in visionary companies building critical space and defence technologies for a strategically independent Europe. The fund invests across the value chain, including areas such as satellite systems, propulsion, drones, cybersecurity, and autonomous platforms. Its focus is on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, with a preference for teams that have functional prototypes prepared for real-world application.

Founded in 2012, first as an angel fund, by Filip Dames and Christian Meermann, Cherry is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Berlin, London and Stockholm. They’re an investment team of former entrepreneurs and operators who’ve built fast-scaling companies such as Zalando, Spotify and Uber. At the moment, their entire team is working with +100 active portfolio companies across Europe with the support of their extensive entrepreneur pool of Europe’s top founders and operators from Dropbox, Zalando, Spotify, N26, Skype, Supercell, Wolt, Doordash and others.

Next Monday Ventures is a premier venture capital firm dedicated to powering innovation and fostering visionary founders. With a commitment to excellence, they provide strategic funding, expert guidance, and global networks to transform pioneering ideas into thriving businesses. With approximately 100 million euros in assets under management, Next Monday Ventures offers strategic guidance, invaluable industry insights, and a strong network to empower ambitious entrepreneurs and shape the future of innovation in Europe.