Solving the Commercialisation Gap

​Europe is building world-class deep and climate tech. The challenge is not innovation; it is scale.

​At the crucial Series B stage, where technologies move from prototype to production, European rounds average 20% below their US equivalents - leaving an estimated €2.7 billion gap every year at exactly the moment companies need it most. The result: Europe invents the technologies of the future, then watches others commercialise them.

​Join us to hear founding partner Craig Douglas at World Fund present their research on the structural barriers behind Europe's missing Series B rounds. You will also hear from Bodil Holst, CEO & Co-Founder of Lace Lithography, on their ambition to scale groundbreaking atom-beam chip patterning technology - a case study in what European deep tech can achieve with the right capital behind it.

​We then hand it over to you. At the tables, we ask what it will take to close the gap between prototype and production - mobilising institutional capital, building larger domestic funds, and expanding blended-finance models that can de-risk investment at scale.

​Join this session if you are an LP, pension fund, start-up, scale-up, or asset allocator to move beyond the diagnosis and into the solutions.

​Looking forward to meeting you there!

This roundtable is exclusively available to registered attendees of the Startuplab Summit only: https://luma.com/orv3ufu7