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 as Craig Douglas, Founding Partner at World Fund, presents their research on the structural barriers behind Europe’s missing Series B rounds.

​We’ll then open up the conversation in a panel discussion. Daragh Brown will share insights from EIF, one of Europe's largest venture investors. Bodil Holst, CEO and Co-Founder of Lace Lithography, will talk about their ambition to scale groundbreaking atom-beam chip patterning technology.

​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