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December 10, 2019

Launching Europe’s “unicorn factory”

Jean-Eric Paquet has a €10bn war chest to turn the European Innovation Council into "the biggest deeptech equity fund in Europe.”


John Thornhill

5 min read

Jean-Eric Paquet

Jean-Eric Paquet, the EU’s urbane director general for research and innovation, has big ambitions for European startups. More importantly, the French official has a €10bn war chest, run by the European Innovation Council (EIC), to back his plans.

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John Thornhill

John Thornhill is Sifted’s founder and innovation editor of the Financial Times. He tweets from @johnthornhillft

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