Opinion

December 5, 2022

What does a late-stage European deeptech business actually look like?

Europe needs a template for deeptech success in order to create more homegrown giants


Zoe Reich and Amy Nommeots-Nomm

Europe’s not very good at building major deeptech companies. The continent has a thriving early-stage ecosystem and limitless potential but we’ve created few globally significant giants in the past decade. 

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