Hello Tomorrow

Connects global corporations and startups through competition administration and partner-backed innovation events.

Hello Tomorrow is a French deep-tech ecosystem organization founded in 2011. It works globally from France with 72 representatives across 30 countries and more than 150 university and accelerator partnerships, and it is best known for connecting startups, investors, corporates, and researchers around deep-tech commercialization.

Its flagship funding route is the annual Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge, which awards up to €100,000 in equity-free prizes across 15 technology tracks. The competition targets early-stage startups, generally from breakthrough idea through Series A, and culminates in the Hello Tomorrow Summit in Amsterdam each June.

Hello Tomorrow is closer to a competition administrator than a traditional grantmaker, but that role matters because it manages a global intake for deep-tech teams in aerospace, climate, energy, biotech, robotics, semiconductors, materials, and related fields. It also administers partner-funded calls for groups such as ASML, L'Oréal and Genopole, and ESA Φ-Lab, which gives founders a clear prize-backed route into investor and corporate networks.