Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
Hello Tomorrow has run this competition since 2014, and its past winners and finalists have gone on to raise more than $3 billion in funding combined. Selected teams get 1-to-1 coaching and investor introductions, a place at the Global Summit, one-on-one meetings with more than 150 VCs and corporate VCs at Investor Day, and ongoing access to the Deep Tech Pioneers community. The top three teams sp…
The Global Challenge backs early-stage deep tech startups across many industries -- aerospace, energy, biotech, digital health, materials and more -- whose work is based on a new technology, scientific discovery or complex engineering process addressing an unmet industrial, societal or environmental need. Teams must be pre-Series A, at least two people, and not a spin-off of an existing company.
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