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Tech Tour announces 2024 edition of the Tech Tour Growth50 List

Bryan Garnier is pleased to partner with Tech Tour at the 18th edition of the Tech Tour Growth50 Europe Summit in Paris on 8 February. The event will showcase 50 of Europe’s most promising companies with the biggest growth potential in the digital, health, and sustainability sectors.

Tech Tour has announced the 2024 edition of the Tech Tour Growth50 List.

The Growth50 Data reveals positive trends and interest insights for the European tech entrepreneurship and investment scene.

Tech Tour Growth50 Europe 2024 aims to foster collaboration of Europe’s top tech firms in digital, health and sustainability to long-term funding, success and impact. The summit promises a day filled with insights, inspiration, networking and fun.

Find out more about the event on the Tech Tour website .

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Aleph Alpha is an AI research and application company that researches, develops and operationalises large-scale AI models for language, image data and strategy, thereby contributing to securing Europe’s digital sovereignty.

Mistral AI is a platform that assembles team to develop the generative AI models. It creates and offers innovations for the artificial intelligence industry.

Pasqal b uild s programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D atomic arrays .

DNA Script was created to revolutionize DNA synthesis with enzymes. Core R&D efforts have produced innovations in enzyme engineering, surface and nucleotide chemistries, and instrumentation.

Impress is a l eading chain of orthodontic clinics of a new generation that has revolutionised the invisible orthodontic sector .

Quell Therapeutics is d eveloping next generation engineered T-regulatory cell therapies for a range of solid organ transplant and autoimmune condition s.

Carbon Clean is a n established global leader in industrial carbon capture solutions helping essential but hard-to-abate industrie s decarboni se.

Deepki is l eading the way in ESG for real estate owners and accelerating transition towards net zero and sustainabilit y .

Isar Aerospace d evelops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space for small and medium satellites .

About Bryan, Garnier & Co

Bryan, Garnier & Co is a European growth investment bank that helps healthcare and technology companies become global champions. By combining extensive sector expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset, Bryan Garnier provides companies and their investors with independent growth strategic advice, and privileged access to buyers and capital in Europe, the US and Asia.  

As a full-service investment bank, the firm offering includes private and public growth financing solutions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory, research insights, and institutional sales & execution. Founded in 1996, Bryan Garnier & Co is an independent partnership with around 200 employees located in major financial centres in Europe and the US.  

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Investors predict Europe's next unicorns at Tech Tour Growth

I recently had the pleasure of attending a Tech Tour Growth50  event hosted by  Tech Tour in Paris. These curated European events allow startups and scaleups to meet key industry professionals and foster potential partnerships and funding.

Tech Tour and over 90 of the most active international VCs and growth funds vote based on factors such as revenue growth, market potential, and funding raised. 

Here are the winners:

2023 growth award winners 

Digital: ICEYE (Finland)

ICEYE  owns and operates the largest constellation of radar-imaging satellites, providing customers with reliable and frequent imagery. This enables the rapid detection and tracking of changes on the Earth’s surface, regardless of time of day or weather conditions. 

This capability is vital for government and commercial uses, including insurance, natural catastrophe response and recovery, national security, defence, humanitarian relief and climate change monitoring.

ICEYE  has raised $313.3 million in funding over ten rounds. It most recently  raised  was $136 million in February 2022 from a Series D round.

Health: Huma (UK) 

Healthcare company   Huma  has developed an evidence-based, patient-centred platform for remote patient monitoring that improves connected care delivery to patients and accelerates research and therapies. 

It offers enhanced decision-making tools for clinicians, such as treatment and diagnostic recommendations for serious conditions and advanced triage alerts. 

The platform also supports decentralised and hybrid clinical trials that get effective treatments to patients faster.

In March this year, the company became the only company in the world to receive EU MDR 2017/745 Class IIb certification for a disease agnostic Software as a Medical Device. This makes Huma’s technology the highest classified configurable disease-agnostic platform in the sector today.

Huma  has raised $217 million in funding over ten rounds. It most recently raised £25 million from a Corporate Round in March 2022.

Sustainability: Refurbed (Austria)

Refurbed  is addressing the significant environmental impact of e-waste in the electronics industry, developing a resale platform to put more usable tech back out into the market. 

Since launching in 2017, it’s saved 170 tonnes of electronic devices from untimely death, resulting in a cumulative reduction in CO2 impacts by 31,000 tonnes.

Over 800,000 products have been traded hands via the platform, with the company planting one tree in Haiti, Madagascar, Kenya, Indonesia, Mozambique, or Nepal for every device sold.

Refurbed has raised $73.2 million in funding over four rounds, most recently raising  $54 million Series B in August 2021. 

The European Investment Council drives deep tech innovations

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is pivotal to the event, playing a significant role in achieving the EU’s deep tech innovation ambitions. It comes with a budget of over EUR 10 billion under the EU  Horizon Europe  programme and a mission to identify, support and scale up deep tech innovation. 

The following three companies from the  Growth50 list , which are also part of the EIC ScalingUp deep tech programme, received the honorary Investment Impact Award for having raised significant funding in the past 15 months despite the market conditions: 

PASQAL (France)

PASQAL  is a leader in neutral atoms quantum computing. Its quantum computers control neutral atoms with optical tweezers, using laser light to manipulate quantum registers with up to a few hundred qubits.

Cofounders include Alain Aspect, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum entanglement in 2022.

The company recently launched Quantum Discovery , the first neutral atoms quantum computing exploration platform for workplace teams. 

PASQAL has raised €127.5 million over seven rounds, most recently raising €100 million Series B in January 2023. 

SMART Photonics (The Netherlands)

SMART Photonics is an independent foundry for Indium Phosphide photonic integrated circuits, which provide small-scale integration and high performance combined with low energy consumption. 

Photonic integrated circuits enable a variety of next-generation communication and highly accurate sensor applications in telecoms, health care, smart mobility, and sustainable industrial processes.

The company has raised $78.2M million over six funding rounds.

IQM (Finland)

IQM  builds on-premises quantum computers for supercomputing data centres and research labs, providing full access to its hardware. Industrial customers benefit from a unique application-specific, co-design approach.

The company has raised  €233.8  million in funding over seven rounds. 

The Tech Tour Growth Europe event was co-organised by Tech Tour, EuroQuity-Bpifrance, BCG and Deepwave Ventures and is co-funded by the European Commission under the European Innovation Council (EIC) ScalingUp project.

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Tech Tour Growth50 List shows Europe’s sustained unicorn potential  

30 Jan 2024

Pragmatic and Riverlane recognised by the Tech Tour Growth50 List in its top 50 European growth companies and potential future unicorns.

Tech Tour announced the 2024 edition of the Tech Tour Growth50, as the prospect List of Europe’s future unicorns, spotlighting the European tech companies with the biggest growth potential. (See the Tech Tour Growth50 List below.)

This edition engaged over 90 investors on the Selection Panel [see list  here ] which first nominated and then voted to compose the List. The Programme is presided by Daniel Kahn of Red Bridge and the selection panel was led by Clara Audry of Jolt Capital (digital), Remy de Tonnac of ETF Partners (sustainability) and Janke Dittmer of Gilde Healthcare Partners (health).

“This year’s Tech Tour Growth50 List is a clear indication of the strength and diversity of Europe’s tech sector. It showcases the innovation, ambitious spirit, and fantastic growing successes of Europe’s most promising tech companies. As the leading European event for later stage tech companies, the Tech Tour Growth50 Europe 2024 Summit in Paris on 8 February is the key annual meeting platform between the company CEOs and the leading and most active growth investors.” – Daniel Kahn, Red Bridge, President, Tech Tour Growth 50 Europe 2024

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8 Technological Landmarks in Silicon Valley 

From a one-car garage to a 175-acre campus, some even offer tours.

Named of the silicon computer chips developed in the region, Silicon Valley , has become the world’s capital for technology development. it’s location south of San Francisco is home to many of the world’s largest technology companies and its proximity to Stanford University helped the region become the center of computer and engineering innovation since the late ‘60s. While the internet boom of the last 25 years has taken Silicon Valley to a new level of notoriety, the first publication of the term of “Silicon Valley” came in January 1971, showing the area’s technology rep goes back to the earliest growth of computing.

Today, the campuses of a select few tech companies are accessible to the general public — sadly, many are off-limits. But for any vacationer or local interested in getting up close to the development of the next iPhone or Intel processor, there are public-facing tech points of interest to check out.

Several Bay Area-based agencies provide day-long guided tours of Silicon Valley, but many tech-loving tourists opt to charge up their Teslas and self-navigate their own adventure. If that sounds like you, be sure to plug these stops into your GPS for the ultimate innovation itinerary.

Embrace your inner nerd. Of course you want to see Apple’s spaceship campus yourself. Here’s how you do it.

Apple Park Visitor’s Center , Cupertino

Earlier this year, Apple began welcoming employees to its new $5 billion, solar-panel clad spaceship-like headquarters , designed by British architect firm Foster+Partners. While the majority of the new 75-acre Apple Park is off-limits, you can take a virtual tour of the campus at the newly opened Visitor’s Center which according to Apple , is “a uniquely designed architectural extension of the new campus with similar aesthetics in staircases, stone walls and terrazzo floors.” The Center, which is independent of the home button-esque headquarters, features a model that can be explored in augmented reality , allowing users to “lift” the roof off the building to explore its interiors. There are cafe and roof terraces from which to admire the stunning building and some of the 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees planted on the site.

And, of course, an Apple Store in the building where in addition to picking up a new device, you can also purchase Apple-branded apparel and gifts, including an old-fashioned deck of actual playing cards.

Address: 10600 N Tantau Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014

Apple Park Visitor Center

HP Customer Welcome Center , Palo Alto

Housed in the original offices of co-founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard , the HP Customer Welcome Center offers an immersive display of HP’s innovative products for home and office, as well as demos in 3D printing and VR and a replica office with memorabilia from the early days of the company.

If you want to go even further down memory lane, you can swing by the garage where Bill and Dave got their start. The garage was granted landmark status in 1989 but is not open to the public, so a picture from the sidewalk will have to suffice.

Address: Building 4, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304

The garage that spawned HP.

Tesla , Palo Alto

Though Tesla informed us that public tours are not currently given at their Palo Alto headquarters, that doesn’t mean you can’t test drive one of their vehicles at any retail location.

You’ll need an appointment ahead of time, so make sure you book through their website . If you do end up buying a car, you have a chance to request a tour of their Fremont factory, so be sure to inquire when you hand over that 100 grand.

Headquarters Address (not open to the public): 3500 Deer Creek Road. Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tesla Store: 4180 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306

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Google ’s Googleplex - Mountain View

What began in a Menlo Park garage is now two-million square-foot campus complete with an organic vegetable garden, tennis courts, scores of “ gbikes ,” and a bronze-cast replica of a t-rex skeleton. Google’s headquarters, known as the “Googleplex,” is known for its quirky, innovative landscape and incredible employee perks (massage rooms, swimming pools, three free meals a day, nap pods).

Sadly, most of this stuff has a strict look-don’t-touch status. Do not attempt to ride the gbike! But you are free to roam around the grounds, including the Android statue lawn . Based off the dessert-named versions of the Android mobile operating system like Jellybean, Doughnut, and Ice Cream Sandwich, they make for a great photo-op regardless of which smartphone you’re snapping with.

Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043

Intel Museum - Santa Clara

Putting the silicon in Silicon Valley since 1968, Intel is one of the oldest high-tech companies in the area. Perhaps that’s why they’ve created their own museum right at company headquarters. Visitors are immersed in semiconductor and microchip history and can even try on a bunny suit–the mandatory full-body white suit worn to protect microprocessors from any contaminants.

Address: 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Shockley Semiconductor Lab - Mountain View

All that’s left of the first high-tech company in Silicon Valley is a plaque on the sidewalk and a roadside sign. William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Mountain View, CA in 1956 in a small commercial lot. Along with a team of young scientists and engineers, he worked on a transistor that used silicon rather than the traditional germanium as a semiconductor. But some of his young employees, now notoriously known as the “Traitorous Eight,” broke off to start up a new venture called Fairchild Semiconductor. And then, two of those employees left to start up another new venture called Intel. The original Shockley Lab has been demolished, and the rest is start up history.

Address: 351 San Antonio Rd Mountain View, CA 94040

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory: This site, 391 South San Antonio Road, is the former location of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. At this location in 1956, Dr. William Shockley started the first silicon device research and manufacturing company in the valley. 

Facebook -Menlo Park, CA

A 43,000 square-foot open plan office designed by Frank Gehry, a 9-acre roof garden with teepee swings and 400 trees, free electronics vending machines, an old school arcade, psychedelic murals, free froyo: Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park are pretty cool. But unless you know someone on the inside who can show you around, the only thing you’ll be able to “like” here is the thumbs up sign at the entrance of 1 Hacker Way. Considering the Zuck covers his laptop camera with tape , it’s not surprising that this place is closed to the public.

Address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Computer History Museum -Mountain View, CA

With the largest collection of computer-related artifacts in the world, the Computer History Museum is definitely worth a visit while you’re touring Silicon Valley.

There are 19 galleries with over 1,100 objects, and plenty of hands-on experiences: Take a seat in a Waymo self-driving car, learn to code, and check out a demo of the one-ton “microcomputer” from 1959, PDP-1, as it runs what may have been the first computer game– SpaceWar!

Address: 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043

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