Imec is a world-leading R&D hub for nano- and digital technologies. It’s home to more than 5,000 researchers and hosts a first-class infrastructure – including the world’s most advanced 300mm cleanroom for research purposes. On top of that, it’s at the heart of the deep-tech ecosystem, connecting partners from the realms of industry and academia. Since its inception in 1984, imec has launched over 40 spin-offs and contributed to the success of startups such as Axelera AI, Xanadu and Biotelemetry. It welcomes truly disruptive ideas and guides them to commercial maturity. That includes the development, prototyping, low-volume manufacturing and even mass production of ASICs, advanced technologies, and complex microdevices. Finally, imec knows that start-and scale-ups need more than technology. Its venturing teams offer business support, access to talent and even funding – both through imec’s own investment funds and through its network of deep-tech investors.

Bryan, Garnier & Co is a European, full service growth-focused independent investment banking partnership founded in 1996. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading, private and public capital raising as well as M&A services to growth companies and their investors. It focuses on key growth sectors of the economy including Technology, Media & Telecoms, Healthcare, Smart Industries & Energy, Consumer, Brands & Retail and Business Services. Bryan, Garnier & Co is a fully registered broker dealer authorised and regulated by the FCA in Europe and the FINRA in the U.S. Bryan, Garnier & Co is headquartered in London, with additional offices in Paris, Munich and New York. The firm is a member of the London Stock Exchange and Euronext.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's legacy closely traces the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley. For nearly six decades, the firm has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation. Today, Wilson Sonsini is synonymous with ushering promising, innovative companies through their business life cycle. And as their clients have grown, so has the firm. They now represent many of the largest companies in the world, and thousands of the smallest ones, too. Since its inception, Wilson Sonsini has maintained an active role in Silicon Valley's technology ecosystem by continuing the work they do with top innovators and entrepreneurs, and the funding sources that support them. Their position as the leading provider of legal services to technology and life sciences clients was earned by representing the disruptive, market-creating companies that influenced every milestone marking an evolution in technology - from the semiconductor, computer, and software pioneers of the 1970s and 1980s to today's life sciences, internet, and social media innovators.

EIC ScalingUp is a project dedicated to creating a model for European deep tech companies which received funding by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to scale beyond Series B/C and to connect with strategic investors and partners. In the first phase of the project the best performing 50 European deep tech growth companies were chosen by a Selection Committee of experienced investors voted for those with the highest growth and financial potential in the key domains - Digital, Heath, Sustainability. As a next step, more than 30 out of the TOP50 companies continued their participation in the 1-year long EIC Growth Club. Tech Tour is the EIC ScalingUp project coordinator.

Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) promotes international enterprise in Flanders in a sustainable way as a key factor in the social and economic development of our region. FIT does so by supporting the international activities of Flemish companies and by attracting foreign investors to Flanders. We assist, support and stimulate companies in international business. Flanders Investment & Trade offers tailored advice and guidance.

Since 1981, we have built an expertise in product design applied across a broad portfolio of interface devices that are the “last inch” between you and your computer or your console game, digital music or home-entertainment system. With products sold in almost every country in the world, Logitech’s leadership in innovation now encompasses a wide variety of personal peripherals (both cordless and corded), with special emphasis on products for PC navigation, gaming, Internet communications, digital music and home-entertainment control. For each of our product categories, we study how our customers use their digital devices, and then our designers and engineers set their sights on how we can create a better experience with those devices – richer, more comfortable, more fun, more productive, more convenient, more delightful.

SH Gillamor Stephens is an executive search company specializing in the building of Boards and Exec Teams for start-ups and scale-ups, from university spin-out to public company. We focus on companies within the technology sector from digital to software & services to deep tech. In 2018, we were acquired by Sheffield Haworth and this has enabled us to expand our team into Shanghai, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Silverpeak provides independent advice on M&A and financing transactions to outstanding growth technology companies. Our team has 150 years combined experience and over 200 completed deals in technology investment banking with deep domain expertise in Enterprise Software & SaaS, FinTech, Enabling Technologies, Business Services, Internet & Digital Media, Healthtech and Mobility. Our network of relationships and reach is truly global, serving clients across Europe and beyond: the vast majority of our deals involve counterparties from the US, Europe and Asia. In addition to our multi-national team, Silverpeak is a member of Globalscope, the international M&A advisor network, with people on the ground in over 45 countries across every continent.

The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) ensures that startups playing a role in these fields receive the right support and funding to get off to a flying start and grow into scaleups, and that companies that aspire to go global can actually do so. Every year BOM works with dozens of companies to create this impact. BOM is an executive body of the Province of Brabant and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. As incubator and growth accelerator with over 35 years of experience, BOM Brabant Ventures helps ambitious Brabant companies to grow in a future-proof manner. Through our knowledge and risk capital, we focus on startups and scaleups in Brabant’s top industries: High Tech Systems & Materials, Agrofood, Biobased Economy, Life sciences & Medtech, Maintenance Supply chain.

Brainport Eindhoven is a world-class top technology region. High tech and design are combined with an advanced high-end manufacturing industry and entrepreneurship. Close collaboration and sharing knowledge are part of our DNA and characterise the open innovation culture which makes Brainport smart and strong. By quickly anticipating to rapid world-wide changes and continuously connecting to new people, we create new opportunities. For everyone. This attracts talent and enterprises from all over the world. Entrepreneurs, knowledge institutions and governments form a unique business climate in which we compete by collaboration, expand by adaptation, multiply by sharing, achieve by trying and predict the future by inventing it. In that way, partners in Brainport Eindhoven work together in finding solutions for societal challenges for health, mobility, energy, food and safety. As the high tech growth accelerator of the Dutch economy and part of the technological backbone of Europe, Brainport Eindhoven is a global frontrunner in innovation.

Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI) aims for sustainable solutions by exponentially decreasing the energy consumption of computing and communication, to enable the exponential growth of these technologies. The EHCI addresses this challenge by excelling in and through the unique synergy of two eminent research fields: the precision and speed of photonics and mind-blowing magic of quantum technology. By bringing together these technologies and working from an engineering science perspective the EHCI is uniquely able to transfer research into real-world sustainable applications. With a focus on societal needs the EHCI will drive the roadmap for these exponential technologies in computing, communication and sensing, as TU/e has already proved in integrated photonics.

The Eindhoven University of Technology is a university of technology located in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Its motto is Mens agitat molem (The mind brings matter into motion). The university was the second of its kind in the Netherlands, only Delft University of Technology existed previously. Until mid-1980 it was known as the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven (abbr. THE). In 2011 QS World University Rankings placed Eindhoven at 146th internationally, but 61st globally for Engineering & IT. Furthermore, in 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, TU/e was placed at the 52-75 bucket internationally in Engineering/Technology and Computer Science (ENG) category and at 34th place internationally in the field of Computer Science. In 2003 a European Commission report ranked TU/e at third place among all European research universities (after Cambridge and Oxford and at equal rank with TU Munich), thus making it the highest ranked Technical University in Europe

ING is a global bank with a strong European base. Our more than 57,000 employees serve around 38 million customers, corporate clients and financial institutions in over 40 countries. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services. Customer experience is what differentiates us and we’re continuously innovating to improve it. We also partner with others to bring disruptive ideas to market faster.

Innovation Industries is a Dutch deep tech venture capital firm. We invest in companies with ground-breaking technologies that can address the fundamental challenges of our time. Our portfolio companies are delivering real impact in their industries, ranging from climate-resilient vegetable seeds to safer and more efficient batteries. We are committed to catalysing positive change in the world, which is why we only invest in companies that support one or more environmental, social and/or corporate governance (ESG) goals. Overall impact is important to us, so we focus on both late-stage startups as well as early-stage founders who are making a difference. We are technology enthusiasts with decades of experience in (bio)physics, physiology, chemistry, engineering, and more. We take a hands-on approach to investing, where we act as not only a financial investor but also a business partner, actively supporting our portfolio in reaching their growth and impact goals. Active since 2000, we are the most experienced deep-tech VC firm in the Netherlands and have become a leading player in the Benelux region.

PhotonDelta is an ecosystem that researches, designs, develops, and manufactures solutions with integrated photonics technology. Connecting pioneers in the field with investors, and viable markets, PhotonDelta helps to take the industry forward with funding, investments and R&D roadmaps. PhotonDelta is located in the Netherlands, a country positioned at the very forefront of integrated photonics research, but connects and collaborates throughout Europe.