About us
We are a team of seasoned investors and passionate deep tech experts, with both entrepreneurial and scientific backgrounds.
Deepbright is building on Hello Tomorrow’s leading position in deep tech consolidated since 2011. We invest in early-stage startups building new solutions, based on significant progress in science or engineering to make history.
Our mission
We partner with entrepreneurs to solve sustainability, geopolitical & global health challenges to meet human vital needs.
Our unfair competitive advantages
Deal flow of 4,500+ startups/year from best universities and deep tech hubs worldwide.
Industrialized and proven selection process, allowing us to efficiently identify the best startups before they become part of the hype.
In-house expertise and wide network of external experts to assess startup’s market potential and technology risk early on, to make well educated bets.
Large network of investors and corporations to support portfolio companies scale-up.
Our values
We believe in the importance of entrepreneurship values
Vision
Excellence
Ambition
Efficiency
Vision
Excellence
Ambition
Efficiency
and strong business ethics
Respect
Empathy
Humility
Honesty
Trust
Respect
Empathy
Humility
Honesty
Trust
We also care about positive impact and select all our partners & portfolio companies accordingly.
Our focus
Deep tech offers opportunities at the convergence of world’s biggest challenges and technological breakthroughs.
We target (pre)seed startups solving the world’s biggest problems, with low market risk, and unique IP bringing a strong competitive advantage and defensive moat.
We work in close collaboration with the Hello Tomorrow team to support our portfolio companies, leveraging our exceptional network of investors and corporates.
Sectors
The team
Arnaud de la Tour
Managing Partner
After an MSc. in engineering and a Ph.D. in the Photovoltaic Industry, Arnaud worked for 3 years as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group before co-founding and managing Hello Tomorrow. For the past 13 years, Arnaud has been dedicated to supporting startups, investors, and corporates to solve major society challenges using deep tech. Arnaud also co-developed Hello Tomorrow’s consulting offer around radical innovation.
Riadh Shaïek
Managing Partner
Seasoned Venture Capital professional with a proven ability to source, select and grow high potential companies. Riadh is passionate about new technologies and has a strong understanding of related market opportunities, dynamics and challenges. He holds a master’s degree of Innovation management in Agriculture, Food and Biotech industries from AgroParisTech and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Our impact
Our dealflow matches U.N. SDGs by design.
98%
of deep tech startups in our dealflow are addressing at least one Sustainable Development Goal.
We invest in purpose-driven companies that can achieve compelling financial returns while making a positive impact in society.
We are promoting environmental or social characteristics within the meaning of article 8 of EU SFDR – Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation.
Our mission is to select and partner with bright entrepreneurs, and then support the growth of the business while measuring, tracking and reporting social and environmental impact.
The increasing maturity of deep tech opens the door to a wide range of opportunities
bringing positive impact on a global scale.
Founder of a deep tech startup? Let’s discuss!
