Hello Tomorrow - About us

ABOUT US

Hello Tomorrow is a non-profit organisation bringing together a community of actors aiming to unlock the power of deep technologies to solve the world's toughest challenges. We source deeptech projects and startups and facilitates collaboration between these entrepreneurs, industries and investors in order to propel innovation from the lab to the market. Hello Tomorrow organises several startup competitions and a series of events around the world, as well as mentoring and educating relevant stakeholders, becoming a key reference platform in deeptech innovation and entrepreneurship.

The history

Hello Tomorrow's journey

Discover what inspired Xavier Duportet and Arnaud de la Tour to create Hello Tomorrow in 2011, and see how the team has grown since the first edition of the Challenge and the Global Summit in 2014.

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2011

CREATION OF "SCIENCE, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP"

The ancestor of Hello Tomorrow, Science, Innovation & Entrepreneurship is created in Paris by Xavier Duportet, PhD & Arnaud de la Tour, PhD to help science entrepreneurs transform innovative technologies into world changing solutions

2014

First Edition of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge

Hello Tomorrow launches the Hello Tomorrow Challenge, a global startup competition dedicated to early-stage deeptech startups. The competition attracts 1,500 projects all over the world and G-therapeutics, a spin-off from EPFL wins the €100k Grand Prize to help develop their implant therapy for paralyzed people to walk again.

2015

A Growing Success

For its second edition, the Hello Tomorrow Challenge attracts 2,500 deep-tech startups, of which the 100 most promising are invited to attend the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit in June in Paris. After an intense finale, Biocarbon Engineering, from Oxford (UK), wins the Grand Prize in front of a packed crowd of 900 innovators, including the VP from Parrot who would eventually invest in the company a year later!

2016

Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

After two years, the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit moves to LE CENTQUATRE, Paris and the standard grows to a whole new level. The Top 500 projects from the Challenge selected from more than 120 countries, battle to win the Grand Prize. Michael Bloomberg opens the event with an outstanding panel about the impact of deep tech innovation in our future economies

2017

Global report on the impact of deep tech

After one year of research, more than 400 startups surveyed, and 30 interviews with key players in the ecosystem, Hello Tomorrow publishes an in-depth report on the role of deep-tech innovations for the future and how large corporations can collaborate with these ventures.

2017

The 2017 Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

Following the 2016 edition, the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit is back at LE CENTQUATRE, Paris and the standard grows to a whole new level. The Top 500 projects from the Challenge selected from more than 120 countries, battle to win the Grand Prize.

CREATION OF "SCIENCE, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP"

Team members

That rock

The Hello Tomorrow HQ team is based in Paris. We work hard everyday with unwavering enthusiasm to help the transfer of deep technologies for a better tomorrow.

Xavier

President & Co-founder

Nadine

Vice-President

Arnaud

Co-managing Director & Co-founder

Sarah

Co-managing Director

Jeannette

Event & Experience Director

PAC

Artistic Director

Edgar

Innovation & Startup Manager

KATIE

Communications Manager

Anouck

Deep-tech Writer and Program Manager

Alexandre

Innovation Analyst

Stephanie

International Hubs Manager

Thomas

Startup Community & Challenge Manager

Ambassadors

All around the world

Hello Tomorrow Ambassadors are talented experts from numerous fields and backgrounds helping on the ground deep tech startups, developing their local ecosystems and building a worldwide actionable network.

Timur

Ambassador in Turkey

Hamza

Ambassador in Pakistan

Fabien

Ambassador in Brazil

Vivek

Ambassador in India

Salma Moosa

Ambassador in India

Jean-Dominique

Japan Ambassador

Istvan

Ambassador in Hungary

Riverson

Ambassador in Ghana

Clement

Ambassador in Switzerland

Ernest

Ambassador in Singapore

Jean Paul

Ambassador in Malta

Yoel

Ambassador in Miami

CURATORS

Around you

Through our Curator program, we are building an international community of curious, inquisitive, knowledgeable curators, to find the best projects and early stage startups trying to change the world using science.