Hello Tomorrow - About us

ABOUT US

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.

The history

Hello Tomorrow's journey

Learn more about how Hello Tomorrow has grown, year upon year, to reach it's fourth edition.

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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.

CREATION OF "SCIENCE, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP"

Team members

That rock

Xavier

President & Co-founder

Nadine

Vice-President

Arnaud

Vice-President and Co-founder

Guillaume

Managing Director

Sarah

Head of International Development

Jeannette

Global Summit Director

Anne

Head of Communication

Baptiste

Challenge Director

Ségolène

Operations Manager

Pierre-Alexandre

Graphic Designer

Elliott

International Project Manager

Edgar

Startup 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.

Vivek

Bangalore Ambassador

Sanwal

Islamabad Ambassador

Lisset

Lima Ambassador

Mathieu

Los Angeles Ambassador

Timur

Istanbul Ambassador

Alina

Seoul Ambassador

Fabien

Sao Paulo Ambassador

Carlo

Seoul Ambassador

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.