Here’s to 2020! A look back at what we achieved in 2019…
From everybody here at Hello Tomorrow, Happy New Year!
As we tear ourselves away from the last of the holiday festivities and officially round off the year, it’s the perfect time to sit back and reflect on the year’s achievements, give ourselves a shameless pat on the back and get excited for the next adventures.
From breaking records at the 5th edition of our Global Summit to launching the very first Deep Tech Week with 50 other leading organisations, it’s been a groundbreaking year here at Hello Tomorrow — a massive thanks to our community and network for all your support!
The 5th edition of our Global Summit was bigger and better than ever
The Global Summit welcomed over 3,500 attendees, 60 nationalities and fostered over 5,000 connections between our attendees.We saw explosive panels debating crucial world issues, and an unforgettable showdown as part of The Human Game documentary, between world-renowned genetic engineer George Church, biohacker Josiah Zayner, MIT Tech Review journalist Antonio Regalado and Co-Founder of WIRED Jane Metcalfe. RxAll, US/Nigerian startup, was announced as our Global Challenge Grand Winner, and awarded the Grand Prize by our Worldwide Partners BNP Paribas for their portable nano-scanner able to detect counterfeit prescription drugs. They went on to be featured in Le Monde, Fast Company, and Deutsche Welle after their win, we’ve loved seeing their success grow and grow!
Grab your pass to the 2020 edition here!
We broke all records for our Global Challenge
Thanks to the amazing Hello Tomorrow international community, in 2019 we saw a record number of applications to our Global Challenge, with 5,173 applications from 128 countries! A big thank you to all the brilliant startups who applied! Top cities represented included Berlin, Boston, Lausanne, London, Munich, Paris, SF/Bay Area, Singapore and Toronto. With our 750 deep tech pioneers already hand-picked by our team of experts, we’re gearing up to announce around 80 finalists ahead of our Global Summit…stay tuned!
We identified new innovation trends and dynamics in 3 new reports
In ‘The Dawn of the Deep Tech Ecosystem’ we demonstrated how deep tech is no longer reserved for just the scientific community, with global private investment growing by 20% in recent years to reach almost $18 billion. We undertook the very first Life Sciences ecosystem ranking as part of the Startup Genome Global Report to find that smaller ecosystems like Lausanne, San Diego and Tel Aviv come out on top next Silicon Valley. Finally, after interviewing accelerators and deep startups in our network, we shared results on what really makes a successful deep tech acceleration program. Check out all reports here.
We launched the very first global gathering for the deep tech community…Deep Tech Week!
As well as having the official support from the French government, 50 leading organisations in deep tech have become official members of the initiative to organise 30 hand-picked events in emblematic locations all over Paris, culminating in our annual Global Summit. Join us in March 9–13th 2020!
We took startup-corporate collaboration one step further
In early 2019, we saw the beginnings of collaborations between Hello Tomorrow startups with our corporate partners such as ArianeGroup and WeHealth by Servier! But it didn’t stop there. Looking to connect startups and major industry leaders, we got to work, and introduced: the Corporate Startup Challenge. Our Challenges foster corporate-startup collaborations to offer unique growth and business opportunities to some of the 12,00 deep tech startups in our network, and answer the specific industrial needs of large companies. 2019 saw the launch of the first four Challenges!Applications are still open to startups for the Orano Challenge and the Airbus DDMS Challenge. Watch this space for Air Liquide-AccelAir Challenge in 2020!
The Hello Tomorrow community came together, gathering over 6,000 people
From Summits to meetups and thematic events, 2019 saw some spectacular events! Highlights included The Hello Tomorrow Singapore Regional Summit which saw the winners of the Singapore Startup Challenge crowned. eko.ai: automating the fight against heart disease, Shiok Meats: using cellular agriculture to produce clean meat and seafood, and SpeQtral: transforming the world’s networks for the quantum revolution, announced as this year’s winners. Our Regional Finals at the Africarena event saw the inspiring Erada Technology Alliance, developing a saliva-based malaria test awarded the winning prize!
…And what’s next?
What’s in store for 2020 we hear you ask?
We’re launching the ‘Innovation Engine’
Startup-corporate collaborations are the thing of the moment, and we’re taking it that one step further through our new program, the Innovation Engine. Designed with the help of startups and large companies, we want to bring efficiency to collaborations. The Innovation Engine will allow corporations to share their specific needs and receive specialised proposals from a number of startups. We connect them when there is a match. Find out more here, and register to stay up to date on the right thematic session for you!
Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2020
We’re currently gearing up for the 6th edition of our Global Summit, and from enlightening keynotes on quantum cryptography to inspiring panel discussions on who has the power to save our planet, our program has us on the edge of our seats. Grab your passes here!
Deep Tech Week 2020
As well as that, we’re getting ready for a groundbreaking first edition of Deep Tech Week. With the program already released: jam packed with high quality events from (un)conferences, open days, 1-to-1 meetings, meetup sessions, afterworks and more, it’s ready for you to start planning your week!
Hello Tomorrow Turkey Challenge
The Turkey Challenge is getting geared up and ready to take to the stage, being held next week on 13th January! Find out more here.
Here’s to 2020! We can’t wait to see what the next 12 months have to offer.
