Europe’s deep-tech ambitions now hinge less on scientific discovery and more on whether its financial system can support scale. As frontier manufacturing, bio, energy and AI companies move from breakthrough to deployment, the question is no longer whether Europe can innovate, but whether it can finance industrial growth at speed, at home. This session examines the capital structures, public-private mechanisms and sovereign strategies required to turn European deep tech into globally competitive industrial leaders.

• What would it take to build a financial system capable of scaling Europe’s deep tech champions?

• Where do growth capital, pension funds, blended finance and corporate venture work well today, and where do they break down?

• What must Europe change now to ensure its most advanced companies can scale at home rather than being pushed to the US?