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.
