Case Studies

Europe has a well-known startup scaling problem. Capital is fragmented across jurisdictions, investors struggle to build conviction (and pipelines) outside their home markets, and cultural and language barriers make it difficult for companies and funds to operate pan-continentally. The result is a continent that produces world-class innovation but fails to scale it at the pace of the United States or China. EABID, the European Association of Business Innovation Districts, was

Sandyford Business District, located just south of Dublin city center, is one of Ireland's most strategically significant business and innovation districts. It is home to 27,000 employees across 1,000 companies, including a dense cluster of major U.S. digital titans like Microsoft, Mastercard, Salesforce, Google, and Meta, alongside a growing base of Irish and European firms. Despite Sandyford's impressive corporate footprint, R&D and startup activity in the district has trad

Neo-Eco is a French circular economy engineering firm and venture builder with 17 years of experience transforming waste flows into re-usable materials and products. One of its main areas of expertise is turning construction and demolition waste (which accounts for about 30% of all waste generated in the EU by weight) into recycled, secondary materials that can be used in construction and agronomy, Workstream: Circular Materials Engineering Neo-Eco's engineers have brought ci

Outside the Box Ventures is an early-stage VC firm anchored by Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn) and built on a distinctive thesis: that technical founders fail not because they lack great technology, but because they lack the ability to make the world care about it. Raising capital is storytelling. Winning customers is storytelling. Hiring great talent is storytelling. Most founders are exceptional builders. Far fewer know how to communicate what they've built in a way t

Scalable Cities is a European Commission-backed network of over 130 cities working together to make urban life cleaner, smarter, and more...

NeoCem is a French low carbon cement company that holds a global patent related to the flash calcination of clay, which is a core...

Walela is a US-based startup that is revolutionizing the tools and diagnostics that doctors can use to determine when emergency C-sections are required during childbirth. Until now, about 80% of the emergency C-sections that are carried out are done so based on a doctor's best judgment (read: "by guessing"). Tools are currently used to determine fetal distress by taking periodic samples of the baby's pH levels and heart rate. However, the latest research is showing that thes