Request for Applications: Deep ConneXion Program for WaterTech Startups

Deep ConneXion is designed to tackle technological needs and challenges on specific themes. They recruit and support European DeepTech startups that have the potential to develop and implement cutting-edge solutions to address these critical issues effectively. The program aims to generate technological and industrial partnerships, providing the best opportunities for each startup at each stage of development.

For this first edition, the theme is WaterTech.

If you are developing a solution to water challenges, join them in addressing these issues and benefit from collaboration opportunities.

Content of the program

• Bootcoamp in Paris: January 15-16, Paris.
  • BA 2-day bootcamp at UM6P France to gather the selected startups for the launch of the program. The startups will participate in collective sessions with a focus on technological and industrial partnerships, industrial scale up and go-to market strategy for deeptech startups
• Online Sessions: January-May, online.
  • Online sessions including co-development workshops, WaterTech-focused sessions conducted by experts, sessions on team scale up and individual follow-up meetings.
• Bootcamp in Morocco: Early April, Morocco.
  • An immersive bootcamp in Morocco to discover and connect with local stakeholders and generate partnership opportunities within the UM6P’s technology and industrial ecosytem.

Challenges

• Their technological and industrial challenges in WaterTech:
  • Desalination
    • Energy challenge
    • Fouling challenge
    • Scaling challenge
    • Life time management
  • By-products & Waste Management
    • Extraction of added-value elements from brine Waste water management
  • Purification & Drinking Water
    • Purification
    • Water quality monitoring
    • Personalized treatment
    • Drinking water production
  • Optimization of Water Facilities & Infra
    • Prediction of failure
    • Leaks detection
    • Sensor for corrosion, scaling, biology etc.
    • Robotics for maintenance
  • Irrigation
    • New soil irrigation technologies
    • Irrigation optimization
  • Advanced Water Technologies
    • Predictive AI
    • Physical, physico-chemical, biocompatible treatments or filtration
    • Dedicated monitoring sensors
    • New industrial processes
    • New membranes
    • Specific materials & water/material interaction

Benefits

• The program offers:
  • WaterTech-focused expertise and shared experience
  • Industry and partnership-oriented training modules
  • Business opportunities and priviledged connections with their industrial ecosystem leading innovation and the African market
  • Access to industrial expertise and opportunities to co-develop and test solutions in experimental or real-world conditions through industrial pilot projects
  • Funding opportunities through their investment players

Eligibility Criteria

• Company (Startup or SME) with headquarters in Europe
• Solution must be at least at TRL 3 up to TRL 9, the opportunities provided will be adapted to each startup at each stage of development
• Technology of interest to the market, meeting the challenges identified
• Technology may have been developed for other use cases applicable to water
• Interest in exploring Moroccan and African markets

Selection Criteria

• The jury will evaluate the following items: global strategy, team, market demand and go-to market strategy, value proposition and solution, with a particular focus on the technology being developed.

For more information, visit The Next Seed.