At this point, we all know IMEC and the central role it plays in the field of technological advancement as one of the world's largest and most prominent R&D players in nano-electronics and digital innovation.

But did you know IMEC also offers multiple ways to spin off, finance, scale and support the international development of deep tech startups and scale-ups - both from within and outside the organisation?

At our recent Ignition Forum, we spoke with Olivier Rousseaux, who leads the deep tech venturing and spin-off activity for IMEC as its Director of Venture Development.

We wanted to understand the difference between his team's focus in relation to other initiatives like imec.istart and imec.xpand, what the term 'deep tech' actually means in the world of IMEC, and how he envisions the organisation to work with the EIC Scaling Club and the selected scale-up members in the future.

Olivier did not disappoint in this short but sweet interview, so check it out!

About the EIC Scaling Club

The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.

The top 120+ European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.

The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.

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