🇫🇷 France knows how to create deep tech companies. Turning them into global leaders is another sport entirely. So what would it take? Two rentrées this week, two halves of the answer. At @LaFrenchTech's rentrée, one panel put the whole chain on stage: @Antimatter on energy & compute, @MistralAI on AI models, @Wandercraft on robotics, and Alice & Bob on quantum, obviously 😏 At France Deeptech's rentrée at Bercy, the new phase of the Plan Deeptech was laid out: lab to factory, then to scale. With real money behind it 💶 €30B confirmed via France 2030, a stronger Tibi initiative channeling institutional money into tech, and the €5B Scale-up Europe Fund for the largest rounds. Our read on where the game is won or lost: 💸 Growth capital. Companies grow where they raise. 🤝 First customers. One real order beats any award. 🇪🇺 One market. Integration is speed. As for us, "lab to factory" isn't just a slogan we heard this week. At Alice & Bob, it's about to get very concrete 🐈 More soon 👀