Jean-Eric Paquet has a €10bn war chest to turn the European Innovation Council into “the biggest deeptech equity fund in Europe”, he tells John Thornhill.
Here is the link: https://sifted.eu/articles/jean-eric-paquet-europe-eic/
Launching Europe’s “unicorn factory” — Sifted
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