It is not yet too late for Europe to secure digital sovereignty – the two investment bankers are convinced of this.
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Nicolas von Bülow and Stéphane Valorge founded Clipperton, a European investment bank for technology and growth companies over 20 years ago. In this article you analyze Europe's deep tech challenges.

We experience it every day – in our work, our institutions and our social life: technology shapes our decisions, our relationships and the structures that organize our world.

The ability of our institutions to protect themselves, distinguish truth from lie and enable people increasingly depend on whether we can master central technologies themselves.

So far, Europe has largely been on the edge of the field

Nicolas von Bülow and Stéphane Valorge

Co-Founding Managing Partners bei Clipperton

But what technologies are it about? The public discussion and political decision -makers often focus on data centers, research laboratories, production facilities or large software providers.

But the actual race takes place elsewhere – namely control over the technological infrastructure, which is based on everything.

USA and Asia are ahead

And Europe? So far, mostly on the edge of the field.

This technological infrastructure can be roughly divided into three central levels:

Source: https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/perspektive/china-usa-liefern-europa-schaut-zu-was-wir-bei-deep-tech-aendern-muessen/

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