Expression of Interest to join the D2XCEL stakeholder network

D2XCEL is a collaborative pan-European scaling programme, bringing together a top-tier industry network of 300+ investors, public and private lead customers, and innovation hubs to support 100 deep tech and digital ventures. It develops and deploys state-of-the-art tools and methodologies and shares best practices between leading ecosystem actors.

The programme supports 100 selected ventures (startups) distributed over 10 sectors and connects them with investors, lead customers and other growth opportunities to strenghten Europe's leadership and sustainable growth in those key sectors. The programme provides holistic mentoring on both sector-specific challenges and on specific challenges of each venture. The participating ventures will thus be enabled to excel and scale effectively by strengthening their:

Access to pan-European growth funding, both dilutive and non-dilutive, public and private
Access to pan-European markets and internationalisation (incl. legal/tax issues, setting up local subsidiaries, corporate development, etc.)
Access to lead customers and partners, both public and private, across borders founder team and board and attract the best talent (pan-EU and global)
IPR portfolio building competencies

The Programme is seeking active involvement of key ecosystem stakeholders that are willing to bring in their expertise, insights and networks to efficiently support the selected ventures to excel and scale effectively.

Email*

Intro*

First Name*

Last Name*

Job title/Position in the company*

Personal LinkedIn profile

Organisation name*

HQ Country*

Website URL*

Organisation LinkedIn Page

Organisation type*

Main activity of the overall (HQ) organisation *

Main responsibility within organization*

Please select all that apply

Investing in ventures (venture capital)

Scouting for relevant technologies / services (venture client)

Supporting ventures (innovation hub services)

Other

Your Focus Market Opportunity

The D2XCEL stakeholders are active and knowledgeable in the market opportunities (MOs) selected below and wish to support the Programme primarily in those sectors. You will be regularly informed about (online or in-person) events in all sectors and are welcome to join additionally. However, for the market opportunities selected below, you will contribute actively as indicated in the next section of this application.
Detailed description of the MOs is available here.

Market opportunity group (primary)*

Mandatory participation in the activities of the group below

Market opportunity group (secondary)

Voluntarily participation in the activities of the group below

Your Interests

Please select the benefits you see for your organization by expressing your interest to join the D2XCEL Programme in one of the market opportunities:

Please select all that apply:*

Unique insights in innovation and industry trends in the selected sectors

Early access to innovations that our organisation might want to deploy

Access to a curated pipeline of high-potential ventures to invest in

Networking with other key stakeholders in the selected sectors

Developing our competences to collaborate with ventures

Learning about best practices and tools to scale-up ventures

Increasing the visibility of our organisation as innovator

Other

Your Contributions

Please select in what way you are willing to contribute to the Programme in the ways selected below.
I understand that, unless indicated otherwise:

only non-confidential, non-sensitive information should be shared
our contributions will be made in the respective Cohort periods as indicated in the previous section of this application
our contributions will be through online participation (no travel required)
collaborative mentoring sessions involve ventures, mentors, and other stakeholders
actual timeslots for our contributions will be planned by the Programme and might not always be possible for us to attend, but we will do our best to participate

Obligatory contributions (minimum of 1 hour)*

Participate in a kick-off call for each of the selected sectors (1 hour)

Marketing/Dissemination contributions (flexible, minimum of 2 hours in total)

Please select the activities and sessions you are interested to participate in.

Nominate ventures that could be interested in being selected for the Programme

Suggest other stakeholders to participate in the Programme

Promote the Programme and/or your participation on social media

Mention the Programme and our role as Supporting Stakeholder on our website and/or other communication channels

Provide input and/or quotes for articles (produced by the Programme) covering the Programme and its ventures

Stakeholder Consent

By submitting this application, I agree to the following principles for Stakeholders in the Programme:

I understand and agree that my organisation will be mentioned as Supporting Stakeholder of the Programme in public communications of the Programme (including website and social media);
I permit the Programme, represented by the D2XCEL Consortium, to store the names and contact details of the individuals of my organisation that plan to participate in the Programme;
I understand that I will not be requested to share any confidential or sensitive information in the context of my contribution to the Programme;
I further understand and agree that certain events of the Programme will be held under Chatham House Rules, i.e. participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the information provider(s) may be revealed. However, I understand and consent that the names and affiliations of the participants in those events may be made public.