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Thomas Klem Andersen is Executive Director of the DeepTech Alliance, an association of European entrepreneurship hubs connecting founders with international investors to develop science-based innovation.
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Henry Markarian is the founder and CEO of Integrated Dynamics, a company using advanced fermentation technology to transform organic substrates into sustainable value chemicals.
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Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.
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Brian Wilcove is the managing director of America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a sovereign-aligned venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies to strengthen U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness.
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Paul Veugen is co-founder and partner at NP-Hard Ventures, an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies solving the hardest problems across robotics, defense tech, and foundational infrastructure.
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