About this episode

The episode discusses how startups, in collaboration with investors and corporate partners, can drive the reindustrialisation of Europe through cleaner and more innovative practices.

Subscribe to the newsletter: New Wave | Hugo Rauch | Substack **** Brought to you by: EDF : partnering with New Wave on this mini-series to explore how cleaner energy, industrial innovation, and ambitious startups can rebuild Europe’s productive edge. Discover EDF’s work with industrial and climate innovators here . **** 👉 Europe cannot rebuild the past Reindustrialisation does not mean bringing back the factories Europe lost in the 1980s and 1990s. With high energy prices, material dependencies, labour shortages, and fragile supply chains, Europe needs a fundamentally different model: cleaner, more automated, less resource-intensive, and more flexible. 👉 Startups don’t need more pilots. They need venture customers A startup cannot rebuild European industry alone. Neither can a corporate or a VC. The real unlock could be a three-way alliance: startups create the technology, investors finance the risk, and venture customers provide credibility, industrial access, and a path to scale. But are corporates prepared to make bold commitments, or will startups remain trapped in endless €10K pilot projects? 👉 Europe has a speed problem European founders are asked for three years of…

People in this episode

Host: Hugo Rauch

Topics covered

• reindustrialisation
• startups
• clean energy
• industrial innovation
• venture capital
• European industry

Keywords

• reindustrialisation
• startups
• clean energy
• venture customers
• European industry
• industrial innovation
• capital
• supply chains

Sponsors

EDF

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HTGF, Tetmet

Places: Europe, America

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