We back exceptional scientists at the earliest stage, scouting continuously across 100+ universities to identify researchers advancing the frontier of their field who also show a unique combination of qualities – including high intellectual ambition and early market curiosity.

We then help them develop an entrepreneurial mindset during their PhD and postdoc. We’ve found that 34% of researchers start companies with this support – compared to 1.7% without.

Not every scientist should be a founder, but we believe that the most consequential companies of the next decades will be built by researchers. A new generation of founders is emerging – Venture Scientists – starting companies from deep scientific authorship.

They are uniquely positioned to make calls on how frontier technologies are built and deployed, at a moment when their implications could outlast any single company. Conception X exists for them.

Europe's research universities are the most powerful scientific base in the world, with billions committed in R&D, world-class laboratory infrastructure and exceptional technical talent. Our distributed incubation platform builds on this to surface founders at unprecedented scale.

In our model, we don’t ask entrepreneurial researchers to drop out. They build inside the university, from their research, embedded in the labs where it originates. It’s the Venture Scientist’s unfair advantage.