The European Commission launched a new initiative this week to help 100 deep tech startups become unicorns, as the bloc looks to accelerate growth in green and digital technologies. We will identify one hundred of Europes future tech champions, engage them, and provide them with support on their scaleup journey, said EU tech chief Margrethe Vestager, who announced the EIC Scale Up 100 initiative at a deep tech conference in Stockholm yesterday. These future tech champions will be picked from a pool of startups already enrolled in national and EU-led innovation programmes across the Continent. Only the best performing startups…

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