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✈️ The Hotels Network has been acquired by Lighthouse! Founded in 2015, The Hotels Network serves over 20,000 hotels across more than 100 countries, including celebrated brands such as Minor Hotels, One&Only Resorts, H World International and Preferred Hotels & Resorts. Lighthouse and The Hotels Network will combine their platforms to maximise direct channel potential for hotels. By fusing The Hotels Network’s AI capabilities and Lighthouse’s commercial intelligence platforms, hotels can transform personalised guest booking experiences. Please join us in congratulating Juanjo Rodriguez and the THN team on this next step!

🔬Heading to BioVaria this month? Don’t miss the chance to connect with Elaia Partner, Florian Denis, in Munich from April 28-29. 🇩🇪 Are you participating in the startup pitch sessions? Find Florian as part of the jury identifying the next wave of German and European biotech talent.

☀️ Our annual Founder Summit is back! Over two and a half days in the South of France last month, we brought together nearly 100 entrepreneurs from the #ElaiaFamily to focus on the opportunities and challenges of generation GenAI and shaping full stack founder support that delivers real impact. A big thank you to our speakers who lent their time, wisdom and honest insights throughout our breakout sessions and fireside chats: Thomas Mesnard, Sophie Marchessou, Arnaud Guérin, Jimmy ANIDJAR, Florian Bressand, David Durrleman, Deepak Prakash, Anne-Claire BASCHET, Grégoire Mialon and Franck Tetzlaff. Want to catch a glimpse of this year’s edition? Scroll through for a few photos from this year’s unforgettable Summit and stay tuned for our video coming soon ➡️

⚙️ Ever wondered how Elaia supported the beginnings of tech transfer in the French ecosystem? Elaia Managing Partner, Pauline Roux, joins Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches on the Finscale podcast to chat all things startups, European capital and science-intensive tech. Want to listen to the full episode? Catch it on YouTube 👉 https://lnkd.in/emwvmGYT

SeqOne acquires Life & Soft to bolster SeqOne's multi-omics capabilities! This new collaboration significantly expands SeqOne's capabilities in: • Building advanced infectious disease, microbiome & metagenomics NGS pipelines • Enhanced on-premise lab automation tools • Expert-led custom bioinformatics services Read the full release here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eXxHRcxw

SandboxAQ has announced the close of its Series E round, raising over $450 million in new funding and welcoming a powerhouse group of strategic investors, including Ray Dalio, Horizon Kinetics LLC, BNP Paribas, Google, and NVIDIA. Since its 2022 spin-out from Alphabet, SandboxAQ has raised a total of $950 million to advance the scale and performance of their science-driven Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), tackling complex challenges across sectors such as life sciences, advanced materials, financial services and more. Check out the news here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dZ2ShXxd Congrats to the entire SandboxAQ team!

💉 Get to know HEPHAISTOS-Pharma’s CEO, Frederic CAROFF! HEPHAISTOS-Pharma targets the innate immune system to address the key issues of tumor resistance today, especially patients who are facing hard-to-treat and solid tumors such as sarcoma or rectal cancer. Without any current therapeutic solutions on the market today, Hephaistos offers a solution that can be used both in mono- and combined therapies. Learn more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e73dcCsk

🎉Meet Elaia's newest Deep Tech Seed Analyst: Elfwa Ljungdahl! Born in Stockholm and a graduate of Chalmers University of Technology, Elfwa brings a mix of international experience to the Elaia team, having spent time in cities including Paris, Berlin, and Brussels. Most recently, she was an analyst at Neudi & C:o AB, a Stockholm based family office, focusing on portfolio support, investment opportunities, and deal analysis. 🌎 Elfwa is particularly committed to transformative technologies - especially in the fields of life sciences, climate tech, and AI so don’t hesitate to reach out to her if you’re building in these spaces!

📓 Ever wondered how Elaia Managing Partner, Anne-Sophie CARRESE, got her start in deep tech? In conversation with Gilles Fontaine and Guillaume Payan on the latest episode of the Challenges #DeepTechs podcast, Anne-Sophie shares how her roots in aeronautical engineering laid the groundwork for building out the deep tech practice at Elaia nearly ten years ago. Tune in here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eWeaaGg6

🇺🇸 Will you be in the Bay Area for NVIDIA #GTC2025 next week? Don't miss the opportunity to connect with the Elaia team on the ground, including Alexis Frentz, Investment Director, and Clément Vanden Driessche, Partner, at one of the biggest events in AI. Want to see Elaia onstage? Catch Clément in the VC reverse pitch session on March 19th from 2-3pm!