Clément Vanden Driessche is a venture capital partner at Elaia who spent five years as an executive at Siemens-backed global VC firm Next47, giving him an operator-focused approach to deep tech investing that emphasizes go-to-market strategy for technical founders. He has written a multi-part playbook specifically on mastering go-to-market for early-stage deep tech startups and focuses on backing founders across Europe and Israel in areas spanning environmental tech, robotics, new space, and cybersecurity.
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Elaia is a venture capital fund that has built its strategy around a Delta triangle of Deep Tech, Early Stage, and Portfolio Management, backed by quantitative back-testing to create a refined portfolio construction model that reduces volatility rather than relying on single mega-winner outcomes. The firm positions itself as unusually math-native for a generalist tech VC, with co-founder Xavier Lazarus betting on an era where mathematicians rule the digital deep tech world, leveraging France's concentration of elite math talent as a structural advantage for deep-tech entrepreneurship.
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