David Hansen is a Partner at Supernova Invest who spent 14 years in operating roles at major industrial companies like Lafarge and Suez before moving into venture capital, giving him an unusually deep operator-to-investor background for someone focused on energy and environmental deeptech. He was promoted to Partner in 2025 specifically to strengthen Supernova's energy transition capabilities and actively invests in industrial automation and decarbonization companies like Adionics for lithium extraction and ISYBOT for industrial finishing robotics.
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Supernova Invest is a European deeptech venture capital fund that takes companies from lab research through global industrial scale, managing both multi-stage investments and Orano's €50m corporate venture fund focused on industrial and decarbonization startups. The fund operates a ~€300m late-stage vehicle specifically designed to address Europe's scale-up gap in deeptech, with a portfolio spanning quantum computing, space infrastructure, and industrial robotics companies like Alice & Bob, Loft Orbital, and ANYbotics.
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