Deep Tech Scale-up Objective — Workshop 3

The third workshop of Systematic Paris-Region's Deep Tech Scale-up Club, 09:00 to 14:00 in the 8th arrondissement — the exact address is sent on registration. Two sequences. Marc Sudreau, Managing Partner at Chausson Partners, on consolidating an emerging sector: a 2026 tech and deeptech market read, the squeeze on late-stage rounds and the pressure on profitability, the pivot from pure R&D to industrialisation, acquisition by incumbents, startup-plus-startup mergers, and private equity as a consolidator of fragmented sectors. Then Nicolas Blaise of Afnor Normalisation on standards as the lever deeptech leaders use to lock in global markets — why a breakthrough technology without a standard is invisible, and how European coalitions get built. Why go: standards and consolidation are where deeptech scale-ups actually win or lose, and almost nobody in Paris runs a session on either. Best for founders past first revenue and the people advising them.