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Deep Tech Showcase 2024

Posted on 19 June 2024

 Frontier Deep Tech and Silicon Roundabout Ventures logo
in collaboration with Mishcon de Reya

Deep Tech Showcase 2024, Mishcon de Reya's immersive in-person event showcasing some of the UK's most innovative technology advancements, took place in Africa House on Thursday 13 June.  The showcase was held in collaboration with Frontier Deep Tech and Silicon Roundabout Ventures.

Click on the film above to view all the action from Deep Tech Showcase 2024.

We were joined by:

  • Seabird, a pioneering marine technology startup that is charting new waters with their cutting-edge ocean exploration solutions.
  • Clare&Me, hailing from Berlin, this startup is on a mission to digitize mental health, offering groundbreaking tools and resources.
  • Greenjets, pioneers in the aviation industry, Greenjets is revolutionizing travel with their bespoke electric jet engines.
  • Hirsch & Mann, a London-based design and technology agency known for creating bold digital and physical experiences for premium brands across the globe.
  • Urban Legend, a healthier twist on traditional doughnuts.
  • Pi Energy, affordable solar energy with the flexibility to provide power just about anywhere.
  • Toast, award-winning social enterprise brewery, rescuing leftover loaves and turn them into liquid gold.
  • Lumirithmic, portable high-end facial scanning and animation technology.

Ashley Williams
Partner, Mishcon de Reya

We are a law firm that’s focussed on supporting the innovation economy.  We’ve got Cris from Frontier Deep Tech and Francesco from Silicon Roundabout Ventures and we are super excited to be partnering with them.  We are going to hear a little bit from the community and what they are doing around deep tech and then we’re going to hand over to Jeff who is going to do a walk around the amazing start-ups we have today in the room.

Dr Cristina Esteban Pardo
Founder, Frontier Deep Tech

We are the largest community of deep tech here in the UK and Europe but yes, just join us, join the community we do have these type of activities every month, it’s an open community and yeah it would be great to see you more often around.

Francesco Perticarari
General Partner, Silicon Roundabout Ventures

And it’s all been about getting engineers like myself and scientists get together and the founders in our ranks to showcase their technologies and what I realised is that so many of the most advanced technologies, they also happen to be the ones that can have the biggest impact in the world were not getting funded.  Most of the VC was VCs were giving us better CRMs and so two years ago I had this crazy thing of launching a fund  the end, at the end of the year with the first closing now we’re actively deploying we have eight portfolio companies, one is in the room.

Geoff Dragon
Partner, Mishcon de Reya

And we’re just going to follow it around kind of Jules Holland-esque, kind of like backstage at Robot Wars style so er, that’s what we are going to go for.

Rodrigo Marquez-Pacanins
Board Member, PI Energy

We actually have a revolutionary solar tech technology that actually allows us to bring production of these things back to Europe and the US.

Celina Messner
Co-Founder, Clare&Me

We feel like IA therapy not as a replacement of human therapist but rather like an expansion of the offering.

Richard Draisey
CEO, Seabird

She had a vision for beautiful electric boats when she’d seen the Formula E and seen what was possible with cars.

Nat Kennedy
Breadwinner, Toast

So if you think about your Tesco’s meal deal you never get the ends of the bread do you?

Geoff Dragon
Partner, Mishcon de Reya

No never.

Nat Kennedy
Breadwinner, Toast

Never, where do they go?  Straight into our lovely little beer.

Darren James
Head of Airframe Integration, Greenjets

As a USP is that we do very efficient propulsors that are very quiet, very safe and help in the adoption of drone technology.

Gaurav Chawla
CEO, Lumirithmic

Um we are a company focused on very high quality facial scanning and deep learning um you know, movie making, everyone loves Avengers uh but how do we create those faces?  What we are doing is we are taking all that technology down to a single phone.

Daniel HirschMann
Founder, CEO, Hirsch & Mann

It’s an interesting one because we are a creative agency that’s really playing with its space between design and technology we find that uh, first of all trying to explain to people what the ideas that we come up with, how they are going to manifest in reality. I t’s quite difficult to do so one of the difficulties that we’ve resolved is how to unboard somebody to a creative idea.

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