Wind Capital and Deeptech Founders are joining forces to support Compute Pioneers!

In four months, turn your breakthrough science into an investor-ready company, backed by two experienced deeptech players.

📅 Applications are now open : the next cohort starts October 14th, 2026. A limited number of teams will be selected.

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🚀 Let’s power the next era of computing

To change paradigms and get back to Moore’s law, radical new ideas are needed. To move beyond the status quo, pioneers in photonics, physical AI, manufacturing coming from labs and research institutions should be supported in their journey to scale outside of academia!

The Compute Pioneers Program was created to help scientific founders structure ambitious companies faster, sharpen their roadmap, and become investor-ready earlier.

🤝 Two experienced deeptech players joining forces

Wind Capital

Wind Capital backs European deeptech founders turning lab science into scaled companies, from Pre-Seed to Series A, with tickets up to €5M. Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, Wind stays hands-on with every founder it backs.

With over 100 portfolio companies, Wind has already invested in multiple layers of physical AI and the future of compute : photonics sensors, quantum networks, industrial AI vision, AI-powered robotics, and AI-driven materials discovery.

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DeepTech Founders

DeepTech Founders is one of Europe's leading entrepreneurship training programs for scientific founders.

For the past 8 years, the team has helped researchers and engineers transform breakthrough technologies into scalable startups through IP strategy, founder coaching, business model definition and company structuring. Alumni have already raised more than €800M.

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🎯 What selected teams receive

A €20,000 venture-building program for two founders

💡 The €20,000 program fee is only payable in the event of a fundraising completed within 18 months after the program.

What's included

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Monthly Wind Advisory Sessions

• Deeptech VC expectations
• Fundraising readiness
• Product and regulatory roadmap reviews
• Strategic coaching

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Investor feedback from Wind’s GPs

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Olivier Mougenot

General Partner at Wind Capital, he started at Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, then moved into early-stage impact investing at Citizen Capital before leading NUMA, Europe's startup accelerator.

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Aurélie Nicolas

General Partner at Wind Capital, she spent close to a decade in tech investing, first in healthcare then in FinTech, before joining Wind.

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Thierry Vandewalle

Founding Partner at Wind Capital, he co-founded WCube with Xavier, acquired by Publicis, and spent four years as a Partner at ISAI before co-founding Wind in 2015.

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Xavier Gury

Founding Partner at Wind Capital, he co-founded WCube with Thierry at 19, built ventures across Asia with Tencent and DeNA, and led Via ID before co-founding Wind.

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Become Part of Wind Ecosystem

Throughout the program, get access to Wind’s community and events to meet investors, operators and fellow founders.

✅ Selection criteria

We are looking for:

• Future of Compute projects
• Strong IP-driven innovation: lab-originated projects are a plus
• Two committed individuals involved in the project
• Potential fundraising within around 12 months

🧭 Our objective

Help projects become VC-ready faster, by helping teams sharpen their roadmap, structure milestones, de-risk their strategy, and better understand investor expectations.

📅 Next cohort

Starts October 14th, 2026 A limited number of teams will be selected.

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