CDL-Paris 2024/25 Graduate Companies
Over the past year, more than 630 companies joined Creative Destruction Lab around the world, tapping into the expertise of 1,000+ mentors. These ventures challenged the limits of deeptech, advancing tech innovations for the better. Now, let’s celebrate those who finished the journey: over 230 deep-tech ventures graduated from CDL’s 2024/25 cycle, an important milestone on their path to success.
Among those 230 graduated ventures, 38 came through CDL-Paris. Focused on artificial intelligence, climate solutions, next-gen computing, and space technologies, these startups embody the ambition to turn cutting-edge research into scalable innovation. Let’s meet the graduates!
CDL-Paris Artificial Intelligence (2024/25)
The Artificial Intelligence stream at CDL-Paris is made for startup founders who are seeking industrial applications to the new capabilities to structure information, predict patterns, and solve problems, provided by the latest developments in Machine Learning and AI technologies.
Example innovation areas: AI Agents, Multimodal AI, Generative AI, AI Enabling Technologies.
Here are the 5 graduate ventures from the 2024/25 CDL AI stream:
Cogitat
Cogitat is a deep learning technology delivering precise brain activity decoding, from attention to movement control, across any EEG device.
Founders: Allan Ponniah, Dimitrios Adamos, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Nikos Laskaris, Irene Kotsia, Yannis Panagakis.
Delos Intelligence
Delos Intelligence is an AI-boosted workspace aimed to simplify your daily tasks with a complete and secure office suite.
Founders: Pierre de la Grand'rive, Thibaut de la Grand'rive
Focoos AI
Focoos AI provides an all-in-one platform for machine learning engineers to build and deploy visual AI, enabling faster iteration and innovation.
Founders: Antonia Tavera, Fabio Cermelli
Synthera AI
Synthera leverages AI to simulate financial markets, revealing hidden risks, structures, and correlations that traditional models miss.
Founders: Mariana Barona, Lukas Schreiner
Syntonym
Syntonym provides real-time, lossless anonymization for machine vision, removing personal identifiers while preserving data utility to ensure privacy.
Founder: Batuhan Özcan
CDL-Paris Climate (2024/25)
CDL-Paris Climate is aimed at founders of deeptech startups developing scalable solutions for environmental protection. The stream focuses on assessing natural resources and optimizing the use of technologies to transform them in clean and sustainable ways.
Example innovation areas: Water, Land, Energy, Biodiversity, Atmosphere, Manufacturing, Built Environment, Computing, Resource Distribution.
Here are the 8 graduate ventures from the Climate stream this year:
Altrove
Altrove combines AI-driven material prediction with automated lab validation to rapidly develop alternative materials for resource-critical industries like aerospace, EVs, and wind power, delivering faster, scalable breakthroughs where competitors stop at simulation.
Founders: Joonatan Laulainen, Thibaud Martin
BLUEFINS
BLUEFINS develops whale-inspired hydrofoils that retrofit onto existing cargo ships, cutting fuel use by over 20% and delivering a fast 2–5 year ROI, making it the only wave-assisted propulsion system tailored to the needs of global shipping.
Founder: Olivier Giusti
Carbon Cell
Carbon Cell produces the only fully compostable biochar-based foam, offering a carbon-negative, high-performance alternative to plastics for packaging, construction, automotive, and marine industries.
Founders: Elizabeth Lee, Ori Blich, Eden Harrison, Juan Ignacio Rion
Entroview
Entroview delivers hardware-agnostic battery management software that extends battery life by up to 10 years while cutting testing time from 10 days to under 10 hours, helping gigafactories and automakers optimize production, performance, and costs.
Founders: Gaëtan Depaëpe, Sohaïb El Outmani
HyLight
HyLight’s hydrogen-powered hybrid drone-airship provides zero-emission, long-range inspections of energy infrastructure with up to 10 hours of flight and 350 km coverage, delivering efficient and high-resolution data collection.
Founders: Martin Bocken, Josef Rokůsek, Thomas Laporte
Qarbotech
Qarbotech is a pioneering nanotech and agritech company specializing in manufacturing photosynthesis enhancers and providing innovative solutions to address food security challenges and climate change.
Founders: Chor Chee Hoe, Suraya Abdul Rashid, Amirul Merican,
Yama
Yama pioneers ultra-scalable Direct Air Capture using a novel hybrid electrochemical process, bypassing the current limits in electricity, land, water, and manufacturing.
Founders: Aurélie Gonzalez, Valentin Fougerit, Harry Macpherson
alteva
alteva is developing technology to minimise the use of fossil fuels and advance our society towards a low-carbon economy.
Founders: Ida Milow, Aiko Bernehed
CDL Next Gen Computing (2024/25)
CDL-Paris Next Generation Computing is aimed at founders centered on the exploration of the new computing concepts and algorithms required to unlock the full potential of computing power and reduce energy consumption.
Example innovation areas: High-Performance Computing, Quantum Computing, Photonics, Neuromorphic Computing, Edge Computing, Quantum Algorithms, Neural Network Algorithms, Cybersecurity Algorithms
Here are the 4 graduate ventures from the Next Gen Computing stream this year:
LumiSync
LumiSync revolutionizes data processing by developing Photonic Integrated Circuits powered by the world’s first 100% photonic oscillator.
Founders: Giuseppe Modica, Rémy Braive, and Alexis Jonville
Neurobus
Neurobus harnesses neuromorphic computing to deliver bio-inspired AI systems that combine adaptability and efficiency for breakthrough performance in mission-critical applications.
Founders: Florian Corgnou and Nicolas Bourdis
QuantaMap
QuantaMap enables the quantum revolution by providing breakthrough SQUID-on-tip microscopy tools for chip metrology and defect inspection, helping identify failures and improve production processes across quantum hardware and beyond.
Founders: Johannes Jobst, Kaveh Lahabi, and Milan P Allan
Quantistry
Quantistry accelerates materials and chemical R&D by offering a cloud-native, browser-based simulation platform that lets users explore, predict, and design advanced materials with no coding and minimal expertise.
Founders: Arturo Robertazzi, Marcel Quennet, and Stefan Kupferberg
CDL-Paris Carbon Removal (2024/25)
The CDL Carbon Removal program was launched in partnership with XPRIZE along with the University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and HEC Paris to help ventures from the top 100 finalists accelerate their commercial potential.
Example innovation areas: Carbon Sequestration, Biochar, Carbon Mineralization, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), Afforestation and Reforestation, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)...
Here are the 5 graduate ventures from the Carbon Removal stream this year:
Captura
Captura provides a simple, streamlined process for large-scale Direct Ocean Capture of carbon.
Founders: Chengxiang Xiang and Harry Atwater
Gigablue
Gigablue deploys a science-driven Marine Carbon Fixation and Sinking (MCFS) technology to help corporations and governments remove gigatons of CO₂ by exporting carbon to the deep ocean, offering a scalable, nature-inspired solution to achieve net-zero goals.
Founders: Ori Shaashua Sapir Markus-Alford, Dotan Levy, and Guy Shafran
Skyrenu
Skyrenu accelerates the fight against climate change by deploying modular, energy-efficient, direct air capture systems that safely and sustainably remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and store it on-site, making carbon removal scalable and more accessible.
Founders: Martin Brouillette and Gabriel Vézina
UNDO
UNDO delivers permanent, nature-based carbon removal by enhancing rock weathering to capture CO₂ while improving soil health and crop yields.d store it on-site, making carbon removal scalable and more accessible.
Founder: Jim Mann
Vaulted Deep
Vaulted Deep permanently removes carbon by geologically injecting organic waste deep underground, transforming overburdened waste systems into scalable, safe, and verified carbon removal infrastructure.
Founders: Julia Reichelstein and Omar Abou-Sayed
CDL Space (2024/25)
The Space stream of Creative Destruction Lab is designed for deep tech founders pursuing commercial space opportunities, addressing the inherent challenges of accessing and utilizing space sustainably, with a focus on ensuring the long-term viability of space activities. The program is supported by CDL-Toronto, CDL-Paris, and now CDL-Texas, and CDL-Milan.
Example innovation areas: Satellite communications, Earth observation, Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), Computing and data processing, Space Situational Awareness, Space logistics and manufacturing, Satellite hardware…
Here are the 16 graduate ventures from the CDL Global Space stream:
ADAM Aerospace
ADAM Aerospace develops transformative technologies that integrate advanced distributed ledger systems and cybersecurity into real-world applications for both government and private sectors.
Founder: Michael Adam
Asteroid Mining Corporation
Asteroid Mining Corporation is the UK’s first space mining company, developing technologies to extract, process, and utilize materials from near-Earth and deep-space asteroids.
Founders: Mitch Hunter-Scullion
Astroteq.ai
AstroTeq.ai develops advanced analysis and multichannel monitoring technologies to better understand earthquakes and track seismic activity at unprecedented levels.
Founders: Noemi Zabari, Kevin Cheminant, Itamar Zabari
Blue Cubed
Blue Cubed delivers simplified laser communication solutions that empower small satellites with reliable, mission-critical connectivity.
Founder: Jonathan Twichell
Cambrian Works Inc.
Cambrian Works develops space-to-space connectivity solutions, enabling seamless, real-time interoperation across constellations and space systems using proven terrestrial Internet standards.
Founder: Victor Aguero, Simon Lee
InSpacePropulsion Technologies
InSpacePropulsion delivers safe, affordable, and reliable propulsion systems for spacecraft, from CubeSats to large satellites.
Founders: Lukas Werling, Felix Lauck
Juno Propulsion Inc.
Juno Propulsion develops and tests next-generation rocket propulsion to power the next phase of humanity’s presence in space.
Founders: Alexis Harroun, Ariana Martinez
LEAP
Leap is transforming space logistics, building rapid-response, mass-producible launch systems for defense, commercial, and global logistics.
Founders: Landon Luick, Michael Manuel
Lodestar Space
Lodestar develops autonomous, mission-responsive orbital security systems, enabling spacecraft to engage unknown targets and safeguard critical space infrastructure.
Founders: Thomas Santini, Neil Buchanan
Marble Imaging AG
Marble Imaging is creating Europe’s first high-resolution Earth observation constellation to deliver daily satellite data and AI-driven insights for global sustainability and security.
Founders: Robert Hook, Gopika Suresh, Alexander Epp, Raul Scarlat.
NordSpace Corp.
NordSpace is a canadian aerospace company specialized in developing small vertically integrated launch vehicles including the Taiga and Tundra rockets, and small satellite hardware.
Founder: Rahul Goel
O Analytics Incorporated
O Analytics develops algorithmic software for real-time satellite identification and hypersonic target tracking, detecting and characterizing previously unseen space objects.
Founder: Stacey Jones
Orbital Paradigm
Orbital Paradigm is developing Kestrel, a reusable and affordable space return vehicle enabling frequent low-acceleration reentry missions for biotech, pharma, advanced materials, and in-orbit demonstration companies.
Founders: Francesco Cacciatore, Víctor Gómez
Paratus Medical (Formerly ResusMind)
Paratus is revolutionizing emergency medical response with an offline, AI-powered mobile tool that guides providers through life-saving decisions in the critical first hours of care, even in the most remote locations.
Founders: Frederic Lemaire, Jean François Couture
Parsimoni
Parsimoni is unlocking the future of satellite software with SpaceOS, a secure and flexible operating system that enables in-orbit app management, maximizes satellite utility, and lays the foundation for a global satellite App Store.
Founders: Thomas Gazagnaire, Miklos Tomka
Spatiam Corporation
Spatiam is pioneering the first commercial DTN platform with multi-administration and zero-trust security, solving the challenges of slow, unreliable, and delayed space communications to enable safer, more effective interplanetary exploration.
Founders: Alberto Montilla Bravo, Alberto Montilla Ochoa, Eric Hill