PAUL STEFANUT

Paul is the co-founder and president of Booster Labs, a DeepTech startup accelerator. After obtaining his PhD in the field of micro and nanotechnologies, Paul worked for 5 years as the technical manager of a team in a consulting firm that helps companies secure public funding for innovation and R&D. Paul then joined Opticsvalley – the photonics and DeepTech cluster of the Île-de-France region – in March 2015, where he became the head of the Business & Innovation team in 2017. His main responsibilities involved supporting DeepTech companies in the Île-de-France region throughout their development cycle, finding solutions to technical problems, fostering collaborations, technology transfer, and the emergence of innovative projects supported by public funds. Today, in addition to providing individual assistance to DeepTech startups, Paul is tasked with designing and implementing EU-funded projects to support European startup and innovation ecosystems and testing new approaches to contribute to the emergence and development of breakthrough solutions.