Alain le Loux

General Partner

2014 - Current

DISRUPTIVE CAPITAL FOR DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS Cottonwood Technology Fund is a top-tier early stage deeptech venture capital fund. Cottonwood Technology Fund is a transatlantic VC firm which focuses primarily on deeptech startups that have the potential to break through internationally and feature patented technology that can provide a disruption in global markets. Geographical focus on Southwest USA and Northern Europe. Cottonwood’s investment focus is high tech technology / hard science (patent based): photonics, optics, advanced materials, automotive, energy, telecom, robotics & high-tech health. Cottonwood doesn't invest in software or apps.

Board Member / Investor

2023

Board Member / Investor

2022

Member Board Of Directors / Investor

2021

Sencure developed an ultra-low power biometric sensing chip offering wearable biometric solutions across a wide range of applications for medical technology companies. The comprehensive uses of the technology include easier (remote) patient monitoring and diagnostics for cardiac cases, COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), children’s asthma, neurological cases and Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, as well as enabling ICU grade ventilation and monitoring of vital signs. It can be used across multiple products, for monitoring COVID-19 symptoms, enabling better training or rehabilitation for athletes and more generally to monitor stress and activity levels in people’s daily lives.

Board Advisor

2020

Valotoire Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris focused on investing in early-stage French companies in the deep tech space. Acting as a Board Advisor to advice the Valotoire Ventures team.

Member

2020

Investor / Member Board Of Directors

2017

SoundEnergy is a technology company that has developed Thermo Acoustic Energy Converter, THEAC-25, developed by SoundEnergy will function as a central unit in the installation concept for climate control. Its core function is converting heat into cold by using thermoacoustic technology. Feeding heat input into one side of the THEAC-25 results into cold output at the other side, enabling the production of cold water or cold air. The output of the THEAC-25 can reach temperatures below −30°C.

Board Director / Angel Investor

2017

LipoCoat is a spin-off company of the University of Twente (MESA+ nanotechnology institute). The revolutionary LipoCoat coating technology will make any (bio)material surface non-thrombogenic, non-fouling and resistant towards surface pollution of micro-organisms and proteins. The use of LipoCoat coatings can increase the performance, comfort and safety of medical devices or enhance research applications.

Investor / Member Board of Directors

2015

OPNT provides optical time and frequency distribution at such high accuracy levels it enables ground-breaking new capabilities, which has so far been realized only by highly specialized teams of academic researchers. OPNT is a spin-off company of LaserLaB at VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and as such it is firmly based in the highly specialized world of academic time and frequency transfer research. It is the mission of OPNT to make state-of-the-art solutions available to businesses in need of accurate timing, offering reliable and affordable solutions for state-of-the-art network timing, independence of GPS timing, and reduced OPEX.

Investor / Member Board of Directors

2015

Flexiramics is the first worldwide provider of nanotechnology based flexible ceramics. They have developed a flexible ceramic PCB concept, merging the flexibility and lightweight of the polymer with the temperature stability and electrical insulation of a ceramic PCB. The concept offers a low dielectric constant and losses while keeping relatively high dielectric strength, thus providing an excellent platform for high quality signal transmission in several environments. The heat conductivity of the flexible ceramic PCB is much superior to that of the standard ceramic PCB. This unique capability of the flexible ceramic PCBs is one of the innovations enabled on the ceramic nanotechnology platform and the first product the company plans to bring the market. The flexible ceramic PCB can create breakthroughs in the fields of telecommunications, power electronics and high temperature sensing. Its properties will enable industry to break the design rules of electronic systems and devices, paving the way for new novel product concepts.