#XrisLogbook 135 - From Da Vinci’s Lab to Tomorrow’s Capital 🇫🇷

👍🏻 Honored to contribute to Les Echos on how venture capital is shifting toward a future where sovereignty isn’t optional, it’s foundational. 🗞️

👎🏻 Iceland is the only country where even mosquitoes can’t scale. Turns out, real sovereignty means controlling your borders… even the micro ones.🦟

✍🏻 Tucked away in the Loire Valley, the Château du Clos Lucé wasn’t just Leonardo da Vinci’s final residence, it was his 16th-century version of a sovereign innovation bunker. Invited by King Francis I in 1516 (basically the original startup investor), Leonardo showed up with notebooks, blueprints, and the Mona Lisa. Hidden tunnels connected the château to the royal residence so the king could visit privately… or maybe just avoid palace politics. Rumor has it Leonardo spent his final days perfecting wild inventions in his underground lab from flying machines to early prototypes of the future. 🎨

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Anna Logacheva , Erin Carey , Candice Baudet

🌟 Star of the Week: Lise for welcoming CACEIS as a new minority shareholder, joining the ranks alongside BNP Paribas and Bpifrance.


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