Europe doubled down on frontier innovation – from billion-euro public initiatives to record quantum and biotech funding – as new research programs, spinouts, and policy moves continued to push deep tech from labs to markets.
Policy & ecosystem
- EIT Governing Board approves €978M for European innovation and skills [EIT]
- EU Ministers call for a revision of the EU Chips Act [Euractiv]
- European Commission launches €22.5M “Choose Europe for Science” to retain researchers [EC]
- All-Atlantic Forum announces new initiatives for coastal resilience and scientific collaboration [EC]
- Record number of proposals submitted for the EIC Transition call [EIC]
Quantum & frontier tech
- Denmark launches the world’s largest quantum fund [Tech.eu]
- kiutra raises €13M to remove helium-3 bottlenecks in quantum cooling [Press release]
- 11 European quantum startup operators to watch [Sifted]
- SafePAS (Estonia) wins €2.5M EU grant for safety technology [Invest in Estonia]
- Creator Fund secures $41M to back Europe’s top PhD deep tech founders [Startup Rise]
- Commercialization Reactor opens next cycle of its Ignition Qualifiers program [Labs of Latvia]
- UniLab Elevate welcomes 11 new science-to-startup teams [UniLab]
Biotech & medtech
- Leyden Labs nets €30M, months after €20M EIB backing [Silicon Canals]
- Aerska launches with €17.8M Seed to tackle Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s [Silicon Canals]
- SeaBeLife raises €2M for liver and eye disease therapies [Tech.eu]
- RTU scientists establish a new MedTech spinout in Latvia [Labs of Latvia]
Climate, energy & industrial tech
- FenX (Switzerland) secures CHF 8.2M Series A for sustainable materials [startupticker.ch]
- Optimuse raises €4M to make building design smarter and greener [Tech.eu]
- GBM Works completes €6.2M Seed round for offshore foundation technology [Silicon Canals]
- New turbine design unlocks potential of deep-water wind energy [CORDIS]