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GITEX AI Türkiye 2026
Inaugural Türkiye edition of the global GITEX brand at Istanbul Expo Center, convening AI, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud, e-commerce, and data-center leaders, backed by Türkiye's Ministry of Industry & Technology and Dubai World Trade Centre.
GITEX Europe 2026
Berlin edition of the global GITEX brand focused on sovereign AI, cybersecurity, and digital finance, connecting European startups with international buyers and investors. The event uses tiered passes (from low-cost expo tickets to premium access) and features Supernova startup competitions, with reported equity-free funding prizes up to EUR 100,000.
Glasgow Tech Week 2026
A city-wide festival in its third year, with 40+ events and 3,000+ attendees across keynotes, workshops, and community-led sessions. For a Scottish founder it is a low-cost way to plug into the Glasgow innovation ecosystem, meet investors, and showcase a startup across multiple verticals.
Global Deep Tech Battle @ CES 2026
Virtual pitch competition for deep-tech startups aligned with the CES spotlight, organized by the Austrian startup ecosystem. Features international jury panels and exposure to global investors and corporate innovation teams. Strong entry point for hardware, biotech, and frontier-tech founders seeking international visibility beyond Europe.
GOGOA
Basque Country medical robotics company developing AI-powered exoskeletons for neurological rehabilitation. Its devices combine neuromodulation techniques with wearable robotics to help patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, or multiple sclerosis regain walking ability under clinical supervision. Featured at VivaTech 2026 in Paris.
GR3N
Develops MADE (Microwave Assisted DEpolymerisation), chemical recycling for PET plastics and polyester textiles able to process PET unrecyclable by mechanical methods. Closed a €15.5M Series B to build an industrial-scale microwave PET recycling plant in Spain.
Granatus Ventures
Founded in 2013 by Manuk Hergnyan, Pierre Hennes, and Yervand Sarkisyan, Granatus Ventures is a Yerevan-headquartered deep-tech VC with ~$40M AUM and offices also in London and Singapore. The firm focuses on university spinouts across AI, biotech, advanced computing, robotics, industrial automation, and climate tech, sourcing deals from Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. Notable portfolio companies include BlueQubit (quantum software), Gecko Robotics (industrial inspection unicorn), and Zoundream (infant cry analysis). As of 2025 the fund remains actively deploying capital across its global deep-tech mandate.
Graphcore
Graphcore is a Bristol-based semiconductor company founded in 2016 that designed the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture built from the ground up for machine learning and AI workloads. The company raised over $700 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, BMW, Microsoft, and Samsung, reaching a valuation above $2.5 billion. Graphcore developed both hardware and a Poplar software stack to compete with NVIDIA in the AI accelerator market. Its IPU technology represented one of Europe's most ambitious attempts to build a homegrown AI chip ecosystem.
Gravity Ventures
Gravity Ventures is a deep-tech startup incubator and venture builder based in Nicosia, operated by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Centre (CyRIC). Founded in 2016, it is described as the only deep-tech incubator in Cyprus, supporting startups in robotics, AI, IoT, photonics, advanced manufacturing, and MedTech. The programme covers idea validation, product design, prototyping, mentoring, commercialisation, IP protection, and funding access. Gravity Ventures has incubated 18 startups and invested over €10 million across its portfolio.
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, leading model research. He previously led the LLaMA project as a research scientist at Meta AI before co-founding Mistral.
H2 Green Steel
H2 Green Steel, which now operates under the brand Stegra, is a Swedish industrial company building a near-zero-emission steel plant in Boden, Sweden, using green hydrogen instead of fossil fuels in the steelmaking process. Its stated goal is to decarbonize heavy industry, which the company notes accounts for roughly 40% of global CO2 emissions, with steel alone responsible for more than 7%.
Handwave
Handwave is a Riga-based biometrics-as-a-service startup founded in 2021 by Janis Stirna and Sandis Osmanis-Usmanis that replaces cards, phones, and apps with a palm scan for payments, age verification, loyalty activation, and access control. The platform captures both surface palm lines and subdermal vein structures to build a unique encrypted biometric ID backed by two-factor authentication. Handwave has raised €4.3 million in total funding, including a €3.6 million seed round in 2025 led by Practica Capital with participation from FirstPick and Inovo.vc, and is piloting with live retailers across Europe and the US.
Hard2beat VC
Hard2beat is a Wrocław-based pre-seed and seed venture fund founded in 2024 by Maciej Zawadziński — a serial entrepreneur with three exits including Piwik PRO (sold to Kirk Kapital in 2023) — alongside Maciej Frankowicz and Konrad Trzyna, who previously ran Shape VC's BRIdge Alpha programme. The fund closed at 84M PLN (~€20M), with PFR Ventures providing 56.5M PLN under the FENG programme and 30 private investors contributing the rest. Hard2beat backs Polish deep-tech founders from pre-revenue to early revenue with 1–3M PLN initial cheques and follow-on up to 8M PLN, targeting teams with a genuine technical moat in cybersecurity, medtech, biotech, devtools, dual-use/defence, gamedev, robotics and spacetech — explicitly avoiding B2C and shallow AI. By mid-2026 it had made seven investments including the open-source cybersecurity platform Defguard, autonomous UAV startup DefendEye, Alzheimer's wearable developer Neuromedical, neuroprotection biotech Pikralida, Unreal Engine AI copilot Ludus AI, and devtools company Graftcode (€2.1M, led with DigitalOcean Ventures, 2026).
Hello Tomorrow
A global deep tech innovation platform known for its annual Global Summit in Paris and Deep Tech Pioneers program. Founded in 2011, Hello Tomorrow has built a community of 15,000+ researchers, founders, and investors, identifying and supporting science-driven startups across biotech, energy, AI, and new materials through competitions and mentoring.
Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneers 2026
Selection process for deep-tech startups seeking curated access to Investor Day matchmaking during Amsterdam Deep Tech Days. Deadlines for Pioneer status typically close in early spring 2026 ahead of June programming.
Hello Tomorrow Global Summit & Deep Tech Days 2026
Amsterdam deep-tech flagship structured across Investor Day (June 10) and Global Summit (June 11-12), with LP/GP and founder-investor tracks. Startups targeting curated Investor Day access typically apply via Deep Tech Pioneer selection, with deadlines usually in early spring 2026.
Hello Tomorrow Global Summit & Deep Tech Days 2027
Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2027 runs 1-3 June in Amsterdam, following the event's first Amsterdam edition held at NDSM in 2026. The summit connects deep tech startups, corporates and investors around energy transition, advanced computing and venture capital, including a pitch competition for early-stage deep tech founders.
Hendrik Brandis
Co-founder and General Partner of Earlybird Venture Capital, which he started in 1997. One of Europe's most experienced venture investors, he focuses on deep tech, fintech and insurtech and has helped build Earlybird into a ~€2.5bn multi-fund platform backing companies such as N26, Isar Aerospace and Aleph Alpha.
Hermann Hauser
Austrian-British technology entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of the Cambridge-based venture firm Amadeus Capital Partners. He earlier co-founded Acorn Computers, the company whose work led to the ARM processor architecture, and has spent decades backing deep-tech, semiconductor and life-science startups across Europe.
Hermann Hauser Frontier Lab
Deep-tech commercialization program and successor to the I.E.C.T. Summer School, running since 2015. It delivers an intensive week of mentorship for science-driven founders preparing a pre-seed or seed raise, culminating in a Demo Day where teams pitch to a curated group of investors and corporate partners.
