Deep Tech startup ecosystem
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hermann Hauser Frontier Lab 2026 (September 2026)
A one-week intensive deep-tech commercialization program, successor to the I.E.C.T. Summer School, for ambitious founders preparing a pre-seed or seed raise within the next year. The week of mentorship and collaboration culminates in a Demo Day where founders pitch to a curated group of investors and corporate partners. In 2026 the program is hosted in Styria.
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High Tech Campus Eindhoven
High Tech Campus Eindhoven is one of Europe's most concentrated technology innovation ecosystems, hosting over 300 companies and 12,000 researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs on a single 100-hectare campus in the south of the Netherlands. Originally developed by Philips as its corporate research campus in the 1990s, HTCE was opened to external companies in 2003 and has since evolved into a thriving open-innovation community often called 'the smartest square kilometer in Europe.' The campus specializes in hardware, semiconductors, photonics, medtech, AI, and IoT, anchored by the presence of NXP Semiconductors, Philips, and ASML nearby. Startups on the campus benefit from shared R&D facilities including cleanrooms, prototyping labs, and testing equipment that would otherwise be inaccessible at early stages. HTCE also operates the HighTechXL accelerator on-site, providing deep-tech startups with structured programs, ESA and CERN technology transfer partnerships, and investor introductions.
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HighTech Startbahn
Dresden-based deep-tech ecosystem builder and organizer of HighTech Venture Days, an invitation-only investor matchmaking event pairing selected European hardtech and deep-tech startups with international venture capital, corporate VCs and family offices across semiconductors, robotics, energy and advanced materials.
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HighTech Venture Days 2026 (October 2026)
HighTech Venture Days is an exclusive, curated matchmaking event pairing selected European deep-tech and hardtech startups with international VCs, corporate VCs, family offices and industry leaders. Focus areas span semiconductors, robotics, advanced materials, renewable energy, mobility, space and defense. It emphasizes one-on-one investor meetings over a traditional trade-fair format, built directly for capital-seeking founders.
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HighTechXL
Deep-tech venture builder at High Tech Campus Eindhoven (est. 2015). Runs a 9-month venture-building program turning advanced tech from CERN, ESA, and others into startups; exits include Accerion. Support: co-founding teams, seed funding, R&D ecosystem access. Scope: International.
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Hiventures
Hiventures is Hungary's largest state-backed venture capital firm, operating under the Hungarian Development Bank Group with approximately €258 million under management. Founded in 1999, it is the most active VC in Central and Eastern Europe by deal count, with over 420 investments made to date. The firm focuses exclusively on Hungarian startups and invests across all stages from pre-seed through growth, with a current thematic emphasis on AI, DeepTech, MedTech, and GreenTech. Its co-investment model and patient capital approach make it the primary first institutional money for Hungarian founders.
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House of Startups
A 6,000 m² campus in Luxembourg City's station district that federates the country's main incubators, accelerators, and startup support organisations under one roof. Opened in June 2018, it hosts between 150 and 200 startups and is home to Luxembourg-City Incubator, LHoFT, Le Village by CA, and the International Climate Finance Accelerator. Backed by the City of Luxembourg and Chamber of Commerce.
