Hardware startup ecosystem
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Enric Asunción
Co-founder and CEO of Wallbox, the Barcelona EV-charging company that listed on the NYSE. A former Tesla charging engineer, he co-founded Wallbox in 2015 to build smart home and public charging hardware and software.
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Eric Larchevêque
Co-founder and former CEO of Ledger, the crypto hardware-wallet maker he co-founded in 2014 and grew into a global security leader. A serial entrepreneur, he is also a well-known figure in French startup media.
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Estimote
Estimote is a Kraków-founded IoT company that pioneered the Bluetooth-beacon category for indoor proximity, micro-location, and workplace safety. Co-founded by Jakub Krzych and Łukasz Kostka, with early backing from Polish operator-angels including Andrzej Targosz and the Netguru founders (Schmidt, Filipowski), Estimote went on to raise from US investors and pivoted toward workplace and wearable safety devices used by major enterprises.
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Eventech
Eventech is a Latvian deep-tech company building picosecond-precise, highly reliable time-tagging hardware for space and Earth applications, based on more than 40 years of combined experience in time-to-digital conversion (TDC) data acquisition. Its time taggers have flight heritage including the Hera mission, and the company sells hardware alongside R&D and support services.
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Evertiq Expo Lund 2026
Southern Sweden's biggest electronics-industry expo at Sparbanken Skåne Arena, targeting design and purchasing professionals across smart city, transport, and medtech. Relevant for hardware founders in the Öresund region.
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Evertiq Expo Lund 2027
Evertiq Expo Lund 2027 is a free one-day electronics industry expo held on 20 May at Sparbanken Skane Arena, for professionals working in design and purchasing of electronics. Lund and the Oresund region are among Sweden's fastest-growing hubs for electronics design and production, home to Ericsson's early mobile development and institutions like ESS and MAX IV.
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Exeger
Exeger is a Stockholm-based deep-tech company that manufactures Powerfoyle, a patented, silicon-free dye-sensitised solar-cell material that converts both indoor and outdoor light into electricity. Founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Giovanni Fili and scientist Dr Henrik Lindström — joint winners of the European Inventor Award in 2021 — the company spent a decade developing and patenting the technology before scaling commercial production at two factories in Kista, Stockholm. Powerfoyle is integrated as a thin, flexible film directly into product surfaces, removing the need for charging cables or disposable batteries. Shipping products span headphones and earbuds (Urbanista, adidas), cycling helmets (POC), professional hearing protection (3M Peltor), digital shelf labels (VusionGroup), remote controls (Philips, Hama) and IoT sensors. Exeger has raised over €169M from backers including SoftBank, Swedish pension fund AMF, the European Investment Bank (€35M InvestEU loan) and Fortum, and in late 2025 secured a SEK 130M grant from the Swedish Energy Agency and was selected for the NATO DIANA defence accelerator.
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fablab.sh
fablab.sh, located at Fraunhoferstraße 2–4 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district, is the city's first open-access high-tech fabrication workshop and functions as both a community makerspace and a hardware prototyping hub for startups and SMEs throughout Schleswig-Holstein. The facility is operated under the opencampus.sh umbrella and is closely connected with the MakerCube Re:Invent initiative, a partly EU-funded digital-fabrication programme designed to bring professional manufacturing tools to startups, craftspeople, and student teams. Equipment includes FDM, SLA, and SLS 3D printers, laser cutters, cutting plotters, five-axis CNC milling machines, and 3D scanners capable of capturing objects up to three metres in diameter. Open Lab Days run every Thursday from 11:00 to 19:00, providing walk-in access for members of the public and registered users alike. The MakerCube programme supplements the standing facility with expert consulting, mentoring, and structured workshops. The space targets hardware founders seeking rapid physical prototyping without committing to factory tooling, researchers requiring bespoke instrumentation, and vocational learners acquiring digital-fabrication skills. Access for qualifying participants in MakerCube programme is free of charge; general membership fees are available on enquiry. The lab's proximity to opencampus.sh's StarterKitchen coworking space creates a natural pathway for founders moving from software ideation to physical prototype. Pricing tier: €.
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Framery
Framery is a Finnish hardware manufacturer that designs and produces soundproof office pods and phone booths for open-plan workplaces. The company was founded in 2010 in Tampere, Finland by Samu Hällfors and Vesa-Matti Marjamäki after they were unable to find a ready-made solution for noise in their own open-plan office. Its product range includes the Framery One, Four and Six pods plus the newer Gradus line, along with workplace technology such as occupancy sensors, room displays and a management platform called Framery Connect. The company is headquartered and manufactures in Tampere, and in 2018 private equity firm Vaaka Partners became the majority owner.
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France Quantum 2026
The flagship summit of the French quantum ecosystem, held at Station F for its 5th edition. For deeptech founders and researchers it concentrates the country's quantum hardware and software players, corporates, and specialist investors into one day of conferences and demos.
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France Quantum 2027
France Quantum's 6th edition takes place at Station F in Paris on 15 June 2027. Running since 2020, the summit unites research labs, startups and industry leaders to showcase the French quantum ecosystem through conferences, a demo zone and networking with public and private sector players.
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Garage48 Future of Wood 2026 (October 2026)
Garage48 Future of Wood is a three-day hackathon where multidisciplinary teams build working prototypes — software, physical or architectural — that advance sustainable uses of wood and timber construction. Held at EWERS Tehnomaja in Väimela in southern Estonia's wood-processing competence hub, past editions have launched startups such as Single.Earth.
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Grand Garage
Grand Garage is a makerspace and educational workshop embedded within the Tabakfabrik Linz campus at Peter-Behrens-Platz 6, 4020 Linz. The facility spans approximately 2,000 square metres and equips members with access to more than 40 professional machines covering laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC routers, electronics workbenches, and analogue woodworking tools. Members enjoy 24/7 keycard access to the production floor, while drop-in workshop hours run Tuesday through Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings for non-members and students. The space positions itself explicitly at the intersection of digital fabrication and skills education: alongside open membership it runs structured workshop programmes for schools and vocational training institutions throughout Upper Austria. Startups and product developers use Grand Garage primarily for rapid hardware prototyping — moving from concept sketches to physical prototypes without committing to factory tooling. Companies, associations, and educational institutions are listed as cooperation partners, giving the space a hybrid character between a community makerspace and a light industrial R&D facility. The membership model supports both individual makers and team-level access, consistent with an open-floor coworking approach applied to physical production rather than desk work.
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HansaMatrix
HansaMatrix is a Latvian electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with more than 25 years of experience industrializing electronic products and systems for clients in transportation, telecommunications, energy management, IoT and other sectors. It is one of the leading electronics manufacturers in Northern Europe, offering full-cycle production from prototyping through supply-chain and manufacturing services.
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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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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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Huddly
Huddly is an Oslo-based hardware company, founded in 2013, that designs AI-powered video conferencing cameras and meeting room systems, including the Huddly C1 and multi-camera Crew system with built-in audio. Its on-device AI adapts the video and audio experience so remote participants are better seen and heard in hybrid meetings on platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. The company has a global presence across the US, EMEA, and APAC with worldwide distribution.
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IFA Berlin
Organizer of IFA Berlin, one of the world's oldest and largest consumer electronics trade shows, running since 1924. Each September the event attracts over 180,000 visitors and features startup-focused programs like IFA NEXT, giving hardware and smart-home founders a global stage alongside major brands and media coverage.
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IFA Berlin 2026
Flagship global consumer electronics trade show at Messe Berlin and a major launch platform for hardware and smart-home products. Startup-focused programs such as IFA NEXT help early-stage teams access media, distribution, and manufacturing partners.
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International Drone Show 2026
A professional drone-industry conference and exhibition at HCA Airport, organised by Denmark's robotics cluster Odense Robotics. Covers defence, legislation, and advanced air mobility — relevant for hardware and dual-use founders.
