Strong by Form raises €5.8M to take on concrete with less wood

Strong by Form, a deeptech company reimagining wood as a high-performance material, has raised €5.8 million Series A round. Founded in Chile, Strong by Form is headquartered in Madrid and also operat…

British Business Bank commits up to £46M to Zinc’s new deeptech fund

The British Business Bank has agreed to commit up to £46 million to Zinc Capital Management’s second institutional fund, the Science-for-Impact Fund, helping to accelerate the creation and growth of i…

Uplift Ventures launches €100M fund to back European deeptech startups

Uplift Ventures today announces the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe’s next generation of deeptech founders. The fund addresses one of the bigges…

Ki 13 raises $5M for affordable synthetic fuels

UK cleantech company Ki 13 (formerly Ki Hydrogen) has raised $5 millionin seed funding to build an industrial pilot plant for its biomass electrolysistechnology. The round was led by HICO Investment G…

INLEAP Photonics raises €20M to expand laser counter-drone systems

German deeptechcompany INLEAP Photonics has raised approximately €20 million in seed fundingto scale its laser-based counter-drone technology for defence and criticalinfrastructure applications. The r…

S-Transistors raises €2.6M for superconducting quantum computing platform

Finnishquantum technology startup S-Transistors has raised €2.6 million in pre-seedfunding to develop integrated circuits based on superconducting transistors,initially targeting the control and signa…

Solinide closes €4M to commercialise photonic chips for AI data centres

Swedish deeptech company Solinide Photonics has raised €4 million in seed funding to commercialise its siliconnitride photonic integrated circuit technology and prepare for scalablemanufacturing. The …

Singular Photonics lands $2.15M to develop next-generation image sensors

Edinburgh-basedsemiconductor company Singular Photonics has raised $2.15 million in anoversubscribed funding round to accelerate the development of its nextgeneration of SPAD-based image sensors. The …

Isembard founder: We’re a politician’s "wet dream"

At the tail end of London’s Bakerloo tube line, heading towards a north-west London suburb called Harlesden, the whirring sound of manufacturing, from rotating electronic motors to cooling fans, can b…

Meet the photonics scaleups building tomorrow’s critical technologies
Meet the photonics scaleups building tomorrow’s critical technologies

From faster internet and more secure satellite communications to next-generation semiconductors, quantum technologies and energy-generating greenhouses, photonics is becoming one of Europe’s most stra…