Chips Venture Forum 2025
On 18 November 2025, the first full edition of the Chips Venture Forum gathered more than 165 participants at Messe München, alongside SEMICON Europa. 18 companies were selected from 87 applications and more than €50 million in deals were negotiated.
Awards
The companies recognised in 2025
The CVF Award recognises European semiconductor innovators for technological innovation, market potential and strategic relevance for Europe. The technologies represented in 2025 spanned advanced materials, chip architectures, photonics, sensing, green manufacturing and AI-driven microelectronics.
CVF Award 2025
Vertical Compute
Represented by Sylvain Dubois. In-memory computing architectures that merge logic and MRAM to overcome the data-compute bottleneck, for efficient AI and edge processing.
Jury special mention · Sustainable semiconductors
FaradaIC Sensors
Represented by Ryan Guterman. Electrochemical gas sensors miniaturised onto microchips, for compact, low-power detection in IoT, medical and industrial applications.
Jury special mention · Energy-efficient devices
SpiNNcloud
Represented by Matthias Lohrmann. Brain-inspired AI-inference infrastructure for energy-efficient, low-latency computing.
Programme · 18 November 2025
ICM, Messe München
Agenda
- 09:20
Welcome
Marco Ceccarelli (European Commission, DG CONNECT) · Isabel Obieta (EIC) · Régis Hamelin (aCCCess)
- 09:30
Keynote — Europe's path to semiconductor leadership, the key role of Competence Centres
Pierre Chastanet, Head of Unit Microelectronics and Photonics Industry, European Commission
- 09:45
Pitch sessions 1, 2 and 3 · one-to-one meetings
18 selected start-ups, 6 per session
- 13:35
Panel — How to make Europe an end-user market and a strong value chain for European chips
Moderator Régis Hamelin (Blumorpho) · Timo Tenhovuori (Nokia) · José Miguel Pascual (Indra) · Sarah Luppino (M Ventures) · Elly Zwartkruis (ChipsNL, Brainport Development) · Katharina Westrich (Siemens)
- 16:30
Panel — A strong financial value chain for the European semiconductor industry
Moderator Géraldine Andrieux (Blumorpho) · Marco Ceccarelli (European Commission) · Helmut Gassel (Sillian Partners) · Christian Reitberger (Matterwave Ventures) · Christian Claussen (Ventech) · Thomas Ferré (European Investment Bank)
- 17:10
CVF Award ceremony · key takeaways · closing cocktail
Download the CVF 2025 booklet
The 2025 selected companies, the jury and the key takeaways.
Gallery
From the 2025 edition
Operated by Blumorpho · Organised with the support of the European Commission, within aCCCess in partnership with EIC and EuroCDP
aCCCess has received funding from the European Union’s Digital Europe Chips JU under Grant Agreement No 101217840.
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