Chips Venture Forum 2026 — Selected companies
62 semiconductor start-ups from across Europe, affiliated with a Chips Competence Centre or backed by the EIC or EuroCDP, were selected by a jury of investors and industry experts for investor meetings. They span 12 market categories — a start-up can belong to several. Filter by category, or select a company to read its full profile on blumorpho.com.
62 of 62 companies
Agate Sensors
AGATE Sensors develops software‑defined spectral sensing technology that enables hyperspectral imaging on mass‑market consumer devices. Our solution combines custom sensor architectures with computational imaging and signal‑processing software to extract rich spectral information using low‑cost, compact hardware suitable for drones, CUAS, smartphones, wearables, and edge devices.
AiQUOS
AiQUOS develops multiparametric electrochemical smart probes for real-time monitoring of aqueous media. Our core innovation is a proprietary neuromorphic ASIC (~1 mm² CMOS) embedded directly inside the probe, enabling continuous, in-situ water quality analysis with ultra-low power consumption and no manual calibration. Target markets: aquaculture (RAS), industrial water treatment, hydroponics.
ALCYON PHOTONICS
Alcyon Photonics develops integrated photonic building blocks and IP that enable high-performance, energy-efficient optical systems for AI, data communications, and sensing applications.
Belfort Labs
Belfort Labs is a KU Leuven COSIC spin-off building hardware acceleration for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Our product roadmap centres on GPU acceleration today, with a custom ASIC on the 2028 roadmap. We make Encrypted Compute fast and practical so customers can process data while it stays encrypted, with no decryption and no exposure. Trust starts with the infrastructure.
Biio
We enable the next generation of intelligent physical systems – within wearables, robotics, defense, IoT or mobility. Biio is developing a physical intelligence platform, starting from a chip with a fully digital architecture that eliminates the data movement bottleneck. This delivers up to 100x lower power per inference while maintaining high accuracy.
Celtonn
Celtonn design and manufacture millimetre wave components, specialising in W-Band Systems for satellite link applications
Circuits Integrated
CIH is a fabless RF and microwave semiconductor company developing Kythrion, a 3D integrated antenna IC for flat-panel phased arrays. The solution combines transmit, receive and antenna functions using III-V and silicon technologies to reduce size, weight, power and cost for SATCOM, Earth observation, defense and high-frequency communications systems.
Comptek Solutions
Comptek Solutions develops advanced passivation and surface engineering technologies for compound semiconductor materials and devices. We provide customized surface treatment processes, technology transfer services, and manufacturing equipment. We also design tailored characterization tools based on advanced optical and spectroscopic methods to support process development and production.
CORIS Cooling
We develop directly integrated cold plates on the backside of the die for high-power chips in data centres. Our products enable a 40% improvement in thermal conductivity, directly translating to improved compute performance and a cooling energy consumption reduction for data centre chips.
Cornea Sense Oy
Cornea Sense is a medtech company developing a non‑invasive diagnostic solution for objective corneal hydration measurement. Using terahertz (THz) sensing combined with OCT, we provide quantitative hydration data for ophthalmology and optometry, enabling more reliable diagnostics, monitoring, and future preventive applications.
Dappler Labs
Dappler Labs develops advanced inspection and metrology solutions on patterned wafers for semiconductor manufacturing. We provide a high-throughput optical platform (MetroQR) to detect process variability on patterned wafers, enabling faster yield learning and process control at advanced nodes.
DiagnostiQS
DiagnostiQS develops chip-integrated diamond quantum sensors for next-generation measurement systems. Using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond, its platform enables room-temperature, ultra-sensitive magnetometry for contactless wafer inspection, failure analysis, battery diagnostics and high-precision current monitoring, with future use in chemical and biomedical analysis.
Djolt AB
Djolt is building the AI-enabled identity ledger for the global electronics component supply chain. Sellers (manufacturers & distributors) need verified visibility into end-buyer identity to enforce pricing integrity and comply with export controls. Djolt Passport delivers unprecedented traceability into every transaction: a structural input to European supply chain resilience.
Doors Photonics
Doors Photonics is a deep-tech startup specialized in integrated photonics. Using its proprietary HyGlass technology, it develops ultra-low-noise lasers on glass substrates. Its solutions (single and multi-wavelength modules) offer fiber-laser precision with 100x more compactness, targeting LiDAR, quantum tech, and coherent telecoms.
Endurance Semiconductors
Endurance Semiconductors is developing a silicon-based wide bandgap platform using 3C-SiC-on-silicon technology, enabling high-performance power devices with the cost and scalability of silicon. The platform targets next-generation power electronics, improving efficiency, reliability, and system cost across EV, data centre, and industrial applications.
energHius SL
energHius enables the next generation of ultra-small, battery-free IoT nodes. The NSDC500 — an all-in-one PMU & microcontroller IC — harvests DC ambient energy (indoor light, thermal gradients) from power levels 1,000× lower than any commercial PMU, integrating everything in a fully monolithic 1 mm² chip with zero external components.
Eulerwave
Eulerwave is a deep tech startup building semiconductor enabled acoustic privacy for Voice AI. Our full stack, non wearable platform enables private speaking, private listening, and on device intelligence in shared spaces. Our roadmap is to develop a fabless, chip enabled platform for hospitality, mobility, and AI devices, contributing to a new European semiconductor application category.
Flow Computing
We develop Flow PPU - it is tightly integrated co-processor alongside the CPU. Flow PPU ushers in & enables next generation of CPUs, by delivering performance leaps far beyond current growth pace & modest improvements seen across CPU generations. CPU enhanced with the Flow PPU is fully backward-compatible with existing applications & tools. We engage with CPU companies as our target customers.
FrostByte
FrostByte develops cryogenic electronics to scale quantum systems. We have a strong research background in cryo-CMOS and quantum systems, which enable us to develop relevant and targeted solutions for quantum devices.
FurnaQuantum
FurnaQuantum is developing the first scalable 12-inch Silicon Carbide (SiC) wafer manufacturing platform for AI, EV, energy, and power semiconductors. Using our proprietary QPA™ technology, validated through 6” and 8” progress, we reduce growth temperature, energy use, cost, and defects—unlocking scalable next-generation semiconductor manufacturing.
GeNeXIC GmbH
GeNeXIC is a deep-tech semiconductor startup developing ultra-high-speed analog and mixed-signal ICs for optical interconnects in AI and data center infrastructure. We combine photonic-device understanding, reusable IP, and EIC–PIC co-design to reduce power, integration, and time-to-market bottlenecks, enabling lower-power, higher-density optical IOs.
IC Optimize
IC Optimize develops software products, which makes design og analog and mixed signal circuits faster and better.
ICECAP
ICECAP Systems University of Malta spinout developing adaptive thermoelectric cooling for semicondcutor, photonics and compact electronic systems. Using patented dynamic power optimisation, multi-sensor feedback and proprietary thermal-isolation techniques ICECAP enables efficient, compact and precise cooling where conventional TEC controllers are inefficient and bulky.
ICwaves
ICwaves is a deep-tech chip company designing "at-sensor" digitization ASICs for high-fidelity, scalable MRI, Ultrasound, and other imaging systems. Our proprietary chips perform direct digital conversion at the signal source, replacing hundreds of components to reduce system complexity and cost. Goal: Scale our unique silicon architecture to become the global standard for medical digital imaging.
Iddo (Innovative Devices Driving Objects)
IDDO is developing Europe's first sovereign radar-on-chip platform - highly integrated RF ICs designed specifically for military and automotive ADAS radar applications. Scalable multi-band architecture (L/S/C/X/Ka up to W) with superior performance (NF, linearity, dynamic range).
InSpek
InSpek is a French photonic chip company, spin-off from MIT and CNRS in 2021, building mm²-scale sensors that bring bioprocess monitoring onto a single chip. Our first market is biopharmaceutical process monitoring, but the same SiN photonic platform extends to pharma, food, chemistry and environmental sensing, with tailored AI models powering process optimization.
INTERA GROUP
INTERA is a deep-tech semiconductor company developing energy-efficient AI acceleration solutions. Its patented CMOS-based in-memory computing technology (PCPC) enables high-performance, low-latency processing with reduced power consumption. INTERA provides IP and architecture solutions for integration into ASICs and SoCs, targeting Edge AI, IoT, and advanced computing applications.
iQrypto
iQrypto develops silicon-based quantum random number generators and specialized electronic control and readout systems for Quantum & deep-tech applications.
KD tech
KD is a Spanish semiconductor company founded in 2010, specialised in design and manufacturing of optical transceivers for high-speed communications in harsh environments. We have created the first optical transceiver for the Physical-AI world, making fibre optic the new standard for multi-gigabit communications inside autonomous vehicles, robots and industrial machines.
Korymbos Photonics
Korymbos Photonics is a metrology company providing THz Ellipsometry tools and measurements for semiconductor manufacturers.
Last Mile Semiconductor
Last Mile Semiconductor (LMS) is a Dresden fabless semiconductor company building a scalable physical AI platform on the NR+ standard, integrating AI compute, quantum safe security and licence free 1.9 GHz connectivity for secure wireless edge devices.
Layer Metrics
High precision on-chamber temperature monitoring and process control during semiconductor manufacturing processes.
LeapWave Technologies
LeapWave develops novel hybrid electrical interconnects for the microelectronic industry, continuously covering the spectrum from 0 Hz (DC) to beyond 500 GHz. Its solutions apply from chip-to-chip (interposers) to module and system levels (connectors). Using the same approach, ultra-broadband on-wafer testing probes, instrumentation front-ends and transitions to in-use connectors are offered, too.
Linque
Linque is building AI and cloud infrastructure using photonics for information processing. This enables energy-efficient and faster compute deployment in HPC, data centers and edge devices, particularly for large-scale AI models.
Lizard Photonics
We are developing a novel silicon photonics technology platform for ultra-low-power, high-density control of light by integrating nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) on a chip. Using electrostatic actuation, we enable programmable photonics with near-zero static power. Our solutions include optical switches and links for the AI data centers, with a roadmap to photonic and quantum computing.
logiicdev
Logiicdev is an Austrian fabless semiconductor startup pioneering low-SWaP-C Edge AI. We deliver robust, FPGA-based chip-to-software architectures through two UxV verticals: Physical AI (KiiGen & flagship MANTRUM SoC) and Patented Energy Management (V.nod). We empower the industry and the robotics industry with sovereign solutions, ensuring resilient autonomous systems for a sustainable future.
Magnetfab
MagnetFab develops the world’s first wafer-level micromagnet manufacturing platform. Our semiconductor-compatible technology enables high-performance magnetic functionality directly at chip scale for applications including MEMS devices, magnetic sensors, quantum technologies, and ultra-compact audio systems.
MANTISPECTRA
MantiSpectra develops ChipSense®, a patented near-infrared spectrometer-on-a-chip that enables fast, non-destructive, on-the-spot material and chemical analysis with lab-grade sensing performance. As a fabless semiconductor company, MantiSpectra provides ultra-compact, low-power sensing solutions to OEMs and ODMs for integration into wearables, home appliances, and industrial applications.
Nanopower Semiconductor
Nanopower Semiconductor develops patented ultra-low-power power management ICs that reduce system energy consumption by up to 90%. Our production-ready technology extends battery life, lowers maintenance costs and enables the next generation of AI-enabled IoT, industrial sensing, smart infrastructure and wearable devices.
Nellow
Nellow is a fabless startup revolutionizing Edge AI through its disruptive N-SPARK chip, which brings autonomous reasoning capabilities to battery-powered devices. By leveraging our own technology, we enable complex decision-making locally, eliminating cloud dependency, reducing latency and data costs while ensuring total user privacy.
Ommatidia LiDAR
Ommatidia LiDAR develops advanced photonic sensing solutions based on coherent FMCW LiDAR. Its Q-Series products deliver non-contact 3D metrology and multipoint laser Doppler vibrometry for industrial inspection, robotics, structural monitoring and automation, while its photonic chip roadmap enables scalable, compact sensing platforms.
OneFab Nordic Oy
We are an early-stage start-up. We are seeking seed funding for our operations. The team (10 people) consists of semiconductor professionals from both the technology and business sides. Our expertise lies in the introduction of new materials and the development of manufacturing processes. We are particularly familiar with RF technology, among other areas.
PULSAR Microelectronics
PULSAR, a fabless semiconductor startup, develops OptiPHY, the first merchant EIC chiplet for Co-Packaged Optics. We bridge UCIe links and silicon photonics to save AI builders $20M and 3 years of R&D. Our Cairo-born 30-members team is incorporating in Malta under the ChipStart EU cohort (Silicon Catalyst and Malta Enterprise). PULSAR is self-sustained through ASIC design services.
Quadrant Scientific
Quadrant designs and supplies electromagnetic (EM) navigation hardware & sensors for medical device OEMs & contract manufacturers. The product is a silicon On Chip Sensor (OCS) that replaces hand wound copper coil sensors & is covered by a 20 year worldwide exclusive licence from the Tyndall and UCC. The team combines 50 years’ experience in this field, Quadrants team are subject experts.
Qualinx
Qualinx is a deep-tech fabless semiconductor company with a breakthrough Digital Radio Frequency technology that fundamentally transforms how wireless receivers are designed and powered. Existing RF architectures are still mainly analog: power hungry, complex and limited in terms of flexibility. Qualinx's DRF technology solves this problem by shifting signal processing into the digital domain.
Quinas Technology
Quinas Technology is developing ULTRARAM™, a patented next-generation semiconductor memory based on III–V quantum well structures. The company focuses on advancing the technology from laboratory prototypes to scalable manufacturing, targeting AI and edge computing applications where energy efficiency and performance are critical.
Sencure
Sencure develops and markets Analog Front End IC's combining excellent signal quality with ultra low power consumption for measuring ECG, EEG and EMG signals in medical and consumer health wearables
Shinephi
shinephi is a deeptech spin-off from ICFO developing high-speed optical metrology for semiconductor manufacturing. Our patented add-on imagers transform standard microscopes into high-precision tools for real-time 3D inspection with sub-nanometer vertical sensitivity (lambda/1000). We boost the industry to zero defect manufacturing by shifting from statistical sampling to 100% process control.
SiCure
SiCure is a future CSIC spin-off developing silicon carbide (SiC) dosimeters for real-time radiation monitoring in ultra-high dose environments. Applications include advanced radiotherapy, FLASH radiotherapy, nuclear, industrial and aerospace sectors requiring highly radiation-resistant detectors.
SideroGaIn GmbH
SideroGaIn builds, sells, and installs biotechnological plants that recover and recycle critical metals like gallium and indium from low-concentration wastewater in the semiconductor industry, especially from GaAs, GaN, InP, and InGaP wafer production, enabling a secure, sustainable, and geopolitically independent material supply.
Silent Waves
We develop, manufacture, and commercialize readout technologies for superconducting quantum computers.
SiPearl
SiPearl designs sovereign, energy-efficient high-performance microprocessors (CPUs) for supercomputing, AI data centers, cloud infrastructure and defense. Our flagship processor, Rhea1, features 80 Arm Neoverse cores and 61 billion transistors, making it the most complex chip ever designed in Europe.
SLICE Semiconductor
SLICE Semiconductor is a specialist, fabless mixed-signal IC design The services spans the following 2 verticals: 1. Mixed-signal IC design contracting and consulting 2. Low cost ASIC development SLICE next aims to expand into a 3rd vertical - product development for space graded ASICs.
Spiketronix
Spiketronix is bringing brain-inspired computing out of research and into industrial products. A fabless deep-tech startup spun off from Fraunhofer IPMS, we develop ultra-low-power neuromorphic accelerators for edge AI. Our platform combines spiking neural network architectures, non-volatile in-memory compute, and a hardware-aware SDK into the first deployable neuromorphic edge-AI chip platform.
StarWarden
StarWarden develops an integrated cooling solution to handle the intense heat generated by the next generation semiconductor devices. We enable these to reach performance levels that are several times higher than is currently possible using our patented Micro Heat Pipe Array technology.
Tegnology Aps
Converting industrial waste heat into electricity using advanced thermoeletric solutions.
Veintree
Veintree has developed, patented, and commercializes a human authentication solution based on bio-cryptographic principles. Its AuthEnTHICator platform—a FPGA dongle paired with a SaaS backend—converts vein patterns into ephemeral cryptographic keys without ever storing biometric data. It is designed for mission-critical infrastructures, GovTech, Healthcare, DeFi and Web3 ecosystems.
Vertical Semiconductor
Vertical Semiconductor is an MIT spinout commercializing vertical gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors to enable the next era of AI and data center power infrastructure. Vertical is manufacturing its proprietary Vertical GaN devices in Germany, targeting AI data centers, electrified transport, and grid infrastructure.
VSTech Sensors
VSTech designs organic photodiode (OPD) sensors covering visible-to-SWIR, on standard TFT/CMOS backplanes. Our technology platform enables 3 markets: smart ring health monitoring, lensless vein biometrics, and low-cost SWIR cameras (100× cheaper than InGaAs). 75 patents, France-based production.
Wise Integration
Wise-Integration develops advanced power conversion solutions for AI, electrification and sustainable electronics. The company combines WiseGan® digital-first GaN power ICs and WiseWare® 32-bit digital control to digitalize AC/DC and DC/DC converters, making them smaller, smarter, more efficient and easier to optimize.
Wooptix
WOOPTIX is a European deep-tech company developing semiconductor metrology systems based on proprietary Wavefront Phase Imaging technology. Its flagship solution, the SAGE® Metrology Platform, enables fast, non-contact, high-resolution full-wafer measurements for wafer shape, geometry, nanotopography, process-induced distortion and advanced packaging applications.
Zadient Technologies
Silicon carbide source material and wafer production
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