Chips Venture Forum 2026 — Programme
Two events, one selection: CVF Selection in Bordeaux on 21–22 October, and the CVF Final in Munich on 11 November 2026.
Phase 1 · CVF Selection
21–22 October 2026 · Bordeaux
Palais de la Bourse, 17 place de la Bourse, 33000 BordeauxMap
The CVF Selection opens the week of the INPHO Venture Summit (22–23 October 2026): participants have full access to the Summit and to the investors already in the room.
62 selected companies are invited to Bordeaux: all present their company to investors in one-to-one meetings and take part in the investor dialogue, and pitch live in the market panels.
Each pitch session gathers four market panels of three companies. The companies explain together why their market matters and what each brings to it (9 minutes), then the discussion opens (6 minutes): the room questions the start-ups, and the start-ups question the investors.
INPHO Venture SummitWednesday 21 October · afternoon
- 15:00–15:20
Welcome and opening
Framing of the Forum and Chips Act 2.0 priorities
- 15:20–16:20
One-to-one meetings #1
Pre-matched investor ⋅ start-up meetings
- 16:20–16:50
Networking and coffee break
- 16:50–17:55
Session 1 — Photonics & Computing for AI
12 elevator pitches (3 min each) + 10 min Q&A
- Optical interconnects for AI: KD Tech · Linque · Lizard Photonics
- Advanced photonics & optical chiplets: PULSAR Microelectronics · GeNeXIC · Alcyon Photonics
- Edge AI & neuromorphic computing: Spiketronix · Biio · Nellow
- Secure computing, memory & HPC: Belfort Labs · Quinas Technology · Flow Computing
- 17:55–19:30
Standing dinner cocktail and networking
- 19:30
Day 1 wrap-up
Thursday 22 October · morning
- 08:30–08:40
Welcome coffee
Briefing on the day
- 08:40–09:45
Session 2 — Sovereignty
12 elevator pitches (3 min each) + 10 min Q&A
- RF, radar & sovereign connectivity: Iddo · Qualinx · Celtonn
- Digital health & medical sensors: Sencure · ICwaves · Quadrant Scientific
- Sensors, MEMS & imaging: VSTech Sensors · Eulerwave · Magnetfab
- Precision photonics, LiDAR & imaging: Doors Photonics · Ommatidia LiDAR · Agate Sensors
- 09:45–09:55
Break
- 09:55–11:00
Session 3 — Foundations
12 elevator pitches (3 min each) + 10 min Q&A
- Materials & substrates: Zadient Technologies · Endurance Semiconductors · SideroGaIn
- Power, energy & thermal: Wise Integration · Tegnology · CORIS Cooling
- Design, EDA & metrology: IC Optimize · Shinephi · Layer Metrics
- Quantum & cryogenics: DiagnostiQS · Silent Waves · FrostByte
- 11:00–12:00
One-to-one meetings #2
Second wave · closing remarks
- From 12:00
Networking lunch
Then the INPHO Venture Summit
Programme subject to change. Times in CEST.
The 62 selected companies
The selected start-ups pitch across the market panels in Bordeaux. Browse them all by category, with their descriptions and profiles, on the selected companies page.
See the 62 selected companiesOperated 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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