Backed by a €27M commitment from the European Investment Fund, Czechia's first dedicated technology transfer VC fund aims to raise over €50M and support around 40 deep-tech projects, turning academic research into commercially viable startups.
Embedd, founded by three Ukrainian entrepreneurs whose previous hardware company was disrupted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has secured pre-seed funding led by Seedcamp.
This article tracks the history of Gulf Investors backing some of the most defining deep tech companies coming out of Central and Eastern Europe in the past 5 years. These scaleups operate cargo drones, robotaxi ecosystems, voice AI, hypercar manufacturing, clean energy, and longevity biotech.
At Croatia's Nuqleus Liftoff, EIB and EIC officials outlined a strategic push into deep tech. Backed by new capital to bridge early-stage funding gaps, the focus is on utilizing scientific excellence to drive industrial scale. Can the region help Europe build a deep tech moat?
At Techsylvania in Cluj-Napoca, the CEO of SPARK, Sharjah's Research, Technology and Innovation park, made the case for partnership over competition, explained the role of government vision for attracting world-class talent, and was candid about what European founders get wrong about the Gulf.
Deep tech investor Constructor Capital co-led the round alongside Greencode Ventures and XISTA Science Ventures to back a startup that compresses AI models by up to 80%, cutting inference costs for companies deploying AI at scale.
“When researchers come to us, it doesn’t start with a negotiation,” Viktor Olsson of KTH Innovation explains. Here’s how Sweden’s founder-friendly university model is creating a deep tech powerhouse and what CEE can learn from it.
Warsaw-based Microamp has secured €6.5 million from the European Innovation Council to develop Any-G, a software-defined wireless platform engineered to support 5G, 6G and future network standards from a single architecture, without replacing physical infrastructure.
Look up to the sky — we’re a miracle living on one of the millions of other pebbles in the universe. Since forever, it has been the destiny of humankind to explore the frontier – and today’s frontier is space. After millennia of civilization, we finally boosted out of Earth’...
What if your startup’s next major milestone didn’t require raising another round, but signing your first serious client? Across the world, founders are often trained to think in fundraising cycles. From pre-seed to seed to Series A, everything is framed around equity capital. But in today’s...
