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Backed by €76M in EU Chips Act funding, TUM spinout QuantumDiamonds is building high-throughput inspection for chip fabs across three continents.

First Momentum backed QuantumDiamonds early in 2023. Three years later, the Munich company works with the world's largest chip companies and is building a €152M production facility for quantum-based chip inspection.

Europe's spinoff ecosystem is producing successful spinouts, but the IP processes and growth capital to scale them are missing. At the Spinoff Summit 2026, we sat down with academia, government, and philanthropy to figure out why and what fixes it.

Geothermie funktioniert nur, wenn Bohren bezahlbar wird. Telura bringt eine Elektroimpuls-Technologie auf den Markt, die dies ermöglicht, und überzeugt damit die WirtschaftsWoche und Investor Fabian Heilemann.

Backed by $2.6M in pre-seed funding and live as of today, SuperPlane gives engineers and AI agents a shared, guardrailed environment to run production infrastructure together.

Over the past decade, solar has grown from a niche energy source to the backbone of the global energy transition. Here's the science and economics behind the fastest buildout in energy history.

On the State Change podcast, Karavela co-founder Alexis Thual explains how AI models trained on MRI data could decode neural activity and map how thoughts arise.

Carbon Herald reports portfolio company Brineworks has launched a direct-air-capture demo plant in Amsterdam, targeting CO2 capture below $100 per tonne while co-producing green hydrogen for e-fuels.