Munich remains a growing hub for climate and deep tech

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.