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Impact Loop VC featured the story of a VC that couldn't find a geothermal company worth backing, so the firm built one: Telura, now backed by a $5M pre-seed round.

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.

ZuriQ's research on moving ions in three dimensions inside a Penning micro-trap appears in Science Advances, reinforcing its lead in 2D quantum chip architecture.

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.

Forbes highlights Quantum Diamonds' 152 million euro manufacturing facility in Munich, part of a wider wave of deep tech betting on the region's talent and infrastructure.

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.

tech.eu covers SuperPlane's $2.6M pre-seed round led by Credo Ventures and joined by First Momentum, backing an open-source control plane where engineers and AI agents run infrastructure together.