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PFR Ventures
PFR Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju), wholly owned by the Polish state, established in 2014 and based in Warsaw. The firm operates as the largest fund-of-funds manager in the Central and Eastern Europe region, managing over PLN 3 billion in assets across 80+ private VC funds that have collectively supported more than 900 startup investments. PFR Ventures co-invests alongside private LPs to leverage EU structural funds and catalyse private capital into the Polish venture ecosystem, backing early-stage through growth-stage funds in sectors including deep tech, SaaS, fintech, and life sciences. Its Innovate Poland programme launched in November 2025 with at least PLN 4 billion earmarked for the next investment cycle.
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Pharmacelera
Pharmacelera is a Barcelona-based computational drug discovery company headquartered at the Parc Cientific de Barcelona, combining computer-aided drug design, AI and machine learning, and high-performance computing to explore larger and more diverse chemical space. Its software suite, including PharmScreen, exaScreen, and PharmQSAR, helps pharma and biotech companies with target identification, hit identification, hit-to-lead, and lead optimization by finding novel hits and improving ligand binding properties. Clients referenced on its site include Sanifit Laboratoris and Wren Therapeutics.
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PhysicsX
PhysicsX applies machine learning and generative AI to advanced engineering simulation across aerospace, automotive, and energy systems. The platform accelerates design loops by reducing simulation time for fluid, thermal, and structural modeling, helping industrial teams move from concept to validation faster.
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Phytoform
Phytoform (Phytoform Labs) is a UK agritech company based in Harpenden, in the Greater London commuter area, using AI and genome editing to develop novel, nature-identical crop traits aimed at making agriculture more resilient and sustainable. It partners with companies to translate scientific discoveries into real-world crop improvements. Phytoform was founded by Dr Will Pelton and Dr Nicolas Kral.
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Pierre Limouzin
Pierre Limouzin leads venture capital investment activities for the EIC Fund at the European Investment Bank (EIB), focusing on breakthrough and deep tech companies across Europe including in the space sector. The EIC Fund is the equity arm of the European Innovation Council, deploying equity and quasi-equity investments into high-potential European startups and scale-ups commercializing frontier technologies. His role makes him a key figure in the European public venture ecosystem and a significant source of institutional capital for space entrepreneurship and new space ventures.
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Pioneers Festival 2026
Deep-tech and innovation conference at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, bringing together 2,500+ founders, investors, and corporate innovators. Known for its startup pitch competition, investor matchmaking, and focus on frontier technologies.
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Piotr Romanowski
Business Angel of the Year 2021 and former PwC partner, Piotr combines corporate finance expertise with deep-technology investing. He focuses on high-potential international projects, especially biotech and complex fintech products. His portfolio includes early-stage investments in biotechnology initiatives and specialized fintech tooling.
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PLD Space
Elche-based private launch company developing the Miura family of reusable rockets. Miura 1 completed Spain's first private suborbital rocket flight in October 2023, making PLD Space the first European private company to successfully fly a rocket. Miura 5, a small orbital launcher, targets commercial payloads for the global new-space market.
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Portugal Ventures
Portugal Ventures is Portugal's principal state-backed early-stage venture firm, established in 2012 through the merger of Inovcapital, AICEP Capital Global Ventures and Turismo Capital. Headquartered in Porto with a Lisbon office, it operates within the Banco Português de Fomento group and manages roughly €288M across 16+ funds. Its mandate is to stimulate Portuguese entrepreneurship with risk capital at pre-seed, seed and Series A, writing tickets of €50K–€1.5M across digital and technology, industry, healthcare and tourism. Since inception it has deployed over €230M into 256+ companies. Its portfolio has produced unicorns including BitSight (cybersecurity), Fever (live entertainment, exited 2026 at 15x) and Glovo, alongside exits in OutSystems and Farfetch (NYSE IPO, 2018). Other notable holdings include Feedzai, Aptoide, Codacy, JScrambler and Sword Health. New leadership for the 2025–2027 term is led by CEO Marco Neves.
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Practica Capital
Practica Capital is the most established venture capital firm in the Baltics, founded in Vilnius in 2011 and managing four funds totalling over €130 million in assets under management. The firm invests at pre-seed, seed, and selected Series A stages in marketplace, SaaS, and deep/industrial tech startups originating from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and now has partners on the ground in all three Baltic capitals. Its portfolio of 70+ companies includes CGTrader, TransferGo, PVcase, Interactio, Eneba, and Ovoko, with one IPO and six acquisitions to date. The €80 million third fund, closed in February 2024, is the largest seed fund ever raised in the Baltic region.
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Primo Ventures
Primo Ventures (operating entity: Primomiglio SGR), led by chairman Gianluca Dettori and founded in 2016, is a Milan-based VC managing approximately €530 million in assets across digital and space-focused funds. It launched the first Italian venture capital fund dedicated to space technologies — Primo Space Fund (target €80 million, first close €58 million) — in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Fondazione E. Amaldi, backing deep-space logistics, propulsion, and AI for spacecraft. Portfolio investments include D-Orbit (space logistics, Series C co-lead) and AIKO (AI for autonomous spacecraft operations). Beyond space, its digital fund invests in B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, and fintech at seed and early-growth stages.
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Provizio
Develops AI radar-perception software (Software Defined Radar, 5D Perception) for automotive safety and autonomous driving, offering a LiDAR-free ADAS alternative plus off-road, smart-city and drone-detection uses. Founded 2019.
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Proxima Fusion
Proxima Fusion is a deep-tech fusion energy company spun out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in 2023. It is developing quasi-isodynamic stellarator systems designed for stable, commercial fusion power generation and is targeting a demonstrator pathway toward net-energy performance in the next decade.
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PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026
Second edition of the joint PyData and PyCon conference at the American University of Armenia, organized with NumFOCUS and PyData Global as partners. Two-day program brings together engineers, researchers, and founders across data science, machine learning, AI, and the broader Python ecosystem.
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Q.ANT
Q.ANT is a Stuttgart-based deep-tech company developing photonic processors that compute natively with light as a scalable alternative to transistor-based chips. Its Native Processing Server (NPS) is positioned as the first commercial photonic processor, targeting AI and HPC data center workloads with up to 30x higher energy efficiency and 50x faster computation than conventional CMOS technology. Q.ANT operates its own photonic chip pilot line, built on thin-film lithium niobate material, in collaboration with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS). The company was founded by CEO Michael Foertsch in 2018.
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QuantrolOx
QuantrolOx is a quantum computing software startup headquartered in Espoo, Finland, with additional offices in Oxford, Delft, and Bengaluru. The company develops Quantum EDGE, an automation platform that tunes and optimises superconducting quantum computers, reducing characterisation times from days to seconds and enabling a single expert to manage multiple quantum systems simultaneously. QuantrolOx is a sponsor of Finnish Quantum Days 2026.
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Quantum Brilliance
Quantum Brilliance is a diamond-based quantum computing company building room-temperature, deployable quantum computing and sensing hardware, with a registered office in Stuttgart, Germany (as well as an R&D site in Freiburg) alongside its Australian and Japanese offices. Its technology targets both computing and sensing applications, including a Honeywell Aerospace-led consortium project to develop a compact quantum space magnetometer for studying Earth's magnetic field. The company is legally Quantum Brilliance Pty Ltd.
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Rafel Jorda Siquier
Rafel Jorda Siquier is the CEO of Open Cosmos, a UK-based space startup founded in 2015 that designs, builds, and operates small satellites and provides end-to-end mission services for governments and commercial customers. Under his leadership, Open Cosmos has grown into a notable player in the New Space sector, securing contracts with the European Space Agency and other institutional clients across Europe and beyond. Jorda Siquier is a recognized figure in the European commercial space ecosystem and advocates for democratizing access to space through low-cost, rapidly delivered satellite solutions.
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RAISE Summit 2026
A large-scale AI leadership summit at the Carrousel du Louvre with 9,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers, and 2,000+ companies, centred on enterprise AI adoption and ROI. Useful for AI and SaaS founders targeting enterprise buyers and seeking visibility with corporate innovation teams and investors.
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RAISE Summit 2027
RAISE Summit 2027 runs 6-8 July at the Palais des Congres in Paris, now part of Hyve alongside MACHINA Summit and Signal Week. Billed as the world's leading AI summit, RAISE brings together AI leaders, C-suite executives, startups, investors and policymakers, with the 2026 edition drawing 9,000+ attendees and a special address from French President Emmanuel Macron.
