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Stargate Hydrogen
Deep-tech firm manufacturing precious-metal-free alkaline electrolyser stacks (0.5-5 MW) and containerised green-hydrogen systems for refineries, steel and ammonia. Opened a Tallinn factory in 2025; backed by Repsol.
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START Summit 2026
Student-run summit at Olma Messen with 7,000+ attendees, 1,000+ investors, and 1,500+ startups. Highlights include the START Summiteer pitch competition and high-volume investor-founder matchmaking.
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START Summit 2027
START Summit returns to St. Gallen 18-19 March 2027, featuring 120+ speakers across five tracks including startup pitches, investor programming and a FoodFestival. The 2026 edition hosted speakers such as Vinted co-founder Milda Mitkute and Helsing CTO Robert Fink, alongside dozens of early-stage startup elevator pitches.
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Startup Braga
Innovation hub and accelerator supported by Microsoft, nurturing deep-tech startups in biotech, nanotech, and digital sectors. Provides acceleration, access to University of Minho labs, and corporate partners; backed 120+ companies. Scope: Regional (Northern Portugal).
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sTARTUp Day 2026
Startup festival at the University of Tartu Sports Hall with 3,500+ attendees, 350+ investors, and 400+ startups. Includes the sTARTUp Pitching competition (often with a EUR 300k+ syndication pool) and Brella-powered 1:1 matchmaking.
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sTARTUp Day 2027
sTARTUp Day is Estonia's leading startup-minded business festival, bringing over 3,000 founders, investors and ecosystem players to Tartu for three days, 17-19 August 2027. The event includes a matchmaking app, multiple stages, a demo area and investor and executive programmes. Ticket prices start from around EUR 109.
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Startup Goteborg / GU Incubator
GU Ventures is the incubator and holding company of the University of Gothenburg and one of Sweden's longest-running university incubators. It helps researchers and entrepreneurs commercialise ideas from the university, providing seed funding, business-development support and workspace to build science- and technology-based startups.
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Startup Nights 2026
The biggest startup event in Switzerland, returning to Eulachhallen Winterthur and joining the Swiss Startup Association umbrella in 2026. Targets ~9,500 changemakers across health tech, sustainability and deep tech with pitches, exhibitions and ecosystem networking.
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Steady Energy
Steady Energy develops the LDR-50, a simplified small modular reactor (SMR) delivering 50 MW of thermal output for zero-carbon district heating. Founded in 2023 as a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the company raised €32 million and in February 2026 poured first concrete for a full-scale non-nuclear pilot plant inside Helsinki's former Salmisaari coal power station. Fortum and Finnish energy utility Helen are strategic partners. Steady Energy is also expanding to Sweden, targeting district heating decarbonisation across the Nordic region.
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STEP Ri – Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka
STEP Ri is a science and technology park established in 2008 by the University of Rijeka, together with the City of Rijeka and Primorje–Gorski Kotar County. It bridges academia and industry by providing business advisory, entrepreneurship training, office space, and access to the Enterprise Europe Network. The park supports university spin-offs and knowledge-based startups from concept to market.
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Stephan Morais
Managing General Partner and co-founder of Indico Capital Partners, Portugal's leading independent venture firm. Formerly an executive at Caixa Capital, he has built Indico into a >€244M multi-fund platform and is one of Southern Europe's most prominent early-stage investors, backing companies such as Sword Health and Anchorage Digital.
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Sting
Sting (Stockholm Innovation & Growth) is Sweden’s leading startup accelerator and incubator, founded in 2002 and based in Stockholm. Over two decades, Sting has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most successful support programs for high-tech startups. Each year, ~25 startups participate in Sting’s programs, which are tailored to ICT, sustainability, and deep tech ventures. Sting offers two main tracks: the Accelerate program (a shorter, intensive accelerator with investment) and the Incubate program (a longer incubation with office space and coaching). Startups benefit from SEK 400,000 (≈€35,000) in pre-seed investment via Sting’s Propel Capital angel fund, as well as hands-on mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs. Sting is notable for its extensive network in the Nordics – participants get access to 80+ industry mentors and introductions to a broad investor pool in Sweden and internationally. The results speak volumes: Sting has supported 270+ startups since inception, with a survival rate over 70% and multiple high-profile alumni. Success stories include Yubico (security keys unicorn), Sellpy (fashion recommerce, acquired by H&M), and ClimateView (climate planning SaaS). In addition to funding and coaching, Sting offers free office space at A House in Stockholm, product development labs, and perks from partners. The program emphasizes key performance indicators (KPIs) and growth milestones – Sting aims to help companies reach first customers, significant revenues, or Series A readiness within 6–18 months. Beyond individual companies, Sting has played a crucial role in Stockholm’s ecosystem: it co-founded SUP46 (Start-Up People of Sweden) co-working space and hosts Sweden’s annual Startup Demo Day. Sting alumni have collectively raised over €600 million. With the Swedish ecosystem maturing, Sting remains a cornerstone – providing new founders with structured support, an entrepreneurial community, and that all-important first investment to turbocharge their growth.
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Sting Demo Day 2026
Sting Demo Day is the flagship pitch event of Sting (Stockholm Innovation & Growth), one of Sweden's leading startup accelerators. Carefully selected high-potential founders from Sting's climate, health, AI, and deep-tech programs each deliver a 3-minute pitch of their vision and growth plans. The invite-only audience gathers 200+ handpicked investors and ecosystem allies, making it a prime fundraising and networking moment in the Stockholm ecosystem.
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Swave Photonics
Swave Photonics has developed the world's first true holographic display chip — the HXR spatial light modulator with sub-300 nm pixels — enabling AR smart glasses, heads-up displays and 3D video walls without waveguides or varifocal lenses. Spun out of imec in Leuven in 2022 by Theo Marescaux and Dmitri Choutov, the company closed a €27 M Series A in January 2025 co-led by imec.xpand and SFPIM Relaunch, followed by a €6 M Samsung Ventures-backed follow-on in June 2025, bringing total funding to over €43 M. The chip leverages CMOS manufacturing for mass-market cost structures, targeting OEMs in AR wearables and automotive HUDs.
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Swiss Innovation Forum 2026
Switzerland's national innovation conference in Basel, connecting Swiss corporates, ETH/EPFL spin-outs, deep-tech startups, and cantonal economic-development agencies. Content spans pharma innovation, precision manufacturing, quantum computing, and sustainable finance. 1,500+ attendees. Tickets CHF 300+.
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Swiss Robotics Day 2026
The national robotics gathering, organised by ETH Zurich's RobotX at the StageOne Convention Center, showcasing Swiss robotics research, spin-offs, and live demos. For a robotics or hardware founder it concentrates the Swiss robotics talent pool, lab spin-offs, and industrial partners into one day.
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Swiss Startup Days 2026
The nationwide Swiss deep-tech catalyst event at Kursaal Bern, bringing startups, investors, corporates, and enablers together for one high-density day of 1-to-1 matchmaking, pitch sessions, and a curated deep-tech newcomers cohort. The single best day to compress months of Swiss investor and corporate introductions into a few hours.
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Swiss Startup Days 2027
Swiss Startup Days' next edition is confirmed for 27 May 2027 at Kursaal Bern, described on-site as 'the Swiss deep-tech catalyst event'. The nationwide event brings startups, investors, corporates, and enablers together for a high-density day of 1-to-1 matchmaking and pitch sessions.
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Swisscom Ventures
Swisscom Ventures is the strategic corporate venture arm of Swisscom, Switzerland's largest telecom and ICT operator, and is one of the most active corporate venture investors in the Swiss ecosystem. Founded in 2007 and operating with offices in Bern, Zurich, and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies across cybersecurity, digital health, cloud infrastructure, AI, and network-adjacent deep tech, with particular interest in startups that can leverage Swisscom's distribution, data, or network assets. Portfolio companies have included Cato Networks, Mirakl, Scandit, Digital Asset, and Exeger. Swisscom Ventures pairs well with the traditional Swiss financial-VC bench by providing strategic commercial partnerships, regulatory navigation, and European telecom channel access alongside capital, which is particularly valuable for founders in regulated infrastructure categories.
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Sybilla Technologies
Sybilla Technologies is a Bydgoszcz-based space-tech company specialising in space situational awareness, space traffic management and orbital safety. It designs, builds and operates robotic optical observatories and the software that automates data acquisition, analysis and scheduling across sensor networks. Its space domain awareness data serves national space agencies in Poland, Italy and France, as well as the European Space Agency.
