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The definitive index of ambitious hardware startups

Breakout ventures at the frontiers of energy, compute, AI, transport, robotics, space, defence, agriculture, biotech and health

The list

78 startups

Germany

Akhetonics

The world's first all-optical general-purpose processor.

Computing

France

Alice & Bob🤑

Fault-tolerant quantum computing built on cat qubits.

Computing

Hungary

Allonic🤑

Assembly-free manufacturing of human-like robotic bodies via 3D tissue braiding.

Robotics

United Kingdom

Apoha🤑

Teaching machines to understand matter

AI

Estonia

Ark Robotics

A new medium for human-machine collaboration.

Robotics

Italy

Arsenale Bioyards🤑

Making precision fermentation economically viable at industrial scale by building an end to end platform.

Biomanufacturing

Germany

Arx Robotics

Autonomous mobile robotics.

Robotics

Germany

Black Semiconductor

Graphene-based integrated photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity.

Computing

Sweden

Blykalla🤑

Small modular lead-cooled reactors to deliver clean, safe and scalable baseload energy.

Energy

Germany

C1

Ultra-efficient catalysis to mass-produce cheap e-methanol for shipping and the chemical industry.

Energy

Sweden

Candela

Hydrofoiling electric boats and ferries

Transport

Poland

Clone Robotics

Musculoskeletal, intelligent androids to solve all the common problems of daily life.

Robotics

Denmark

Copenhagen Atomics

Mass-manufacturing thorium reactors.

Energy

Switzerland

Cradle🤑

Building on the latest technological breakthroughs in AI, Cradle helps scientists decode and rewrite biology to unlock new food sources, materials, and therapeutics.

AI

United Kingdom

CuspAI🤑

Pioneering breakthrough materials to accelerate human progress.

Germany

Cylib

Next-gen battery recycling, efficiently recovering lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, and manganese.

Resources

Greece

Delian

Autonomous systems for defence.

Defence

United States

Dipole Labs🤑

Building the photonic hardware that powers the next generation of AI and quantum infrastructure, engineered to move past the physical limits of silicon.

Computing

United Kingdom

Dronamics

Fully electric cargo drones.

Aerospace

Netherlands

Eatch

Robotic kitchen platform that cooks meals at scale for production kitchens.

Robotics

Sweden

Einride

Intelligent road freight.

Transport

Netherlands

Euclyd

Ultra-efficient AI inference chips built on a dataflow-SIMD architecture.

Computing

Netherlands

Farmless🤑

Natural proteins via land-independent fermentation.

Food & agri

Switzerland

Flexion

Building the autonomy stack for humanoid robots.

Robotics

Germany

Formo🤑

Fermented dairy.

Food & agri

France

Gourmey

Cultivated meat, starting with foie gras.

Food & agri

Germany

Hades Mining

Cheap, deep laser-based rock drilling using vaporisation to access geothermal power and critical raw materials in Europe.

Resources

France

Harmattan AI

Autonomous, scalable, attritable systems for modern warfare.

Defence

Germany

Helsing

Software-defined defence.

Defence

United Kingdom

Humanoid🤑

Commercial humanoid robots for logistics and manufacturing.

Robotics

Germany

Hypersonica🤑

Sovereign hypersonic missiles.

Defence

Germany

Isar Aerospace

Launch service for small and medium satellites.

Aerospace

United Kingdom

Isembard🤑

High-precision manufacturing.

Manufacturing

United Kingdom

Kaikaku

Robot-powered restaurants — an integrated platform of food-prep robots and AI.

Robotics

Finland

Kelluu

World's largest fleet of autonomous, electric hydrogen-lift airships that allow satellite scale coverage with one-centimetre-per-pixel accuracy.

Aerospace

Norway

Lace Lithography🤑

Beyond-EUV chip lithography using a helium atom beam instead of light.

Computing

Finland

Makiina🤑

Modular, low cost hardware and software stack for physical intelligence, from actuators and power electronics to an AI robotics foundation model.

Robotics

Germany

Marvel Fusion

Laser-powered fusion.

Energy

Switzerland

Metafuels

Sustainable aviation fuel.

Energy

France

Mistral AI🤑

Frontier AI that you can trust.

AI

Netherlands

Monumental🤑

Automating on-site construction with robotics and software.

Robotics

Sweden

Neko Health🤑

Whole-body preventative health scanning hardware.

AI

Germany

Neura Robotics

Cognitive robots that can see, hear, feel and learn, as well as the software, AI and data infrastructure required to deploy them at scale.

Robotics

Denmark

NitroVolt

On-site green ammonia production for farms.

Energy

United Kingdom

Nothing

Consumer electronics — smartphones and audio with a design-led approach.

Manufacturing

United Kingdom

OLIX🤑

A next paradigm for frontier AI.

Computing

United Kingdom

Orbital Industries🤑

AI-designed materials and hardware for next-generation data centers.

Manufacturing

Croatia

Orqa

Fully in-house-manufactured FPV drone systems for professional and tactical use.

Aerospace

Netherlands

Paebbl🤑

Carbon capture through accelerated mineralisation.

Manufacturing

Switzerland

Pave Space

Orbital transfer vehicles that make the in space economy possible.

Aerospace

Germany

Phlair

Low-cost CO2 capture via hydrolyzers.

Energy

United Kingdom

Prosper

Tele-operated household robots.

Robotics

Germany

Proxima Fusion🤑

Fusion power with quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators.

Energy

France

Renaissance Fusion🤑

The most efficient, stable fusion stellarators on earth.

Energy

United Kingdom

Rivan Industries🤑

Synthetic methane.

Energy

Denmark

Saltfoss Energy

Molten salt power reactor designed for serial production on a floating platform to make nuclear cheap, fast and reliable.

Energy

Netherlands

Schematik

AI development platform that turns plain-English prompts into working Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi hardware.

Computing

Belgium

Sirona

Modular direct air capture for carbon removal.

Manufacturing

Finland

Solar Foods

Food out of thin air using fermentation.

Food & agri

United Kingdom

Space Solar

Solar from space.

Energy

Germany

Stark

European defence-tech company specialised in unmanned weapons systems across multiple domains

Defence

United States

Starship

Last-mile logistics with robots.

Robotics

Sweden

Stegra

Hydrogen-powered steel production.

Manufacturing

Switzerland

Stellar Alpina

Compact rotating detonation rocket engines for in-space mobility.

Aerospace

Switzerland

Stellaria

Fourth-generation fast-neutron molten salt reactors with liquid chloride-salt core that breeds 100% of its own fuel in-core, feeding on spent fuel from today's reactors.

Energy

Germany

Sunfire

Reliable, efficient electrolysers.

Energy

Slovenia

Sunrise Robotics

Simulation-trained dual-arm robot cells for high-mix factories.

Robotics

Sweden

Syre

Textile-to-textile recycled polyester at hyperscale.

Manufacturing

Germany

Telura🤑

10X cheaper ultradeep drilling for geothermal power using ultra high voltage electric impulses.

Energy

United Kingdom

Tendrils Compute🤑

Novel general-purpose computer architecture that scales to thousands of cores.

Computing

Germany

The Exploration Company🤑

Space vehicles for a collaborative future.

Aerospace

Netherlands

Thorizon

Molten-salt small modular reactors.

Energy

France

UMA🤑

General-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a deep understanding of the physical world.

Robotics

Germany

Vaeridion

Building the most energy efficient electric commercial aircraft.

Aerospace

Belgium

Vertical Compute

Ultra-dense, energy-efficient vertical memory architectures that slash the distance between data and processing.

Germany

Vesoma

Building Physical General Intelligence to give humanity a helping hand.

Robotics

the Netherlands

Vivici

Fermented functional proteins

Food & agri

Spain

Voltrac🤑

A first-principles redesign of the tractor as a modular, software-defined vehicle, a fully electric autonomous tractor platform — per-wheel motors, no conventional drivetrain, 70% fewer moving parts, swappable 200 kWh packs good for up to 20 hours.

Robotics