The EIC Scaling Club Podcast on European Deep Tech

Deep tech company Soter Analytics was started in 2016 to reduce workplace ergonomic injuries in warehouses and factories, drive-down claims costs, boost productivity and improve worker retention using smart safety wearables and AI-driven technologies. At the most recent OTB Ventures Summit, we caught up with the company's CEO, Matthew Hart , who explained what the company is building - and why it...

Managed by the European Investment Fund , the European Tech Champions Initiative ( ETCI ) has allocated nearly €1 billion to four strategic funds in its first year, including Atomico and Keensight Capital, in an effort to propel forward the EU tech sector with potential leverage of up to €6 billion. The ETCI fund-of-funds was inaugurated in February 2023 with an initial pledge of €3.75 billion fro...

France-based deep tech company Cailabs is a global leader when it comes to designing, manufacturing and selling specialised photonics solutions for free-space transmission, industrial lasers, local area networks and telecommunications, among other use cases. An innovator in the world of 'complex light shaping', the high tech scale-up recently closed a €26 million financing round with the European...

We sat down with Jan Goetz , a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM Quantum Computers , building next-generation quantum computers right here in Europe. Goetz, who also served as an EIC Board Member in the past and recently - and graciously - accepted to become an EIC Scaling Club Council member , was kind enough to take time out of his day at the DLD Conference in Munich. The affable entr...

In recent times, the issue of space traffic has become a priority for the European Space Agency because of the threat posed by the increasing amount of debris orbiting the Earth. Decommissioned or abandoned satellites, parts of rocket boosters and solar panels, and even simple nuts and bolts are orbiting hundreds of kilometres above our planet and moving at speeds of up to 28,000 kilometres per ho...

We interviewed Rafal Modrzewski, co-founder and CEO of ICEYE, a Finland-based micro-satellite manufacturer, at the recent OTB Ventures Summit in Poland. Founded in 2014 and backed by the EIC along the way, ICEYE essentially provides persistent monitoring capabilities for any location on earth (even at night and when it's cloudy). Owning the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite...

We caught up with Adam Niewinski , a partner at OTB Ventures , a Poland-based investment firm that backs deep tech startups and scale-ups from across Europe, particularly in the CEE region. The VC firm is investing primarily in four sectors, namely AI and automation, space tech, fintech infrastructure and cybersecurity. Check out our interview to learn more about OTB's investments thesis, the stat...

The EIC Scaling Club team had a great chat with Ana Maiques, co-founder and CEO of Neuroelectrics a Barcelona-based deep tech company that produces devices to stimulate and treat the brain.  Founded in 2011, it is a spin-off of Starlab Neuroscience Research which was established in 2000. Ana was nominated by IESE as one of the most influential entrepreneurs under 40 in Spain in 2010. She received...

The EIC Scaling Club touched base with Svilen Rangelov, co-founder and chief executive officer of Bulgarian deep tech company Dronamics, which is building the world's first cargo drone airline. In 2022, Dronamics was awarded a €2.5 million grant by the European Commission under the EIC Accelerator program, and secured a license to operate in Europe. The deep tech scale-up went on to raise $40 mill...