EVF 2026 Startup Showcase

21 hand-picked startups. Selected through a dedicated evaluation process led by our investment team, with input from participating investors.

 

The EVF 2027 startup line-up will be announced closer to the event.

What if the real limit on AI isn't compute, but heat? Apheros, an ETH Zürich spin-off, builds metal foam cold plates with up to 1000x more surface area than conventional designs, cooling the most powerful chips and scaling with ease.
 

BeFC delivers the world’s first metal-free & printed energy source for microelectronics. In a world of devices & data, we enable digitalisation without the downsides of battery disposal; breaking the paradigm by producing electricity by converting sugar & air using enzymes. 

BioJoule is building Europe's leading tech-powered collection network for organic waste by uniting our own BONFRY fleet with 3PL partners under one platform. 

We turn fragmented used cooking oil supply into a valuable, steady feedstock stream for sustainable fuel and chemicals producers.

Collo develops an Industrial AI platform for liquid food and beverage production, combining proprietary inline sensing and AI-driven analytics to eliminate product, water, and energy losses in real time. Its technology helps manufacturers optimize production, improve quality, and accelerate the transition to Zero-Loss Factories.

Converge is building the AI platform for concrete construction. Used on thousands of jobsites globally, it helps the world’s leading contractors digitise workflows, understand material behaviour with smart sensors, and optimise concrete with AI.
 

GA Drilling commercializes NexTitan, a deep-drilling platform cutting well costs by up to 50%, unlocking geothermal at scale. Field-proven in Norway with contracts secured, it is the enabling technology layer for the energy transition: from oil & gas today to geothermal next.

Globeholder AI is the reasoning layer for the physical world. Thinking Lab compresses energy, nuclear, and data-center investment decisions from months of consultant studies into hours of auditable, evidence-bound analysis - beyond-human reasoning, decision-grade.  

Holyvolt is a materials discovery company, pairing AI with an automated high-throughput platform to invent breakthrough battery materials. First to market: DRX, a cathode family built to replace today's leading chemistries: high energy density, low cost, sourced in the West

Korial is an enterprise AI platform for autonomous industrial operations, unifying robots, drones, sensors, and industrial data into a single operating layer. It enables autonomous inspections, improves safety and reliability, and helps industrial companies reduce downtime, operating costs, and manual work.

MANUS is the market leader in high-precision hand-tracking technology that transforms human dexterity into high-fidelity training data for physical AI. As the official data glove for NVIDIA Isaac Teleop, MANUS is trusted by world's leading humanoid robotics companies and deployed by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide.
 

Membion develops energy-efficient membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for wastewater treatment, using JetSplash® pulsed aeration and seagrass-inspired membrane design to reduce energy consumption by up to 90%.
 

Naturbeads is building the next-generation of sustainable particle technologies, replacing microplastics and enabling bio-based solutions for consumer, industrial and life science applications. Green particles, endless possibilities. 
 

Qualus is an industrial climate technology company transforming leather manufacturing with patented retrofit solutions that reduce water, chemicals, effluent, energy and CO₂ while increasing profitability through a scalable recurring revenue model. 

Qurrent is the independent AI-power and optimization layer for batteries and renewables. One integration connects any asset to energy markets through utilities. 750+ MW and 350 sites live across the Nordics, now beginning our European expansion.

Renaissance Fusion is building the industrial foundation for fusion energy by vertically integrating critical technologies, beginning with high-temperature superconductors (HTS). By supplying the fusion, energy, and AI infrastructure markets today while developing a simplified stellarator, we are enabling the fusion industry and accelerating the path to clean, abundant energy.

ReVentas develops dissolution-based plastic recycling technology that removes all contaminants including colors and odors from polyethylene and polypropylene waste, producing virgin-like polymers with 80% lower carbon emissions than virgin production.
 

Robotec.ai is a deep-tech company and global leader in robotics simulation, Digital Twins, and Physical AI. Our mission is to accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of autonomous systems and Physical AI through high-fidelity simulation platforms.

Computing is essential to our civilization. Signaloid provides a compute platform for uses ranging from pharma research, to chip design, and robotics. Our technology lets you run today’s software orders of magnitude more efficiently, and lets you run tomorrow’s software, today.

Sparxell makes high-performance colour from plant cellulose. Spun out of the University of Cambridge, its patented platform engineers an abundant, low-cost feedstock sourceable from waste into drop-in replacements for the synthetic dyes, metals and minerals that dominate the $50B+ global colourants market.

WASE is a global leader in biogas and biomethane, helping customers boost production by 30%. We treat challenging waste streams to maximise treatment through our patented Electro-Methanogenic Reactor. We provide best in class uptime and performance using our WASE Intelligence AI platform that is powered by our proprietary biosensing platform providing reliable and optimal operation.