We're back from the Ambition Forum in Riga, and it was a success. Great energy, valuable talks, and inspiring chats with peers – thanks for being a part of it!
More in this issue:
Join the Online Comms Academy by EIC Scaling Club on 1 October 2025; hear practical tips and ask your PR questions to our special guests – hands-on tech journalists!
Get to know our members – Elyptha, Fresh Inset, ROSI, and Sensius.
Roadshow events and open calls not to miss.
And more!
Happy reading,
The EIC Scaling Club team
Ambition Forum: A Recap
Here's how the Ambition Forum looks in numbers:
1 day
170 attendees
276 business meetings
8 value-adding workshops
countless informal chats that can result in new business opportunities in the future!
We can't wait to see you at the next – and our last – club event. Information to follow, so stay tuned!
EIC Scaling Club’s members have collectively raised over €1.2 billion in funding within the scope of the programme. The most funded sectors were Next-Gen Computing, Renewable Energies, and Smart Mobility. There's more – see the full announcement!
Visibility and brand recognition are crucial for your company's long-term success – it can help you build industry recognition, attract investors, new leads, and talent.
Fact:
82% of investors agree that familiarity with a brand’s name significantly influences their investment decisions.
Join the Online Comms Academy to hear PR and media relations lessons and tips from PR practitioners and journalists covering tech.
Date: 1 October 2025, 2 PM CET Place: Online Duration: 60 minutes
Special guests:
Adam Bluestain, Journalist writing for FastCompany, Bloomberg, Fortune, NY Times, and more
Fresh Inset: Fighting food waste with Vidre+ active packaging
Keep fruits, vegetables, and plants fresh longer? Polish company Fresh Inset’sVidre+ does exactly that—extending shelf life by days to months, cutting food waste, and helping businesses, consumers, and the planet.
French company ROSI transforms waste flows of the photovoltaic industry into new sources of high-value materials. In June 2023, the scale-up inaugurated the world’s first industrial recycling line, ROSI Alpes.
Sensius: Building the fourth pillar of cancer treatment
Sensius is a Dutch scale-up focused on establishing thermotherapy as a core component of cancer treatment. The company’s mission is to enhance outcomes for patients with head and neck cancers while balancing treatment efficacy with quality of life.
Elypta: Pioneering metabolism-based liquid biopsy for earlier cancer detection
Elypta is a Swedish deep tech scale-up developing groundbreaking metabolism-based liquid biopsy solutions for early cancer detection – they’re harnessing the unique metabolic signatures of tumors to identify cancer at its earliest stages.
Cailabs secures €57M to scale up industrial production and global presence
Cailabs, a global leader in advanced photonics and a member of our New Space group, has announced that it has secured €57 million in new financing to accelerate its industrial and international expansion.
Sympower, Europe’s leading independent grid flexibility services provider, has secured €19 million in funding from PGGM, one of Europe’s largest pension investors.
This is a unique opportunity for EIC Scaling Club companies to connect with some of the most influential investors and corporates in the HealthTech space.
European Defence Week offers a unique opportunity to connect with key stakeholders, matchmake with fellow investors, and explore the future of defence innovation.
Part of the EIC Scaling Club Roadshow, this exclusive forum will help you advance your investments, innovation strategies, and technology outlook in Integrated Photonics and Next-Generation Communications.
The EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS), powered by the European Defence Fund, supports the growth of a vibrant European defence innovation ecosystem.
Explore key opportunities:
EUDIS Matchmaking
It connects innovative companies, investors, defence corporates, and end-users through tailored support and exclusive networking events such asEuropean Defence Week (29 October) and FiBAN DECOI (18 November).
The accelerator provides an eight-month programme for 20 selected start-ups and scale-ups, offering expert coaching, bootcamps, and a €65,000 seed-financing voucher. Its next call for applications is planned for October–November 2025.
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