We are still reminiscing about the Growth Forum in Paris, and this newsletter brings a slice of that energy back to your screen. Inside, you will find the aftermovie video, alongside recap articles of several insightful panels that took place on stage.
April has also been a strong month for the community, with members announcing fresh funding, new partnerships and key milestones.
Also in this issue:
Get to know EIC Scaling Club companies – Kraftblock and AMT Medical;
Learn more about the milestones our Club companies reached this month;
From Sustainability meetup to Investor day – see what events are not to be missed in the following months.
Happy reading,
The EIC Scaling Club team
Growth Forum aftermath
The Growth Forum in Paris – our fourth and final in-person gathering – was a milestone event marking two years of collaboration across Europe’s deep tech ecosystem. The Forum welcomed 300+ participants, bringing together EIC Scaling Club companies and investors alongside mentors, corporates and public decision-makers to focus on what matters most at scale: industrialisation, fundraising and strategic partnerships.
Press play on the aftermovie to revisit a day of pitching, debate and deal-making – from five high-level panels and 30+ speakers to 480+ one-to-one meetings designed to turn conversations into next steps.
EIC Scaling Club Members in the Spotlight
Kraftblock: The modular solution unlocking industrial decarbonisation
This German deep tech scale-up develops high-temperature thermal energy storage systems for industrial decarbonisation with a flexible, modular platform.
This Utrecht-based medical device scale-up develops a minimally invasive approach to coronary artery bypass grafting – one of the most performed and risk-laden procedures in cardiac surgery.
At the Growth Forum in Paris, the session “The Corporate Leader Perspective” landed on a shared diagnosis: Europe’s deep tech pipeline is strong, but adoption still lags.
The challenge is not inventing breakthroughs. It is turning them into solutions that business units can integrate, procure and scale inside complex organisations with real constraints, timelines and risk profiles.
Read more valuable insights from this panel by clicking the button below.
Four other panels of the Growth Forum explored several friction points – late-stage capital that doesn’t match ambition, procurement that’s hard to access, partnerships that stall in pilot mode, and fragmented rules that slow cross-border growth.
This recap pulls the threads together under one unifying theme: alignment over fragmentation. Read the full article and learn how scale-ups can connect the pieces for more efficient scaling.
EIB signs €30 million venture debt loan with PLD Space to support MIURA 5 development
PLD Space, a Spanish scale-up from our New Space group, has signed a €30 million venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB). This funding will support the final development stage of its MIURA 5 rocket, designed to deploy small satellites into orbit.
Agriodor raises €15 million to scale natural scent-based crop protection
Agriodor, a French agtech company from our Agri & Food Tech group, has announced a €15 million Series A financing round to accelerate the global deployment of its scent-based biocontrol technology.
QuiX Quantum hits a key milestone for fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing
This deep tech scale-up from the Netherlands and a member of our Next-Gen Computing group, has taken a major step towards practical, scalable quantum machines: “below-threshold” error mitigation demonstrated on a photonic quantum computer.
GScan bridges the gap between innovation and infrastructure safety
GScan’s Muon Flux Tomography (MFT) technology has officially transitioned from development and testing to real-world impact and industrial-scale breakthrough, following several successful deployments on in-service bridges across the UK, Estonia and the Netherlands.
Events
Roadshow: EIC Scaling Club at Investor Day
When? 10 June 2026
Where? Netherlands
Join a full-day event dedicated to networking with the most influential VCs and CVCs across Europe investing in deep tech. It includes a group of 350 startups and 300 investors, focusing on 1-to-1 meetings.
Roadshow: EIC Scaling Club at Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2026
When? 11 June 2026
Where? Netherlands
Europe’s flagship deep-tech gathering, uniting more than 3,000 global founders, industry leaders, investors, researchers, and ecosystem players each year.
As part of the EIC Scaling Club programme, up to 20 scaleups from 5 climate-related fields will have the opportunity to pitch and meet with top-tier actors of the sustainability ecosystem.
