The Chips Venture Forum 2025, an initiative of aCCCess<\/b><\/a>, organized by Blumorpho<\/b> in cooperation with the EIC – European Innovation Council and the European Commission, demonstrated Europe’s ambition to strengthen the semiconductor value chain – from R&D to manufacturing and industrial scaling.<\/p>\n As Pierre Chastanet<\/b>, Head of Unit – Microelectronics and Photonics Industry at the European Commission and DG Connect, emphasized in his opening speech, the Chips Venture Forum 2025 brought together the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me<\/i> of Europe’s most innovative semiconductor companies for the final pitching session, which took place on 18. <\/p>\n With more than 165 participants, the Forum demonstrated the growing momentum behind the European Chips Act<\/b> and Europe’s strategy to consolidate technological sovereignty and competitiveness in advanced microelectronics.<\/p>\n This year’s Forum showcased 18 of the most promising European semiconductor companies, carefully selected from 87 high-quality applications. They represent a broad spectrum of technologies, including advanced materials, chip architectures, photonics, sensing, green manufacturing and AI-driven microelectronics – a testament to the depth and diversity of the European innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n The selected companies:<\/p>\n The forum benefited from a high caliber panel of investors and business leaders representing major semiconductor and technology funds, ensuring a strong focus on market needs, industrial strategies and innovation potential:<\/p>\n Anne Lebreton-Wolf – ALW Finance & Innovation After more than 180 digital meetings since September, 126 meetings between investors and selected start-ups took place on the day of the event.ups took place. This positions the Forum as the leading European platform for semiconductor investment, business development and deep tech scale-up opportunities.<\/p>\n The Forum concluded with the Chips Venture Forum 2025 Award Ceremony<\/b>, which recognizes companies shaping Europe’s semiconductor future.<\/p>\n This year’s winner is Vertical Compute<\/b>, represented by Sylvain Dubois. The company develops breakthrough next-generation in-memory computing architectures that combine logic and MRAM to overcome the data compute bottleneck and enable ultra-efficient AI and edge processing. Vertical Compute has been celebrated for its outstanding innovation and potential to shape Europe’s semiconductor landscape.<\/p>\n In addition, the jury presented special awards to start-ups that excel in strategically important areas:<\/p>\n These awards highlight breakthrough technologies that drive energy efficiency, sustainable semiconductor materials and next-generation computing architectures – key elements of the European strategy under the Chips Act.<\/p>\n The Chips Venture Forum 2025 confirms the crucial role of aCCCess, Competence Centers and coordinated European initiatives in accelerating semiconductor innovation, building industrial capacity and fostering a robust and competitive ecosystem.<\/p>\n _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n About aCCCess:<\/b> Contact aCCCess coordinator:<\/b> hamelin@blumorpho.com<\/a> <\/p>\n _ _ _ _<\/p>\n About Blumorpho:<\/b> Positioned at the intersection of market opportunity, innovation and funding, Blumorpho provides strategic advice and develops innovation programs to create value, scale solutions and structure investment-ready opportunities with strategic and financial stakeholders.<\/p>\n Contact Press Blumorpho:<\/b> uguen@blumorpho.com<\/a> & radia@blumorpho.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Munich, November 18, 2025 – Europe is driving semiconductor innovation forward: 18 top start-ups presented their technologies at the Chips Venture Forum 2025 in Munich, accompanied by over 126 investor meetings. The winner of the award is Vertical Compute with its revolutionary in-memory computing architecture for energy-efficient AI applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4809],"tags":[4783,1989,1987],"class_list":["post-531337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-semiconductors","tag-startups","tag-technological-sovereignty"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPresenting the leading European semiconductor start-ups<\/h3>\n
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European deep-tech investors and industry leaders evaluate semiconductor start-ups<\/h3>\n
Susanne Schorsch – Amadeus Capital Partners
Victor Acinas – Applied Materials
Helmut Gassel – Ardian (Silian Partner)
Christophe Frey – Arm
Paul Murray – Atlantic Bridge
Antoine Amade – Entegris
Alejandro Horstmann – ETF Partners
Jorg Nowack – Hitachi
Michael Engelmann – imec.xpand
Jos\u00e9 Miguel Pascual Ruiz – Indra
Juan Carlos Mart\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez – Indra
Pierre Garnier – Jolt Capital
Bedwyr Humphreys – Lam Capital
Sarah Luppino – M Ventures
Christian Reitberger – Matterwave
Alan Bulian – Mountain X
Timo Tenhovuori – Nokia
Fabian Faul – NXP Semiconductors
Hind Beaujon – Pfeiffer Vacuum
Pieter Klinkert – Photon Ventures
Rapha\u00ebl Bodin – Quantonation
Hans Brouwer – Riverside Investments
Giovanni Bologna – Santander
Katharina Westrich – Siemens
Olav Carlsen – SPRIND
David Hurley – TEL Venture Capital
Christian Claussen – Ventech<\/p>\nChips Venture Forum 2025 Awards: Honoring Europe’s semiconductor innovation leaders<\/h3>\n
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Building a competitive and sustainable European semiconductor ecosystem<\/h3>\n
The aCCCess project brings together 7 project partners and 10 associated partners, including Chips Competence Centers, Pilot Lines and the Design Platform, to build the European Network of Chips Competence Centers (ENCCC). By supporting the establishment of CCCs, harmonizing processes and fostering cross-border collaboration, it strengthens the European semiconductor value chain and innovation power.<\/p>\n
Blumorpho is a boutique innovation strategy and operating partner. We leverage our ecosystem platform to scale impactful solutions.<\/p>\n