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Anna Heim

After a successful first edition, JEC Investor Day 2026 is now returning for its second year with expanded ambitions.

Lios Group, the Irish startup behind SoundBounce, was a winner of JEC Composites Startup Booster 2018, and has been making significant strides since taking home the award.

Tree Composites aims to accelerate the energy transition with innovative composite joints.

Perseus Materials has moved fast since its JEC Startup Booster win, landing its first VC round, doubling its team, and advancing critical customer negotiations—all while planning a major facility expansion.

Winning the JEC Startup Booster’s 2025 Sustainability Award transformed Strong by Form from a ‘promising startup’ into a serious player with industrial credibility.

After receiving more than 120 applications from 42 countries, the IMPACT Start-up Challenge shortlisted some great teams, all of which got a chance to present their projects at VivaTech. But among them, it also picked five winners who shared €50,000 in prizes.

Now in its sixth edition, the French Tech Next 40/120 program follows criteria that have evolved over the years to put less emphasis on paper valuations, and more on tangible revenue.

Here’s an overview of this year’s new entrants — 11 on the Next40 list, and 35 among the remaining 80.

Deep Tech Atelier put Latvian talent in the spotlight, and several teams won helpful prizes — sometimes more than one.

Concerns around revenue growth skyrocketed among European founders this year, the Slush’s annual Startup Struggle Survey found out.

The VDS Startup Competition, part of the international tech event organized by Startup Valencia, has officially opened its 2025 call, in collaboration with Sesamers.

Dealroom’s recent Green Computing White Paper argues that Europe is well positioned to combine DeepTech with climate impact.