The European Fee has simply awarded prizes to 4 European startups and SMEs that are bringing to market promising improvements developed with EU analysis and innovation funding.

The awards had been introduced on the Innovation Radar Prize ceremony, attended by buyers and innovation leaders. Twelve EU-funded startups from throughout Europe competed in 3 prize classes.

The 2025 Innovation Radar Prize was the 11^th version of this long-standing celebration of EU progressive excellence. Organised by the European Fee and the Innovation Radar Bridge initiative, it happened within the Unicorn Manufacturing facility Lisboa, Portugal on the tenth of November 2025.

On the occasion, every of the twelve finalists – all SMEs, startups or spinoffs who had beforehand obtained analysis and innovation funding from the European Fee – delivered a pitch to a jury of buyers and entrepreneurs outlining their improvements and plans to scale them within the market.

Total Winner:

The jury awarded ExoMatter, a startup from Germany, with the general 2025 Innovation Radar Prize for his or her progressive ExoMatter Platform for Supplies R&D, which provides simply searchable AI-enriched knowledge for scientific supplies screening, by way of highly effective filters and Exira, the primary pure language AI-Agent on this area. Extra info will be discovered on the ExoMatter web site.

Class Winner ‘Local weather, Power & Mobility’:

Ecolyte, from Austria, gained the ‘Local weather, Power & Mobility’ class for his or her sustainable know-how options that intention to enhance every day life whereas defending our planet. Their eco-friendly merchandise intention to spice up vitality effectivity and scale back waste throughout a number of sectors, together with vitality storage, vitality conversion, and water remediation. Extra info will be discovered on the Ecolyte web site.

Class Winner ‘AI & Digital Intelligence’:

Minespider, from Germany, gained the ‘AI & Digital Intelligence’ class for his or her provide chain traceability options, primarily specializing in the mineral market. The Minespider platform operates within the realm of accountable, compliant, and round mineral provide chains. Extra info will be discovered on the Minespider web site.

Class Winner ‘Good {Hardware} & Robotics’:

Equal1, from Eire, gained the ‘Good {Hardware} & Robotics’ class for his or her quantum-computing know-how delivering scalable, on-premises quantum options by augmenting at the moment’s CPU/GPU workloads with QPU (quantum processing unit) to make exponential quantum-computing energy out there globally. Extra info will be discovered on the Equal1 web site.

In regards to the Innovation Radar Prize

The Innovation Radar is the European Fee’s initiative to make it simpler to find improvements rising from analysis and innovation initiatives financed by the EU underneath Horizon Europe, the world’s largest public funded analysis and innovation programme. That includes over 15k EU-funded improvements, it places a highlight on excellence and provides the chance to hunt out innovators who might comply with within the footsteps of corporations similar to BioNTech, Skype and ARM Holdings, all of whom obtained EU funding of their early days.

This 12 months’s prize scheme was open to over 2000 EU-funded innovators throughout Europe – SMEs, startups and spinoffs – creating a variety of ground-breaking improvements.