Semiconductors · Photonics · Quantum

Europe's Deep Tech
Venture Ecosystem
for Next-Gen Chips

Europe's first pan-continental Deep Tech Venture Ecosystem for next-generation chips — semiconductors, photonics, and quantum. We do what the world's best university deep tech builders do locally, at European scale.

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The European triangle

50+ Startups supported

3k+ m² Cleanrooms

15+ Corporate partners

About the Launchpad

Not an incubator.
A European venture engine
for deep tech chips.

We are not a co-working space. We are not a standard accelerator. We are a highly specialised, university-grade deep tech venture builder — operating at European scale.

What the world's most advanced academic innovation ecosystems do within a single campus — translating deep science into venture-backed companies through access to cutting-edge infrastructure, IP transfer, and expert networks — we do across an entire continent.

Three of Europe's most advanced research hubs in semiconductors, photonics, and quantum computing form a single, borderless alliance. The infrastructure, the talent, and the capital flow freely — so your venture doesn't have to choose.

01High-end research infrastructure — cleanrooms, fab access, photonic platforms — shared across all hubs

02Deep tech venture building: from lab breakthrough to investable company

03Cross-border IP structuring, technology transfer, and co-founding support

04Europe-wide talent pipelines across semiconductors, photonics, and quantum

What we build

Three verticals.
One umbrella: Next-Gen Chips.

The Launchpad focuses exclusively on the three deep tech verticals that define Europe's chips sovereignty ambition — and where our combined infrastructure delivers an unfair structural advantage.

01

Semiconductors

From chip design to fabrication — covering advanced process technology, MEMS, and power electronics. Direct access to cleanroom infrastructure and semiconductor fabrication environments across the Launchpad.

Chip Design · MEMS · Power Electronics · Process Technology

02

Photonics

Integrated and silicon photonics, optical interconnects, and LiDAR systems. Backed by world-class photonic fabrication platforms and one of Europe's most advanced photonics research ecosystems.

Integrated Photonics · Silicon Photonics · LiDAR · Optical Interconnects

03

Quantum Computing

Quantum hardware, qubit architectures, cryogenic electronics, and quantum sensing — developed within leading university research environments and specialised low-temperature fabrication facilities.

Quantum Hardware · Qubit Architectures · Quantum Sensing · Cryo Electronics

Our purpose

What drives us

Vision

A borderless European Deep Tech Venture Ecosystem where the next generation of chips companies scale without limits.

Mission

We unite Europe's most advanced research and venture ecosystems into a single, borderless engine — giving chips founders access to world-class infrastructure, IP networks, and capital to build category-defining companies.

01

Better together — exponentially

Value increases exponentially through combined expertise across ecosystems.

02

Startups first

Startup needs and growth take priority over institutional interests.

03

Practicality over bureaucracy

Tangible value before formal structures.

04

Borderless collaboration

We transcend national interests for a stronger European ecosystem.

05

Full value chain

Connecting every aspect of the next-generation chips ecosystem.

06

Sustainable growth

Long-term capabilities over short-term fixes.

Our partners

Three hubs.
One Launchpad.
Shared infrastructure.

Three world-class research ecosystems — each exceptional independently, transformative together. What unites them is not geography but a shared conviction: that next-generation chips ventures require more than mentoring. They require Europe's best physical infrastructure, research networks, and venture expertise, fully interconnected.

Munich Hub Munich, Germany

Technical excellence meets venture expertise at one of Europe's leading technical universities.

A world-class technical university environment providing deep science expertise, venture-building capability, and a dense network of research groups in semiconductor and quantum technologies. From first prototypes to first institutional funding rounds.

Semiconductor researchQuantum labsVenture buildingIP transfer

Eindhoven Hub Eindhoven, Netherlands

Europe's most advanced integrated photonics and semiconductor fabrication ecosystem.

World-class cleanroom facilities, integrated photonics fabrication platforms, and one of Europe's most advanced semiconductor research clusters — where academic research and industrial-scale fabrication are structurally intertwined.

NanoLab cleanroomPhotonics fabricationIP supportIndustry matchmaking

Dresden Hub Dresden, Germany

Europe's most important semiconductor manufacturing region — where research meets volume production.

Embedded in Europe's most significant semiconductor manufacturing cluster — a region combining cutting-edge fabrication capacity with a deep research and startup ecosystem.

Silicon SaxonyFab ecosystemIndustry accessFunding access

+More partners joining

The Triangle Munich · Eindhoven · Dresden

Contact

Get in touch

Whether you're a founder looking for support, an organisation interested in partnering, or simply want to learn more — reach out directly.

For deep tech founders

Working on a semiconductor, photonics, or quantum venture? Tell us what you're building, where you are in the journey, and what infrastructure or expertise you need.

For ecosystem partners

Research universities, innovation hubs, or deep tech ecosystems in semiconductors, photonics, or quantum — reach out to explore how we build Europe's chips venture infrastructure together.

Write to us collaboration@future-chips.eu We read every message and respond personally.

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Europe's Deep TechVenture Ecosystemfor Next-Gen Chips

Not an incubator.A European venture enginefor deep tech chips.

Three verticals.One umbrella: Next-Gen Chips.