Deep Tech Startups

SQK develops a deep-technology stack combining quantum, AI, and high-performance computing, entering the market through medical imaging workflows before expanding into energy, manufacturing, and research applications. It offers products for pilots, API access, validation services, and enterprise simulation, targeting healthcare, industrial, and scientific environments.

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Squarehead Technology designs and manufactures electronically steerable microphone arrays that turn sound into actionable data for acoustic situational awareness. Its systems serve the industrial and security/defense sectors, with applications including passive sound-based drone detection and acoustic monitoring of machinery for early failure detection.

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Stablix is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing small-molecule medicines based on targeted deubiquitination therapeutics (TDT), using heterobifunctional molecules that recruit deubiquitinases (DUBs) to target proteins to restore protein stability and normal function. It focuses on treatments for cancer, rare diseases, and immunological disorders.

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Standard Machines is building reinforcement learning environments for long-horizon chip design tasks. Its first product targets the semiconductor design workflow using RL-based methods.

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StandardX builds an isotope refinery platform for sovereign production of medical and industrial isotopes in the UK and Europe, replacing fragmented supply chains with a single compact system designed initially for cancer care applications.

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Star Signal Solutions provides space traffic management and collision avoidance monitoring for commercial satellites and orbital activities. The company protects orbital space debris prevention to maintain the viability of satellite services that support global weather, navigation, finance, and disaster response systems.

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Starburst is a global accelerator dedicated to Aerospace & Defense startups, providing acceleration programs, consulting missions, private pitches and events. It connects startups with industrial partners and allied governments through a team present in nine countries.

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Starburst is a global accelerator and strategic advisory firm focused on the aerospace and defense industry, offering startup acceleration programs, strategy consulting, and venture investments. The company connects early-stage innovators in aviation, space, defense, and enabling technologies with corporate partners, investors, and government stakeholders.

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Stardust Initiative develops sunlight reflection technology that introduces safe particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect incoming sunlight and stabilize global temperatures. The company conducts collaborative research with scientific institutions on stratospheric aerosol injection for climate stabilization at a planetary scale.

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Stardust develops sunlight reflection technology that introduces safe particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and stabilize global temperatures. The company serves the climate science and environmental policy sectors with a technology designed to be deployed at planetary scale.

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Stargate Hydrogen manufactures industrial alkaline electrolysers that produce green hydrogen for steel manufacturing, enabling low-carbon steelmaking routes like hydrogen-based direct reduced iron. The company provides scalable hydrogen production systems to support decarbonisation in the global steel production industry.

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Starna Therapeutics develops RNA-based therapeutic drugs focused on hepatic and extrahepatic targeted delivery technology. The company has built a proprietary platform of cationic lipids and lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to achieve organ-specific delivery and is advancing clinical-stage mRNA vaccine and mRNA therapeutic candidates.

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Startuplab.01 is a deep tech hub in Chile offering specialized laboratories (nearly 1,000m²) and collaborative workspaces for early-stage scientific and technological startups from TRL 4-5. It provides support and acceleration programs to help startups in fields such as biotechnology, agrifood, energy, and mining validate, pilot, and scale their technologies alongside industry.

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StartupYard is Central Europe's leading pre-seed and seed accelerator for technology startups, offering a three-month fully remote mentorship program with funding, network access, and operational resources to early-stage tech companies. Founded in 2011 and based in Prague, it has accelerated over 125 startups from 25+ countries.

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StealthCase develops glass antenna technology and passive signal repeaters integrated into building materials to enhance mobile connectivity in energy-efficient buildings. The company licenses its patented solutions to manufacturers globally, with over 100,000 products deployed across Nordic markets.

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Project Omega recycles spent nuclear fuel and develops next-generation nuclear power systems for national security, energy independence, and waste remediation. The company builds portable power sources and fuel recycling infrastructure to meet growing U.S. energy demand.

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Steelhead LNG is a developer and licensor of a patented floating LNG export facility design (At-Shore LNG) that reconfigures traditional onshore LNG plant elements to lower cost and carbon footprint. It targets LNG project proponents, licensing its modular, air-cooled, electric-driven facility design for the natural gas liquefaction and export industry.

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Stell develops AI systems for complex environments, focused on computer vision that interprets visual data.

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The Stellenbosch Nanofiber Company (SNC) develops and manufactures products based on electrospun nanofiber technology, using its patented high-throughput electrospinning platform to take customers' nanofiber concepts to commercial-scale, regulatory-compliant production. It serves customers across industries including filtration, biomedical and healthcare, energy, electronics, cosmetics, and textiles.

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StemBond makes SENCE, a range of cell culture well plates (6 to 96 wells), coverslips and inserts pre-coated with a proprietary animal-free hydrogel tuned to tissue-relevant stiffnesses. The synthetic, xeno-free surfaces are sold as reorderable consumables to researchers and biotechs to reduce variability and improve reproducibility in standard cell culture workflows.

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Stemnovate provides an integrated platform combining multiomics data, cell reprogramming technology, and mechanistic functional studies to accelerate drug discovery and clinical translation for rare diseases, neurodegenerative conditions, and other therapeutic areas across human and animal health. The company operates cellular biobanks, develops microphysiological systems for in vitro testing, and partners with pharmaceutical and academic institutions to reduce reliance on animal testing while enabling precision medicine research.

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Stem Pharm develops therapeutics using stem cell technology for disease treatment and drug discovery. The company serves pharmaceutical and biotech partners seeking advanced cell-based approaches to translational drug development.

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Stendr is building defence technology that fuses data from disparate sensors to counter fast-moving threats such as drone swarms, aiming to give operators clearer, faster situational awareness. It positions itself as a Nordic defence company for mission-critical, high-consequence operations.

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Stereotech manufactures 3D printers and provides industrial parts printing solutions, including pump impellers, membranes, and seals for equipment manufacturers and service providers.

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