Meet the Pitch Competition finalists of the EU-Startups Summit 2026!

On Might 7-8, Malta will as soon as once more remodel into the center of European innovation as we host this yr’s version of the EU-Startups Summit. Bringing collectively round 2,500 founders, startup fanatics, buyers, corporates, and media representatives, this yr’s occasion guarantees to be our greatest and most fun version but.

Among the many many highlights of the Summit, the Pitch Competitors stands out as probably the most thrilling moments! This yr, we obtained over 1,600 purposes from exceptionally promising early-stage startups throughout Europe. After a radical analysis course of, 15 finalists have been chosen and can take the stage in Malta to current their startups in entrance of our viewers and a jury of well-known buyers.

Meet the Finalists

Agilica: Based in 2023 and primarily based in Belgium, Agilica delivers a patented multi-modal resilient positioning and GPS-independent navigation know-how for enabling autonomous drone operations. Their onboard positioning system utilises ultra-wideband know-how to allow exact, autonomous drone navigation and touchdown, even inside GPS-denied or dynamic environments.

Agnia Aerospace: Based in 2025 and primarily based within the UK, Agnia Aerospace is growing a dual-mode electrospray thruster for low-Earth-orbit satellites that integrates ultra-high effectivity and high-thrust capabilities right into a single, pump-free structure. Their progressive know-how guarantees to make sure that the following technology of area infrastructure stays manoeuvrable, worthwhile, and 100% debris-free.

AlterEcho: Based in 2025 in Denmark, AlterEcho is growing a system of robotic avatars and AI brokers that seeks to revolutionise the pharmaceutical and medical industries by eradicating the chance of human contamination from cleanrooms. Their options promise to cut back the business’s greatest value drain and operational hazard, leading to cleaner, extra environment friendly, and extra worthwhile operations.

Arclight Aerospace: Based in 2025 in Malta, Arclight Aerospace is growing a regulatory-grade airspace working system that allows secure, scalable, low-altitude operations for drones and future City Air Mobility providers. Their bold crew seeks to supply governments with the instruments to open city airspace whereas giving operators predictable and scalable entry.

Asvel: Based in 2023 in Estonia, Asvel is growing an AI-powered robotic endoscopy system that controls the surgical digital camera utilizing real-time instrument monitoring, soft-robotic actuation, and voice to enhance precision and scale back surgeon workload. By enhancing minimally invasive procedures and lowering dependence on handbook help, they assist allow safer and extra environment friendly operations.

Cooled Motors: Based in 2025 and primarily based within the UK, Cooled Motors is growing a brand new kind of magnetless EV motor that reduces the price of EV motors by as much as 70% whereas matching the efficiency of normal magnet motors. Their bold crew goals to ship extremely environment friendly, sustainable, and economically viable motors for vehicular transport and energy technology worldwide.

DAITABLE: Based in 2023 in Slovakia, this startup leverages AI to observe, predict, and optimise vitality consumption in actual time. By combining superior analytics with seamless integration into present methods, their system identifies inefficiencies early and helps sustainable, future-ready operations throughout energy-intensive sectors corresponding to manufacturing, industrial buildings, and infrastructure.

eMomentum: Based in 2025 and primarily based in Italy, eMomentum delivers an IoT resolution centered on maximising efficiency and minimising waste in industrial and infrastructural operations. Their turnkey resolution repeatedly displays motor methods, serving to to cut back vitality prices and lower CO₂ emissions because of predictive upkeep alerts and AI-powered skilled assist.

Entrelacs: Based in 2025 and primarily based in France, Entrelacs goals to finish one-size-fits-all psychological well being evaluation by constructing AI that understands every individual’s psychological well being past standardised exams. Combining conversational AI with adaptive psychometrics, its platform tailors evaluations to people and improves over time, enabling earlier detection of psychological well being deterioration.

Muun Health: Based in 2023 in Estonia, Muun Well being is growing the primary wearable real-time hormone monitoring machine for girls’s well being. The progressive startup goals to fill the hole in girls’s hormonal well being monitoring for a greater high quality of life with their non-invasive tech options, with insights accessible via their cellular software for higher administration of reproductive well being.

Snoika: Based in 2024 in Estonia, this B2B SaaS startup helps firms turn out to be seen, cited, and advisable in AI engines like google. Their know-how fine-tunes AI fashions and turns AI search right into a predictable inbound progress channel by analysing how manufacturers seem in actual AI-generated solutions and systematically injecting authoritative context till goal visibility KPIs are reached.

Systellar Space: Based in 2024 in Spain, Systellar Area is enabling AI for the design of advanced bodily methods corresponding to satellites, plane, trains or automobiles. At present supported by Techstars International Accelerator Program, the Systellar Area crew is now additional growing its progressive platform synapse™ and increasing its industrial attain to speed up bodily engineering.

Vecify: Based in 2026 in Spain, Vecify is growing an AI engineering compliance platform that helps groups transfer sooner with out compromising security. By connecting necessities, verification, and certification via steady traceability, the Vecify platform reduces handbook overhead, catches points earlier, and helps groups keep audit-ready all through product improvement.

Warden Machinery: Based in 2023 in Luxembourg, Warden Equipment is growing AI and laptop imaginative and prescient to make important processes in metals and mining extra predictable and environment friendly. They search to assist the transition from intuition-driven operations to information by deploying industrial AI brokers at important resolution factors, serving to to allow real-time management and loss prevention.

Xydra Labs: Based in 2025 in Germany, Xydra Labs is a frontier utilized AI lab that has developed an structure permitting LLMs to purpose over structured enterprise information whereas mathematically preserving its topology. They flip LLMs from purely linguistic methods into verifiable reasoning engines for real-world buildings, and goal to scale throughout monetary providers, insurance coverage, and past.

The Prize Package deal

The stakes are excessive! Valued at over €1 Million, the prize is juicier than ever! Filled with funding alternatives and credit for excellent instruments and providers to supercharge your startup’s progress, this prize might really remodel your entrepreneurial journey. Let’s see what’s in it:

• €250k Funding Alternative with Look AI Ventures. The winner will get fast-tracked and invited to pitch instantly in entrance of Look AI Ventures‘ funding committee, and after the due diligence course of, there can be a funding alternative of as much as €250k.
• $220k Funding Alternative with Techstars. The winner can be fast-tracked for a precedence interview to affix Techstars. This ensures that the startups’ marketing strategy can be reviewed by the Techstars funding crew and essentially the most related program managing director. Following a optimistic due diligence course of, the startup could have the chance to affix a Techstars accelerator programme, together with a $220k funding.
• As much as €434k in Funding from Malta Venture Capital, matching the funding of Look AI Ventures and/or Techstars, if the profitable startup is both primarily based in Malta, open to relocating to Malta or contemplating a subsidiary in Malta.
• As much as €100k in Cloud Credit from IONOS to assist your startups’ internet hosting and scaling wants with a trusted European cloud supplier.
• $24k in Credit from Cyscale. The profitable startup will obtain cloud safety credit to observe and safe its cloud atmosphere, serving to to detect misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and potential threats.
• $24k Draper University scholarship (as much as 2 co-founders, $12k per founder), together with a assured interview with the Draper College choice committee and funding fund and, upon choice, a full scholarship protecting the programme prices, with lodging and co-working area within the coronary heart of Silicon Valley. Flights, visas, and private bills not included.
• $12k in Credit from LUA AI to construct an AI agent that helps automate duties and interactions.
• Achieve €12k in worth at Make, together with €6k in Credit (Make Groups, 3.6m credit) and €6k in session providers, to construct no-code automated workflows utilizing Make’s visible automation platform.
• As much as $12k in Credit from Notion (6 months free Enterprise Plan with limitless AI), entry to Notion Perks (unique reductions on different software program) and to Notion Champions Community.
• 90% low cost on HubSpot for Startups Professional Suite (value as much as $25k), together with entry to HubSpot’s Free CRM and Gross sales, Advertising and marketing, and Operations instruments. The prize additionally features a $1,000 matched credit score for LinkedIn and Google Adverts by way of HubSpot, in addition to as much as $150,000 in financial savings from HubSpot partners. T&C apply.
• €10k in JetBrains licenses for important improvement and crew instruments, together with award-winning instruments corresponding to IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and JetBrains AI, trusted by 50,000+ startups worldwide.
• €10k in Remote Credit to assist worldwide hiring and assist groups entry international expertise. Credit are legitimate for 12 months.
• €9,900 D-ID Video Maker Enterprise plan, 5-user bundle with one yr of free use.
• €5k in worth for an exhibition desk on the EU-Startups Summit 2027, together with 3 occasion tickets, and a 3-year CLUB membership.

The Jury 

Secure your ticket today and keep tuned for thrilling updates on our event page!

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