Tech Tour Photonics 2025 in Berlin Showcases Europe’s Brightest Photonics Innovators
Tech Tour Photonics 2025 was held on 9 and 10 October in Berlin as part of Photonics Days 2025. Over two days, the event brought together 30+ startups and 40+ investors, facilitating over 80 one-to-one meetings that sparked new partnerships and investment conversations. The programme showcased Europe’s most promising photonics and photonics-enabled ventures through multiple pitching sessions.
The two-day event featured discussions on how photonics innovation drives quantum, what investors want in strategic photonics trends, and a fireside chat. The strength of Europe’s photonics ecosystem shone through in the innovative pitches and visionary conversations that defined this edition.
Eight innovators received Top Presenting Company awards, recognising the quality of their presentations and the clarity with which they showcased the potential of their photonics solutions.
Top Presenting Companies
ADMIR Analysis uses mid-infrared spectroscopic imaging and deep learning to deliver rapid biochemical fingerprints per pixel, aiming to transform tissue and cellular diagnostics in under a minute.
FluIDect develops compact biosensor instruments that detect pathogens and proteins inline using µBeads and fluorescent resonator signature technology, enabling real-time monitoring in food, water, and manufacturing.
eyeo pioneers nanophotonic color-splitting image sensors that avoid traditional absorptive color filters, capturing more light and improving sensitivity, resolution, and color accuracy.
Solinide Photonics offers prototyping and service capabilities in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and develops microcomb sources for scalable, energy-efficient multiwavelength applications.
Phanofi builds energy-efficient, high-speed photonic interconnect solutions that bridge light and electronics to power scalable AI datacentres and reduce the environmental footprint of data transfer.
Photon Bridge delivers an integrated photonics platform combining gain, filtering, and detection on a single PIC, with a tunable laser module already sampled for telecom and coherent subsystems.
Quantune Technologies builds chip-sized tunable laser spectrometers for molecular sensing in the mid-infrared “fingerprint” range, offering lab-grade spectral analysis in a fingertip device.
TriLite Technologies develops ultra-compact laser beam scanning displays combining MEMS and algorithmic calibration to deliver world-class augmented reality optics in lightweight form.
Xavveo produces distributed photonic radar and sensor network systems for mobility and automation, recently raising $8.6M to scale its photonic radar technology.
Solinide Photonics, Photon Bridge and eyeo are part of the first edition of PhotonHub Scaling Club Programme.
The programme was co-hosted by OpTecBB, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH, PhotonHub, Photonics21, partnered with Sheffield Haworth, Photon Hub Scaling Club, Photon Hub Phactory Launchpad Program, and supported by EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium).
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