Programme Overview

Tech Tour and PhotonHub Europe are excited to announce an exclusive initiative designed to accelerate the growth of 15 promising photonics scale-ups.  

The PhotonHub Scaling Club enhances funding and business development by providing strategic guidance to help companies scale and achieve key valuation inflexion milestones. Through in-person and online roadshows, the enrolled companies connect with cornerstone investors, prospective partners, and industry leaders, supporting their scaling potential and market reach. This initiative empowers Europe’s top photonics innovators to lead in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. 

Vision & Mission

Vision

Scale photonics solutions for the next generation of digital and communications infrastructure

Mission

Support select photonics scale-ups with opportunities for investment, partnerships and potential co-funding and potential co-funding with the support of stakeholder Members

Select group of scale-ups to develop opportunities for

Investments

Secure follow-on funding with guidance and investor introductions

Partnership

Meet and collaborate with the key stakeholders of the industry

Co-funding

Assess your technology upscaling for potential co-funding [70-85% of a cost of max. 500K]

To confirm your interest please contact

Iliana Kostadinova iliana@techtour.com

PhotonHub Europe Scaling Club is an initiative developed by Tech Tour, Europe’s largest tech investment community and PhotonHub Europe – a unique European full-service one-stop-shop digital innovation hub for photonics, as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation in Public Private Partnership with Photonics21.

Roadshows

digital

BERLIN, GERMANY

OCTOBER 9-10, 2025

digital

EINDHOVEN, NL

NOVEMBER 4-5, 2025