The INPHO Venture Summit offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to benefit from highly valuable interactions with private investors and C-level managers of leading organizations. This year, more than 300 start-ups applied to join INPHO, 50 were selected and invited to digital interactions. 20 finalists were invited to introduce themselves in the pitching sessions, part of the INPHO 2022 Start-up Award.

All participants acknowledged the high quality of the start-ups invited to INPHO and how they address the key challenges discussed during the panel discussions. Space is definitely a high-growth market opportunity targeted by Pangea Aerospace with its disruptive rocket engines, environmentally friendly propulsion systems and its attractive business model. The need for energy transition is a no-brainer, but the challenge is huge to replace fossil fuels. Hydrogen is quite promising as well as EH Group Engineering offering scalable stack hydrogen fuel cells for high power applications. Decarbonization and energy transition are also calling for a change in the way we burn energy. In a world dominated by the digitalization of all industries, edge computing offers an interesting perspective to lower power consumption as explained by Nicolas Leterrier, CTO of Schneider Electric. 2 companies illustrated this analysis and introduced very attractive innovations to reduce energy consumption from data exploitation. Innatera offers ultra-low power intelligence for sensors and UPMEM is focusing on next generation data center computing architecture. Another major topic raised during the INPHO Venture Summit is the need for more automation and agile production to strengthen European manufacturing competitiveness while reducing its carbon footprint. Robots offer attractive solutions and LightCode Photonics with its smart, scalable and cost-effective approach provides 3D vision to robots so they can better interact with their environment and humans to handle new tasks.