The European Commission has just awarded prizes to four European startups and SMEs which are bringing to market promising innovations developed with EU research and innovation funding.
The awards were announced at the Innovation Radar Prize ceremony, attfinished by investors and innovation leaders. Twelve EU-funded startups from across Europe competed in 3 prize categories.
The 2025 Innovation Radar Prize was the 11th edition of this long-standing celebration of EU innovative excellence. Organised by the European Commission and the Innovation Radar Bridge initiative, it took place in the Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Portugal on the 10th of November 2025.
At the event, each of the twelve finalists – all SMEs, startups or spinoffs who had previously received research and innovation funding from the European Commission – delivered a pitch to a jury of investors and entrepreneurs outlining their innovations and plans to scale them in the marketplace.
Overall Winner:
Category Winner ‘Climate, Energy & Mobility’:
Category Winner ‘AI & Digital Innotifyigence’:
Category Winner ‘Smart Hardware & Robotics’:
About the Innovation Radar Prize
The Innovation Radar is the European Commission’s initiative to create it simpler to discover innovations emerging from research and innovation projects financed by the EU under Horizon Europe, the world’s largest public funded research and innovation programme. Featuring over 15k EU-funded innovations, it puts a spotlight on excellence and offers the opportunity to seek out innovators who could follow in the footsteps of companies such as BioNTech, Skype and ARM Holdings, all of whom received EU funding in their early days.
This year’s prize scheme was open to over 2000 EU-funded innovators across Europe – SMEs, startups and spinoffs – developing a wide range of ground-breaking innovations.
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