Science & Startups Scale X: How NVIDIA Accelerates Future Startup Champions
Smart scaling is hard. But it is learnable, and it's a lot faster when you're in the right room. That's why Science & Startups and NVIDIA invite Berlin's most ambitious deep tech scaleups to a first-of-its-kind community evening.
Berlin's AI and deep tech ecosystem is home to some of Europe's most exciting ventures: teams pushing the frontier in physical AI, agentic AI, health and life sciences, and quantum technologies. The question is no longer whether these ventures can build, but how they grow: how they access capital, enter new markets, build the right teams, and turn early traction into lasting global impact.
The evening is structured around four deep tech verticals: physical AI, AI natives / agentic AI, healthcare and life sciences, and quantum technologies & xG communication — from the pitches to the networking rooms.
What to Expect
A warm welcome from Prof. Fatma Deniz, President of TU Berlin and Howard Wright, NVIDIA VP for Startup Ecosystem.
Panel Discussion: Moderated by Laura Möller, CEO of JUNI and one of Germany's leading voices at the intersection of AI, deep tech, and venture.
Featuring Tobias Halloran, Director Startups EMEAI at NVIDIA, and Malte Pietsch, CTO of deepset AI, one of Berlin's most exciting scaleups, for a practitioner's conversation on what smart scaling actually looks like.
Rapid-Fire Pitches One founder per vertical takes the stage for a focused, high-energy pitch.
Dedicated Networking Rooms The heart of the evening. One hour of focused conversation in four thematic rooms, each dedicated to one of the evening's core topics. Every room is co-facilitated by an expert from NVIDIA and Science & Startups, and designed for real exchange between founders, scientists, and ecosystem builders working on the same hard problems.
Open Networking & Catering Close the evening with food, drinks, and open conversation with Berlin's deep tech community.
Who Should Attend
This event is built for founders who have already taken the leap: startups that are (soon) raising or have recently closed a round, and are now focused on scaling. If you're building in deep tech and want direct access to expert knowledge across your vertical and a room full of people who get what you're working on, this is your evening.
Investors, ecosystem builders, and researchers working at the intersection of deep tech and industry are equally welcome.
Experts
Sampath Koppole, HCLS Startup Lead, EMEA
Ingy Yasser, Agents & Quantum Startup Lead, EMEA
Eran Rosenberg, Head of Physical AI and Robotic Startups, EMEA
Matteo Sarcinella, AI Labs & Model Builders Lead, EMEA
Prof. Dr. Markus Krutzik, Integrated Quantum Sensors, HU Berlin
Yousof Alsatom, AI Director, Scaling Agentic Enterprise Engineering
Ole Senkbeil & Claudia Dirks, Launchpad Manager, Science & Startups
Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir, Head of the Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) Group, TU Berlin