Jeremy Bercoff

Meet Sylvie Menezo, the founder and CTO of SCINTIL Photonics, a deep-tech semiconductor startup spun out of CEA-Leti in Grenoble. Her path is a story of scientific ambition, technical excellence, and bold entrepreneurship: building a platform that brings together lasers, modulators, detectors and waveguides into a single manufacturable chip using their proprietary SHIP (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics) process. Scintil’s flagship product - LEAF Light, a DWDM-native single-chip light engine - delivers 6.4 Tbps/mm edge bandwidth with much lower power consumption than traditional optical solutions 🚀 . Data centres are hitting bandwidth, latency, and energy efficiency constraints - and the shift from copper to integrated photonics is a foundational infrastructure transformation. Scintil helps Europe compete in a critical technology stack, reduce reliance on overseas optical component supply chains, and drive the next generation of compute and communications systems. Scintil closed a $58 million (≈ €50 million) Series B round, led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with strategic participation from NVIDIA, BNP Paribas Développement, and others including existing backers like Supernova Invest, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Bosch Ventures, INNOVACOM, and Applied Ventures. 🇪🇺 European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) has also supported Scintil earlier, helping with early R&D, validation, and bridging capital. 🇪🇺 Europe is not just a place for innovation - it is the place to grow deep tech infrastructure and sovereign capacity. Europe is ready to support dozens more founders like Sylvie - especially women in deep tech - with the capital, networks, and public backing they need 🚀

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From IRB Lab to Startup Success: Luxyon Takes First Place at Nuqleus Demo Day 🏆☀️ We're thrilled to announce that Luxyon, a startup co-founded by our researcher Stjepan Dolić from the Laboratory for Energy Conversion Materials and Sensors, has won first place at the prestigious Nuqleus Demo Day during the Liftoff conference! Together with his co-founder Jakov Kukin, Stjepan impressed the jury with their vision of flexible, ultra-lightweight perovskite solar cells that can transform almost any surface into a renewable energy source. Imagine a thin, almost transparent film that can be applied to backpacks, walls, or greenhouses, quietly converting sunlight into electricity. This revolutionary technology requires less than 1 milliliter of solution per square meter, offering a minimal environmental footprint compared to traditional silicon panels. As the only team to secure direct entry to the final phase, Luxyon will now receive personalized mentorship and strategic support to bring their first prototypes to market within a year. The applications range from extending drone flight times to transforming agricultural greenhouses into energy sources. Stjepan's advice to young researchers? "Find a problem that motivates you, build a team, and start working immediately. Don't wait for perfect results - learn through mistakes and don't be afraid of competitions like Nuqleus Startup Builder." IRB proudly supports our researchers in transforming their innovations into solutions with real societal and environmental impact! 🌱 #StartupSuccess #CleanTech #SolarEnergy #Innovation #Research #Perovskite #IRB #NuqleusStartupBuilder #DeepTech #Sustainability

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I am proud to announce the release of Atlas of Human Embryo Development: Advances with New Imaging Technologies, created in collaboration with Nicolas Plachta’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania. For the first time, we can visualize in 3D, in real time, and at subcellular resolution the journey of the human embryo from fertilization to preimplantation. This atlas is not just a collection of images; it is a scientific tool that I hope will inspire progress in reproductive medicine, fertility care, and our understanding of early human life. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/dAg6sMZw

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The boundary between fundamental research and industrial applications in quantum science has never been thinner. In today’s Le Monde opinion piece, Christophe Jurczak (Quantonation) joins Antoine Browaeys (CNRS), Loïc Henriet (Pasqal), and Nicolas Treps (Sorbonne Université) to advocate for stronger collaboration between academic labs and start-ups. Read here : https://lnkd.in/eAZ2w9_A Their message is clear: it is within this continuous dialogue between science and entrepreneurship that the most fertile innovation emerges – and where a solid quantum industry can be built, serving society and advancing technological leadership.

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[HEALTH] CEA-Leti was proud to host the REVEAL project team last June for a dedicated workshop showcasing the results of this European research project. The workshop highlighted four and a half years of research on neuronal microscopy for the examination and manipulation of cell and organoid behavior. The event was interdisciplinary, bringing together engineers, biologists, medical doctors, and leading experts driving research and new developments, fostering collaboration and innovation. Learn more about the technology behind it with HoloPhase 3D, a compact and cost-effective label-free 3D microscope designed for long-term, non-invasive imaging of 3D biological samples. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dE99vjVi 🎥 Watch the aftermovie featuring participant insights! REVEAL | Chiara Paviolo, PhD | Yann de Boysson | Caroline Paulus IPRASENSE | École normale supérieure de Lyon | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale Maggiore di Milano - Policlinico | Warsaw University of Technology | Sartorius

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