The Sulphurreal project member ExoMatter has won the 2025 Innovation Radar Prize. Awarded by the European Commission and Dealflow.eu, the Innovation Radar Prize celebrates the most promising EU-funded innovations with the potential to make a global impact.
As part of the Sulphurreal project, which has received funding from the European Union’s European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) programme, the innovative ExoMatter Platform for Materials R&D has been further developed.
Start-up from Germany
ExoMatter was finalist in the Climate, Energy & Mobility category, and selected as the overall Grand Prix winner across all three categories. The start-up from Germany offers easily searchable AI-enriched data for scientific materials screening, through powerful filters and Exira, the first natural language AI-Agent in this field.
As an annual celebration of EU innovative excellence, the European Commission and the Innovation Radar Bridge initiative organised the 11th edition of the Innovation Radar Prize. The event took place in the Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Portugal on 10 November 2025. There the twelve finalists – all SMEs, start-ups or spinoffs who had previously received research and innovation funding from the European Commission – delivered a pitch to investors and entrepreneurs outlining their ground-breaking innovations and plans to scale them in the marketplace.
All award winners:
- Overall Winner: ExoMatter
- Ecolyte, from Austria, won the ‘Climate, Energy & Mobility’ category for their innovative ion conductive, paper-based membrane that can be used in batteries, fuel cells, electrolysers and water purification systems.
- Minespider, from Germany, won the ‘AI & Digital Intelligence’ category for their innovative Digital Product Passports (DPP) solution that facilitates supply chain traceability, primarily for the mineral market.
- Equal1, from Ireland, won the ‘Smart Hardware & Robotics’ category for bringing to market QPU (quantum processing unit) technology in a rack-mounted server form factor, that offers plug-and-play data-centre integration.