Prismus, a Swiss-based deeptech startup, has received €163,000 in grant funding from Venture Kick to accelerate development and market expansion of its artificial intelligence-powered platform Lupa. The funding will support the company’s efforts to scale operations within deep-tech markets and expand its user base.
Lupa represents an innovative approach to a longstanding challenge in technology commercialisation: connecting fragmented scientific research and patent data with industrial applications. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to transform raw research and patent information into structured, actionable market intelligence for industry professionals seeking to identify emerging technologies, potential partners, and commercial opportunities.
Addressing Market Intelligence Gaps
The startup’s core offering addresses a recognised inefficiency in how companies discover and evaluate emerging scientific developments. Rather than requiring researchers and business development teams to manually sift through scattered academic publications and patent databases, Lupa consolidates this information and applies machine learning to extract relevant market signals and technological trends.
This capability proves particularly valuable for enterprises operating in innovation-intensive sectors where staying informed about emerging breakthroughs can determine competitive advantage. By automating the analysis of scientific and patent data, the platform enables companies to identify potential acquisition targets, licensing opportunities, and technology partnerships more efficiently than traditional methods.
Building on Strategic Support
Elisabeth Blyumin, a representative from Prismus, described the impact of Venture Kick’s support framework: “VentureKick has excited us, challenged us and pushed us into the next phase of our company. In particular, the Kickers Camps were intense and rewarding to complete.” The statement reflects the structured mentorship and accelerator programming that Venture Kick provides beyond capital deployment.
Venture Kick, a Swiss-based pre-seed funding initiative, typically supports early-stage technology companies through both financial backing and intensive entrepreneurial development programmes. The grants provided by the organisation are designed to validate business concepts and enable founders to pursue full-time development of their ventures.
Expansion Plans
With this capital infusion, Prismus intends to focus on two primary objectives: expanding operations and user adoption within deep-tech sectors and enhancing the platform’s capabilities for individual users. The company’s strategy suggests recognition that market intelligence tools serve multiple audiences—from corporate business development teams to independent researchers and individual innovation scouts.
The funding announcement arrives amid growing European investment in artificial intelligence applications across enterprise software. Swiss deeptech companies have become increasingly visible within the broader European startup ecosystem, with the country’s proximity to major pharmaceutical, materials science, and industrial centres providing natural markets for research-to-commercialisation platforms.
Prismus’s success in securing grant support reflects investor confidence in AI-powered solutions that bridge the historically wide gap between scientific discovery and industrial implementation—a transition point that remains a persistent friction point for technology transfer across Europe and beyond.