The EIT Digital Champions Arise Once More

Europe's deep tech ecosystem continues to thrive, and the EIT Digital Champions 2025 have once again showcased the continent’s most promising scaleups. This year’s competition attracted over 350 applications from high-growth companies leveraging digital innovation to transform industries. Among them, 50 finalists were selected to pitch their solutions to an elite panel of investors and industry experts. And, as in years past, fully 50% of applicants, finalists and winners have women CxOs! After an intense competition, eight companies have emerged as the 2025 EIT Digital Champions.

Meet the EIT Digital Champions 2025:

  • CINFO (Spain): A leader in multimedia content solutions, CINFO delivers innovative technology to broadcasters and media companies, enhancing viewer experiences.
  • Excalibur (Slovakia): Excalibur is transforming cybersecurity by democratizing Privileged Access Management with an intuitive, passwordless authentication system.
  • Hopp (Iceland): Hopp is redefining urban mobility with its locally owned and sustainable electric scooter-sharing service, helping cities reduce their carbon footprint.
  • Latitudo 40 (Italy): Specializing in geospatial data analytics, Latitudo 40 empowers urban planners and environmental agencies with powerful insights for smarter cities.
  • Macaron (France): Revolutionizing urban mobility by unifying on-street and off-street parking information into a single, user-friendly platform, allowing drivers to seamlessly find and pay for parking.
  • Peroptyx (Ireland): Through advanced location-based data annotation and model evaluation, Peroptyx enhances AI and machine learning applications worldwide.
  • Reltime (Norway): Reltime leads in AI and Web3 innovation, offering a customizable SuperApp for digital banking, payments, and identity management.
  • XPDeep (France): Offering the first self-explainable deep learning framework, enabling both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand AI model decisions.

Driving Europe’s Digital Future

The EIT Digital Champions competition continues to support and accelerate Europe’s digital transformation, fostering the next generation of scaleups that will shape the future. These winners represent the forefront of innovation, tackling global challenges through technology and entrepreneurship. As they embark on their next growth phase, we eagerly anticipate the impact they will make in the years to come.

We celebrate these inspiring scaleups as they enter the EIT Digital Growth Services programme and wish them great success in their Journey of a Champion.
- Fabrizio Della Pace, EIT Digital Challenges Lead

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