In the European innovation landscape, scaling tech and applied deep-tech startups requires more than capital. What often determines success is the ability to translate technological excellence into industrial reality.
For this reason, ELEMASTER Group has entered a strategic partnership with imec.istart, one of Europe’s leading accelerators for tech and applied deep-tech ventures.
Through this collaboration, startups supported by imec.istart will gain access to ELEMASTER’s industrial ecosystem and to the competencies of ELETECH, the Group’s Head of R&D and International Design Centres division operating across highly regulated sectors such as railways, medical devices, energy and industrial automation.
The initiative is fully aligned with ELEVO Innovation HUB, the Group’s platform designed to build structured collaboration between startups, research centres and industry, supporting the critical transition from prototype to scalable and certifiable products.
“Applied deep-tech does not fail because of lack of ideas.
It slows down when industrial complexity emerges.
ELEVO was created within ELEMASTER to address this structural gap, embedding system thinking, certification logic and manufacturability from the earliest stages of innovation.
Through this partnership, the Group reinforces a long-term direction: contributing to a European ecosystem where research, capital and industry are integrated from the outset, not aligned only at the end.” Ivo Boniolo, ELEVO Manager, Elemaster Group.
This collaboration marks another step in ELEMASTER’s commitment to strengthening Europe’s innovation ecosystem by connecting technological ambition with industrial credibility.