Prismus raises $182K grant for AI platform linking science to industry

What's the deal? Swiss deeptech startup Prismus has secured a US$137.5K (≈$182,000) grant from Venture KickDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → to advance Lupa, its AI platform that connects scientific research with industrial opportunities. The company has already signed its first 30 paying customers.

What's the endgame? Scientific breakthroughs create new business opportunities, but relevant information is scattered across publications, patents, research institutions, and industry news. Lupa pulls those sources together and makes them searchable, using AI agents to identify and rank markets, companies, and potential partners by technological fit.

How it works: The platform provides traceable insights backed by verifiable sources, aiming to surface opportunities that conventional market research may miss. Prismus plans to use the funding to scale in deeptech markets and onboard individual users.

Who's behind it? The team is led by chief executive officer Elisabeth Blyumin, chief technology officer Timen van Gelderen, chief AI officer Gonçalo Hora de Carvalho, and chief revenue officer Peter Kempin.

"VentureKick has excited us, challenged us and pushed us into the next phase of our company," said Blyumin.

The signal: The grant is a modest early-stage bet on a specific problem: turning fragmented research and patent data into commercial leads for deeptech firms. The broader AI-for-science space is drawing far larger institutional commitments, but those target research infrastructure rather than Prismus's commercial-intelligence niche — making this round a small validation of market demand, not proof of product-market fit.

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