Every Monday, a look back at what the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab startups made headlines with over the past week.

THIRD WEEK OF OCTOBER 2026  ·  12–18 OCTOBER 2026

dotLumen   ● ACTIVE ·  57 days left in the program

High-Tech · Life Sciences & Healthcare  ·  Paris Lab  ·  Southern Europe

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🔬 dotLumen's Smart Glasses: Guide‑Dog Freedom Without Waitlists Romanian startup dotLumen introduces AI‑powered smart glasses that give blind users guide‑dog‑level navigation without waitlists or care, led by ex‑autonomous‑driving innovator Cornel Amariei and independence. LinkedIn · Eu Startups Menlo Media  ·  15 Oct 🔬 dotLumen Eyes Silicon Valley: AI Glasses for the Blind Set to Scale Worldwide dotLumen, a European startup developing AI glasses for the blind, is launching its Physical AI for Mobility in Silicon Valley to forge partnerships and expand global reach. LinkedIn  ·  15 Oct 📰 dotLumen Wins Glovo Startup Campus 2026 – Mobility AI for the Blind Romanian startup dotLumen clinches Glovo Startup Campus 2026 in Barcelona, spotlighting its AI‑powered glasses that empower blind users and pioneer urban mobility solutions. LinkedIn  ·  13 Oct 📰 Bucharest's Biggest M&A Summit Highlights Vision‑Tech Innovation Nearly 100 M&A leaders convene in Bucharest for IMAP Fall Conference 2026, while dotLumen CEO Cornel Amariei showcases smart glasses that empower visually impaired users, emphasizing purpose over profit. LinkedIn  ·  15 Oct

Proxima Fusion   ● ACTIVE ·  305 days left in the program

Infrastructure, Energy & Materials  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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📰 Very excited to be working with Proxima Fusion and to support their effort to make ALPHA a success Very excited to be working with Proxima Fusion and to support their effort to make ALPHA a success LinkedIn · Michele Romanelli  ·  13 Oct 📰 Fusion's 30-Year Leap: 14B Raised, 7 Companies Ready to Ignite the Grid After decades of delay, fusion ventures now boast sites, customers and launch dates, raising \\\$14B+ worldwide. Proxima Fusion leads with German quasi‑isodynamic stellarators targeting grid‑ready plants. LinkedIn · Gareth Joseph Video Creator  ·  15 Oct 📰 Munich's Startup Boom: \\\$4B Raised, From Fusion to Defense Tech Munich's vibrant startup ecosystem has secured over \\\$4B since June, spotlighting high‑valuation tech from AI defense to fusion reactors, autonomous drones, and space launch companies. LinkedIn · Peter Wong Flywheel  ·  14 Oct 📰 IPO Night 2026 zeichnet die Champions des Kapitalmarkts aus Weimer Media Group Gmbh  ·  14 Oct

Strong by Form   ● ACTIVE ·  118 days left in the program

Architecture, Engineering & Construction  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe · Latin America

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📰 Strong by Form: Ultra‑Light Timber Floors Hit Price Parity Strong by Form's 10‑meter timber slab, 80% lighter than concrete, secured €5.8 M to certify the tech. Though pricier per square meter, overall price parity comes from lighter foundations. LinkedIn · Bricks Bytes  ·  17 Oct 📰 Woodflow Lights Up Times Square, Pitching a Greener Concrete Revolution Strong by Form showcased Woodflow on Times Square's massive LED, positioning its biomimetic timber technology as a lightweight, cost‑neutral alternative to concrete, steel, and aluminum—ready for industry adoption. LinkedIn · Andres Mitnik  ·  14 Oct

Biomotum   ● ACTIVE ·  518 days left in the program

High-Tech  ·  Boston Lab  ·  North America

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📰 Boston Neurotech Night: Pitch, Demo, and Dinner Boston's Seaport hosts a neurotech night where founders pitch, demo breakthroughs—from EEG‑controlled games to whole‑brain nanoparticle interfaces—while investors dine, shaping the future of brain‑based tech. LinkedIn  ·  14 Oct

Hopper   ● ACTIVE ·  163 days left in the program

Life Sciences & Healthcare  ·  Paris Lab  ·  Western Europe

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👥 Trailblazing Triumph: Salomon Para‑Team Tackles Mascareignes with Hopper‑Powered Prostheses Salomon Para‑Team runners Aurélien Guého and Julien Veysseyre head into the Mascareignes, a 74 km, 3,800 m Grand Raid Réunion race, powered by Hopper‑Salomon prostheses, blending homecoming, ambition, and trail innovation. LinkedIn  ·  15 Oct

Cellink   ● ALUMNI

Life Sciences & Healthcare  ·  Paris Lab  ·  North America

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📰 Cellink Unveils Scalable 3D Breast Cancer Models at ELRIG Cellink showcases advanced bioprinting at booth C18–C20, unveiling scalable, tunable‑stiffness 3D breast cancer models that accelerate human‑relevant drug discovery and NAMs adoption. for researchers worldwide LinkedIn · Cellink  ·  15 Oct 📰 Cellink Unleashes DNA Forma Lab: Next-Gen Bioprinting Beyond Layer‑by‑Layer Cellink's DNA Forma Lab software breaks free from traditional layer‑by‑layer printing, granting unprecedented toolpath freedom for complex 3D geometries—paving the way for advanced tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. LinkedIn  ·  13 Oct 📰 Revolutionizing Biofabrication: CELLINK's DNA Forma Lab Enables Curved, Vascular‑Inspired 3D Printing CELLINK's new DNA Forma Lab expands biofabrication beyond flat layers, offering non‑planar, branched, and vascular‑like printing with flexible G‑code paths—transforming tissue engineering and drug testing. LinkedIn · Nadia Malakmahmoudi  ·  13 Oct 📰 Revolutionizing Tissue Engineering: Non‑Planar Bioprinting Yields Curved, Vascularized Constructs with 90%+ Cell… Cellink demonstrates two non‑planar bioprinting workflows—curved scaffold deposition and embedded vascular‑like structures—yielding stable, high‑viability (90%+) constructs, proving curvature‑aware toolpaths can create anatomically… LinkedIn · Cellink  ·  12 Oct

Flying Whales   ● ALUMNI

Paris Lab

💰 Flying Whales Eyes \\\$300M Airship Hub in Mexico for Heavy‑Cargo Logistics French startup Flying Whales plans a \\\$300 million investment to build an airship hub, create 300 jobs, and deploy 200‑m helium vessels to ferry 60 tonnes of cargo to sites by 2027. LinkedIn  ·  15 Oct 📰 Exel Composites Launches Finnish Hub to Fuel Flying Whales' 60‑Ton Cargo Airship Exel Composites has opened a new Finnish facility to produce carbon‑fiber tubes for Flying Whales' 60‑tonne LCA60T airship, a key step as the project moves into process validation. LinkedIn · Industry Wiz  ·  16 Oct

Plastic Odyssey   ● ALUMNI

High-Tech · Marine & Offshore  ·  Paris Lab  ·  Western Europe

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📰 Sailing For Oceans: 5 Ambassadors Chart Course to Clean Seas on Route du Rhum Five high‑profile skippers pledge to sail the Route du Rhum while championing Plastic Odyssey's mission to fight plastic pollution, hosting events at the race village and rallying support from Oct 20‑Nov 1. LinkedIn · Plastic Odyssey  ·  16 Oct

Project-S   ● ACTIVE ·  144 days left in the program

Aerospace & Defense  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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📰 Project‑S Sets Sights on IAASS 2026: Advancing Space Safety Project‑S will attend IAASS 2026 in Antibes, showcasing its collision‑avoidance tech and networking with satellite operators and researchers to advance orbital safety, traffic management, and sustainability. LinkedIn · Project S Space  ·  16 Oct 📰 🌍 GLOBAL SPACE CONNECTIVITY & SUSTAINABILITY EVENTS 2026- Day 2 ITU 🌍 GLOBAL SPACE CONNECTIVITY amp; SUSTAINABILITY EVENTS 2026 📅 Day 2 |KEYNOTE | Fit for Purpose Regulation: Bringing Satellite Connectivity to All 🛰️PANEL | Satellites and 6G: Integrating Satellite Systems into… LinkedIn  ·  16 Oct 📰 Global Space Connectivity & Sustainability Events 2026 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀. 🛰️ The real test is what improves in operations. At the Space Sustainability Forum 2026 in Riyadh,… LinkedIn · Project S Space  ·  13 Oct

Marble Imaging   ● ACTIVE ·  93 days left in the program

High-Tech  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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📈 Marble Imaging Unveils First Satellite Photos – Germany's First Sub‑Meter Earth‑Observation Mission Marble Imaging releases first photos of Marble Sat‑1 post‑vibration test, a milestone toward its 2027 launch. The German firm will pioneer sub‑meter, near‑infrared, and SWIR Earth‑Observation. LinkedIn · Marble Imaging  ·  12 Oct 📰 Marble Sat‑1 Passes Vibration Test, Debuts Iodine Hall Thruster Marble Sat‑1 completes vibration test and qualification, integrating the world's first low‑power iodine Hall thruster, JPT150. The Earth‑observation satellite, built by Reflex Aerospace, is slated for a 2027 launch. LinkedIn  ·  13 Oct

Sitegeist   ● ACTIVE ·  297 days left in the program

Architecture, Engineering & Construction  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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🏆 Sitegeist Robotics wins Bold Future Award 2026 leadersnet.de  ·  13 Oct

Quantum Systems   ● ALUMNI

Aerospace & Defense  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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👥 Quantum Systems’ Agent Days 2026 Romain Tourpe joined Quantum Systems’ Agent Days for the annual update to its commercial network. The programme covered company developments, new products and the information partners need to stay up to date with the… LinkedIn  ·  16 Oct 🌍 Quantum Systems expands production in Ukraine, adding 1,000 employees inforadio.de  ·  15 Oct 📰 Quantum Systems: Vom Start-up zum Defence-Riesen Katharina Kleint  ·  13 Oct

Vaeridion   ● ALUMNI

Aerospace & Defense  ·  Munich Lab  ·  Central Europe

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📰 Electric Microliners: Vaeridion's Blueprint for Quiet, Zero‑Emission Regional Flights Vaeridion's Microliner, a nine‑passenger electric aircraft, promises quieter, zero‑emission regional flights up to 500 km. The podcast explores battery‑wing integration, cost competitiveness, and commercial viability for operators. LinkedIn · Sustainability In The Air  ·  14 Oct