Customer base: customers on 5 continents, covering globally leading businesses in additive manufacturing, PCB and wafer lithography as well as metrology

What it does: advanced opto-electronic systems for high-resolution manufacturing applications.

Why it matters: precision manufacturing is a key capability for European competitiveness and industrial resilience.

Sparring’s role: restructuring and scaling support, strategic roadmap and commercial execution.

Milestone: Helped build global client base and led business through restructuring proceeding while retaining every single customer.

Customer base and partners: Army of Top-5 NATO member state, National European Army, European Defence Fund

What it does: hardware-based security designed for environments where failure is not an option.

Why it matters: sovereign cyber resilience requires deployable solutions, not only policy.

Sparring’s role: growth financing and operational scaling support.

Milestone: Outpaced a $5bn US defence player in technical due diligence of a Top-5 NATO armed force.

Customer base: global blue-chip customers covering private and public sectors including global leaders such as L’Oreal, Beiersdorf, Shiseido, Colgate-Palmolive, Henkel, Uber, Spotify, Starbucks, Google, McKinsey & Company, NIQ, Gates Foundation, UEFA, The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Mastercard Foundation

What it does: quantifies total addressable markets and forecasts future demand across highly granular geographies and demographics.

Why it matters: decision-quality data becomes mission-critical in volatile environments; proprietary data assets gain value as AI adoption accelerates.

Sparring’s role: scaling partnerships, commercial acceleration, and execution support.

Milestone: Struck strategic partnership with NIQ, the world’s largest consumer insights company — driving transition from public sector consulting clients towards private sector, recurring revenue customers.

Co-Investors: Chi Impact, Catagonia Ventures

Customer base and partners: providers of critical infrastructure, largest bank in Central and Eastern Europa, global hyperscaler, and others

What it does: entangled quantum key distribution technology with superior performance credentials. Zerothird was founded by the former core team of Nobel laureate Dr. Anton Zeilinger (Physics, 2022).

Why it matters: as computing power increases, security standards must move beyond classical assumptions; quantum-safe infrastructure becomes strategic.

Sparring’s role: commercial scaling, ecosystem partnerships and strategic support.

Milestone: Building Europe’s largest commercial quantum network and leading role within the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure Program (EuroQCI)

Co-Investors: Verbund-X, KGALi, Findus Ventures

Customer base and partners: several major European arms manufacturers

What it does: plasma-based coatings engineered for performance and durability in highly demanding environments.

Why it matters: regulatory pressure and sustainability needs accelerate replacement of legacy materials; high-performance coatings are strategic for industrial capability in both, civil and military applications.

Sparring’s role: commercialization pathway, strategic partnerships and execution support.

Milestone: Co-invested by global market leader in performance coatings and imminent roll-out with major European defence players

Co-Investors: Oerlikon, United Angels