European Artist Bank is developing an EU-compliant platform that empowers artists with true ownership, transparent monetisation, and stronger copyright protection for all digital and analogue art and music. By integrating Rucio, CERN’s open-source data management framework, the platform brings scientific-grade reliability to creative assets through policy-based replication and integrity checks, helping establish trusted provenance and rights infrastructure for artists, institutions, and financial partners.
“CVC turns my deep curiosity into real traction. Working with CERN’s community has raised our bar on evidence, ethics, and engineering, and helped us as a team turn hard questions into concrete, buildable steps.”
Rob Stanley – Co-Founder & CPO of European Artist Bank
Advancing real-time water management with fiber optic sensing
FiberSight develops advanced fiber optic sensing solutions for real-time water management. Building on CERN’s Humidity Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor technology, the company enables high-precision and cost-effective monitoring over large distances. Its solutions support applications including leak detection, precision irrigation in agriculture, and structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure, helping improve resource efficiency and sustainability.
Credits: FiberSight
“Having CERN as a partner has been invaluable for FiberSight, not only for access to world-class expertise and state-of-the-art infrastructure but also for the extensive network of contacts we can reach. Being part of CERN Venture Connect will accelerate our growth by providing key opportunities to refine our technology, validate our solutions, connect with industry leaders, and access venture capital. This ecosystem empowers us to push the boundaries of fiber optic sensing and bring innovative solutions to market faster.”
Bringing sub-nanosecond timing to financial networks
Liquid-Markets Solutions (LMS) has developed a network interface card incorporating CERN’s White Rabbit technology for high-precision time synchronisation. The product enables precision time transfer directly to the host, opening new possibilities for applications requiring extremely accurate timing. Currently being tested by selected clients, the technology is expected to see early adoption in the finance sector, where precise and reliable timing is critical.
Credits: Liquid-Markets GmbH
“CERN Venture Connect has been extremely beneficial to LMS in opening doors to European entities. The program is helping us achieve a number of our goals, both capital and potential business opportunities, further strengthening and expanding our network throughout Europe. Anybody who is thinking about, or is in the early stages of working on a technology initiative, should consider working with CERN CVC. One of the huge benefits of partnering with CERN is the fact that the underlying technology challenges it faces are ultimately not unique to a laboratory environment and the solutions that it implements are transportable to other other technical segments across a variety of local, regional, and global industries. “
Seth Friedman – Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid-Markets-Solutions
Enhancing wind monitoring with laser-based sensing
LightEye is a deep-tech startup delivering ultra-high-accuracy wind forecasts to wind energy producers and energy traders. By deploying the largest wind lidar network in Europe and engineering the most cost-efficient coherent Doppler lidar systems in the market, LightEye provides precise, real-time measurements of wind speed, direction, shear, and turbulence at turbine height. This enables energy companies to optimize production forecasts, reduce imbalance costs, improve trading strategies, and increase asset performance. LightEye combines advanced photonics, FPGA-based signal processing, and scalable data infrastructure to transform atmospheric measurements into actionable market intelligence.
Credits: LightEye
“The greatest thing about CVC is not the cutting-edge tech or the very needed support services they offer. It’s the contact with the great people that make it up.”
Advancing the design and simulation of magnet systems
Little Beast Engineering specialises in the design and analysis of advanced magnets and cables, with a focus on superconducting systems. The company builds on superconducting magnet design expertise developed at CERN and the University of Twente to support complex magnet challenges across sectors such as fusion energy, medical technology, and aerospace. Alongside consultancy, Little Beast also develops RAT, an open-source simulation tool for modelling and analysing key electromagnetic properties of superconducting and conventional magnets.
Credits: Little Beast Engineering
“We are using the experience we gained at CERN that is needed to design top-notch superconducting magnets. I especially like how CERN Venture Connect opened our eyes to new possibilities. Since joining, we have been invited to join CVC at Gitex, which resulted in our first meeting with an investor. It also opened my eyes to how we can continue to grow the business in steps. All of this combined gave me more insight into how we can continue to grow the business in steps, and make plans for accelerating our software development in a quickly changing world.”
Nikkie Deelen – Co-Founder of Little Beast Engineering
Precision laser solutions for advanced manufacturing
Nobula develops laser-based solutions for industrial manufacturing applications such as high-precision marking and engraving. The company builds on CERN’s Structured Laser Beam (SLB) technology, a laser capable of producing a non-diffractive beam that maintains its profile over long distances with very low divergence. This enables highly controlled and precise laser processing, opening new possibilities for industrial laser applications.
Credits: Nobula
“The Structured Laser Beam technology from CERN is a game changer for the laser smoothing process. Conventionally, laser polishing is done on flat surfaces. But when we polish something like the mouse cranial window, the surface is non-planar, which makes the smoothing process quite tedious to program. With this CERN technology, we can deliver a laser focal line that is centimetres long. This solves the problem and allows us to use normal scanning to achieve the same polishing results that would otherwise require complex programming and eventually work on much more complex surfaces. Through CERN Venture Connect and access to this technology, we can go a step further in what we deliver compared with the rest of the market.”
Boosting productivity on construction sites with modular robotics
AXL Technologies develops SISYFBOTS, modular robots built on CERN’s Structured Laser Beam (SLB) technology. The robots assist craftsmen with demanding on-site tasks such as drilling, demolition, screwing, sanding, and painting. Designed for intuitive use, SISYFBOTS reduces physical strain and improves productivity across varied work areas, providing flexible and precise support for construction and renovation professionals.
Credits: AXL Technologies
“The use of SLB allows us to truly enter the deep-tech space and push much further in differentiating ourselves from potential competitors. In 2026, we will carry out our first fundraising round, and CVC, through its network, will help us gain visibility. We are also looking to attract new talent, particularly graduates in AI and robotics, and CERN’s network will enable us to reach this kind of expertise. Technologies that drive humanity forward can also empower smaller startups.”
Universal Atmosphere Processing, a UK-based climate technology company, develops the Atmospheric Processor™, a modular plasma-powered system incorporating CERN’s Accurate2A chip technology. The system captures high-value noble gases and removes CO₂ from ambient or industrial air, delivering clean air and usable heat as byproducts. UAP’s technology enables efficient, non-cryogenic gas separation, unlocking new supply chains for gases such as xenon, krypton, and neon, while supporting industrial carbon removal and clean infrastructure initiatives.
“Being part of CERN Venture Connect has been a great experience. It’s not just about access to technology, it’s about being embedded in a culture of world-class precision and ambition. The support from CERN is starting to sharpen our scientific rigour and elevate our entire platform. We’re not just building a climate company, we’re building the infrastructure for the atmosphere, and CVC is helping accelerate that vision.”
Brendan Cornthwaite – Founder & CEO of Universal Atmosphere Processing
