Deeptech startup Prismus has secured €163,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick, Tech.eu reports. The money is earmarked for Lupa, the company's AI platform that links scientific research to industrial opportunities.
What Lupa does
According to the report, Lupa pulls together material that normally sits in different places: publications, patents, research institutions, company databases and industry news. AI agents work through these connected sources and rank markets, companies, researchers and potential partners by how well they fit a given technology. The pitch is that companies no longer need to do this research by hand, which the article says slows strategic decisions and commercial growth.
The platform stresses traceability. Insights are presented with verifiable sources, so a user can check where a recommendation came from. Prismus says this helps surface opportunities that conventional market research may miss.
Traction and plans
The startup says it has already signed its first thirty paying customers. The new funding is meant to help it scale in deep tech markets and bring on individual users. The team named in the article is CEO Elisabeth Blyumin, CTO Timen van Gelderen, Chief AI Officer Gonçalo Hora de Carvalho and Chief Revenue Officer Peter Kempin.
Blyumin credited Venture Kick with pushing the company into its next phase, singling out the intensive Kickers Camps.
What the source does not say
The article gives no pricing, no plan structure, no list of integrations and no timeline for onboarding individual users. It also does not describe which models power the agents. The customer count and the claim about missed opportunities come from the company's own account.
Why it is on our radar
This is a small round, but it fits a pattern of AI products that automate the research step before a sale or partnership. For teams that run prospecting by hand, the useful question is how much of that work can be handed to agents whose output is backed by checkable sources.