Singapore, May 29, 2026 — Antares Ventures has formally joined Eureka Network’s Investment Readiness Programme, strengthening its engagement with European deep-tech startups and corporations exploring growth pathways into Asia.
Led by Partner Louis Murayama, the engagement with Eureka began at Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2025, where Eureka’s delegation brought together European founders, investors, corporates, and ecosystem partners exploring how international startups can engage with Asia’s innovation and investment landscape.
The partnership comes as European deep tech continues to gain capital and momentum, while the scale-up bottleneck remains. The 2026 European Deep Tech Report shows European deep-tech VC funding reached $20.3 billion in 2025, representing 32% of all European VC investment. The report also identifies persistent challenges around growth-stage funding, market fragmentation, researcher-to-founder conversion, and risk appetite among corporates and governments.
For investors and corporates, that context points to a practical question: how to move beyond thematic interest in deep tech and identify where energy, industry, infrastructure, and compute become both investable and strategically relevant. Europe–Asia pathways are part of that answer, especially where frontier technologies meet urgent commercial problem statements and industrial demand.
For Antares Ventures, the collaboration strengthens a cross-border pathway it has been building deliberately: connecting global deep-tech founders with the market access, industrial collaboration, and commercialisation support required to scale in Asia.
Louis Murayama, Partner at Antares Ventures, said:
“We’re pleased to join Eureka Network’s Investment Readiness Programme and engage with Europe’s leading deep-tech founders. This partnership aligns with our focus on working early with high-potential teams and supporting their expansion into Asia through industrial collaboration, market access, and long-term value creation.”
The strongest technologies do not scale through access alone, but through proximity to the problems they are built to solve. The partnership reflects Antares Ventures’ focus on early-growth deep tech, where scientific depth must meet commercial readiness, industrial adoption, and market-specific execution. Through Eureka’s Investment Readiness Programme, Antares Ventures will engage with European startups and corporations working across areas such as energy, computing, industrial systems, and other frontier technologies where Asia’s growth markets present strong commercial pull.
Antares Ventures is a purpose-built deep tech venture capital fund focused on scaling breakthrough industrial technologies into complex, high-growth Asian markets. We invest globally in science-backed innovators shaping the convergence of energy, computing, and industry systems, while actively support their commercialization and expansion across Asia.
Antares differentiates itself through deep regional connectivity and a thesis-driven approach informed by proprietary research, identifying where structural demand, industrial constraints, and policy tailwinds converge to enable real-world adoption and durable value creation.
For more detail, check www.antares.ventures
Eureka Network’s Investment Readiness Programme connects European startups and SMEs with corporates, investors, and ecosystem partners to support international growth, investment readiness, and commercialisation opportunities.
Read more about the Investment Readiness Programme:
https://www.eurekanetwork.org/programmes-and-calls/investment-readiness/
