Robotic lab start-up makes case for €500M EU-funded materials testing facility

Dunia Innovations was featured in Investment Reports, with co-founder and CEO Alexander Hammer discussing the core challenges and vision behind the company's work in AI-driven materials discovery. The interview covers how Dunia's platform IRIS addresses the simulation-to-reality gap and the lab-to-factory gap, the partnerships underway with Valterra Platinum and Hitachi Hi-Tech, and the ambition behind the proposed GigaLab initiative, which aims to generate large-scale real-world datasets from self-driving laboratories to fundamentally change how materials science is done. Investment Reports is distributed through Newsweek and a network of world-class media outlets.

Dunia Innovations was featured in the FII Institute's 2026 essay series examining Europe's economic trajectory, through a contribution by co-founder and COO Dr. Ahmed Ismail. His piece, "Europe Doesn't Have a Capital Problem, It Has a Buyer Problem," makes the case that the central obstacle facing European deep-tech is not a shortage of funding or talent, but the absence of an industrial demand architecture that enables scale-ups to find their first major buyers.

Alexander Hammer, Co-Founder & CEO of Dunia, was featured as a contributor in the 2026 Deep Tech Report by Drumbeat Capital, one of the most comprehensive annual surveys of the global deep tech landscape.