A year full of progress, awards, and bold steps forward. We would like to look back on the year and present our highlights:  ILLUTHERM wins award 2025 was marked by competitions and recognition for our work.Our highlights include the “Startup of the Year 2025” award from Frankfurt Forward, 2nd place in the HSG Alumni Founder…

After ILLUTHERM successfully made it into the top 20 and thus into the semi-finals of the international start-up competition Slush100, the big day arrived on November 19, 2025: Co-founder and CEO Lukas Porz was given the opportunity to pitch ILLUTHERM to an international audience and jury at the Slush event. Even though we didn’t make…

November 19, 2025, was all about pitching at ILLUTHERM:While our CEO Lukas Porz was on stage at the Slush 100 semifinals, our COO Milto Vlachos pitched at the Startup of the Year Award hosted by Frankfurt Forward—with overwhelming success. Milto Vlachos impressed the jury of leading investors and top CEOs, securing first place for ILLUTHERM!…

ILLUTHERM has successfully made it into the top 20 at the international start-up competition Slush100 and is therefore one of the semi-finalists!Slush is known for bringing the most visionary founders to the stage. We are proud to announce that ILLUTHERM will be pitching on this stage in the semi-finals!We will use this opportunity to showcase…

ILLUTHERM has made it into the top 50 start-ups of Slush100! Slush is known for bringing the best greens to the stage – and we are proud to announce that ILLUTHERM is still there! With our disruptive technology, which uses blue light to heat materials to over 1000 °C in just a few seconds, we…

On Saturday (24.05.) our founder Lukas Porz successfully presented Illutherm at the HSG Alumni Germany Conference in the “Physical Business Ideas” cluster – and won 2nd place! Many thanks to HSG Alumni Founder Pitch for the organization and realization of the great event – and of course the award! 🏆 The aim of this conference…

As part of our participation in Frankfurt Forward ‘s Startup of the Year Award, Startup Valley published a GründerTalk with our CEO Lukas Porz. 🔥 🔵 You can read the interview here:https://startupvalley.news/de/illutherm/ Many thanks for the feature! StartupValley on social media: Instagram: @startup_valleyLinkedIn: StartupValleyMagazineFacebook: startupvalleynews

We had a proper celebration on Friday. 🎉Because ILLUTHERM is now 2 years old! 🎂 Lukas Porz, Michael Scherer and Milto Vlachos founded ILLUTHERM GmbH on 28.2.23. We are incredibly proud of everything we have been able to achieve with our team and our large support network since then – and that we are always…

2024 were for us… 365 days.1450 degrees Celsius.120.000 YouTube clicks.1000 paper citations.100.000 euros turnover through trials. These were our highlights: New addition for our trophy collection After celebrating our participation in the final of the Hessischer Gründerpreis at the end of 2023, this year we were delighted to win the Science4Life e.V. Energy Cup, come…

Melting coins with blue light –How exactly does it actually work? If you’ve ever asked yourself that question, then we’ve got something for you! We recently had a visit from Jacob Beautemps and his team from the YouTube channel Breaking Lab, on behalf of SPRIN-D. Together with Lukas Porz, Jacob not only talks about the…

Last week, Lukas Porz, Milto Vlachos, Justin Morgan Nankman and Diego Ortiz attended the Cherry Picks event in Darmstadt. Together with five other Darmstadt start-ups, we were able to pitch for a fancy trophy in the shape of a dazzling cherry. 🍒 The event exceeded our expectations – thanks to the great atmosphere and a…

Lukas Porz came up with the idea of firing ceramics with blue light during his time at the TU Darmstadt, where he also met Michael Scherer. Last week, we were awarded the SP!N-OFF label, a seal of quality for innovative spin-offs from TU Darmstadt. We are a somewhat unusual spin-off, because the idea on which…

For 5 years now, you have been promoting particularly novel and disruptive technologies and innovations – and we have been able to be part of it! We would like to say a big thank you to our colleagues at SPRIN-D for their trust in our technology and for the opportunities it has given us. We…

Having already won the concept phase of the Science4Life Energy Cup, we have now also achieved first place in the final phase of the business plan phase.