Mihai Miron, the president and co-founder of the Grenoble-based start-up Golana Computing, is aiming for their first major deployments this year. Established in 2023, the company, developed from CNRS, is working on a technology – a box with sensors combined with a software solution based on magnetic neurons and artificial intelligence – aimed at the industrial sector.
Their innovation focuses on predictive maintenance, providing detailed and understandable information on signal anomalies in one or several industrial machines. This technology aims to facilitate human decision-making on necessary actions, offering an alternative to existing solutions that often rely on automatic triggering of simple light signals, requiring subsequent human work for verification and analysis, which can be tedious.
The company, which currently has seven industrial clients in Romania, France, and Norway, is in discussions with numerous companies in manufacturing, biotech, energy, and defense industries.
Golana Computing plans to raise their first funding round by the end of 2026. With a team of five, they anticipate hiring four or five more people by the end of the year. They aim to achieve their first revenue in 2026, targeting €200,000. Additionally, by the end of 2026, they plan to have their first fundraising round with a goal of €1 million.
Funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) will complement the raised funds, as Golana Computing won the EIC Transition call for projects in 2023, receiving a €2.5 million grant. In early 2026, they also secured the EIC Accelerator call, granting them another €2.5 million in funding and capital support.
The European Innovation Council commits to funding one euro for every euro raised over the next three years, with a budget of €8 million set aside for this purpose. Mihai Miron notes that they are prepared to contribute up to this maximum amount.
