Microamp and the EIC Accelerator: 5G mmWave Sales Doubled in 2025

Most 5G networks run below 6 GHz, where the spectrum is crowded and the bandwidth narrow. Microamp Solutions builds base stations for the millimetre-wave bands far above that, where a single cell can carry several gigabits a second over short distances, and it sells them as private networks to factories, research labs and, increasingly, armed forces. Its next product, Any-G, is meant to move between 5G and future 6G bands through software and firmware updates rather than a hardware replacement.

The EIC Accelerator selected Any-G at its 6 May 2026 cut-off for blended finance. CORDIS records a grant agreement signed on 23 September 2026, an EU contribution of €2,489,812.50 and a project running from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2028. The company announced the full package in June 2026 as €6.5 million: a €2.5 million grant plus €4 million of equity from the EIC Fund, as reported by Pulse 2.0 on 18 June and The Recursive the same day. CORDIS records only the grant; the equity is an announced figure.

What Any-G is supposed to change

Microamp's current products, listed on its website, are 5G millimetre-wave base stations (gNodeBs), radios and customer equipment, sold as private networks, fixed wireless access and backhaul. The company claims more than 4 Gbps of throughput, an uplink-heavy configuration suited to streaming video from cameras, and networks that run on millimetre-wave spectrum alone, without a lower-band anchor. On 2 September 2026 it launched an outdoor base station, the CellBox One A200.

The CORDIS summary describes Any-G as a reconfigurable radio unit and base station with a programmable AI-based physical layer on high-speed FPGAs, an x86 or ARM software stack and a modular RF front end. The project says the front end can move from today's FR2 millimetre-wave bands to future FR3 and sub-terahertz bands by a software or firmware upgrade, and that this cuts long-term capital spending by up to five times against what it calls legacy systems. It also combines the two duplexing modes, TDD and FDD, at millimetre-wave frequencies, so that one platform can serve ground networks and satellite-backhauled ones. The fivefold saving is the company's figure; no independent test of it is published.

The incumbents the project positions itself against are what it calls closed, hardware-bound radio stacks that require a full replacement at each change of standard or band. Pulse 2.0 reports the same design goal, adding sensing and satellite (non-terrestrial network) features planned for 6G.

From a Fast Track grant to the UK Ministry of Defence

The company was entered in the Polish court register in Lublin on 16 April 2019, according to the full KRS extract. In December 2020 AIN.UA reported more than $2 million of research funding from the Fast Track programme of Poland's National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) for millimetre-wave transceivers, in a project worth nearly $3 million; XYZ gives the same award as PLN 8 million of a PLN 11 million project. The founders met at the Warsaw University of Technology and both completed doctorates in 2020, according to a profile published by Tartu Science Park in April 2025.

The partnerships that followed are documented by the partners or trade press. In October 2022 Keysight announced that Microamp had chosen its KORA test platform to check its millimetre-wave radio units against the O-RAN specifications, and EDN Asia reported the same. In January 2024 Critical Communications Review reported a pairing of Microamp's radios with Druid Software's Raemis core network.

The best-documented recent result is a defence contract. Microamp joined NATO's DIANA accelerator, and NATO DIANA announced that the UK Ministry of Defence had awarded Microamp a contract, placed for Cyber and Specialist Operations Command, for experimentation and operational trials of its 5G millimetre-wave capability. gsmonline.pl reported on 12 June 2026 that the contract ran through DIANA's Rapid Adoption Service and quoted a DIANA representative saying six weeks passed between the requirement and delivery of the test kit. No contract value has been published.

Customers the company names, and what can be checked

Microamp told XYZ in June 2026 that its customers include the Government of Ireland, NEC, NTT, the NATO Communications and Information Agency, Intel and the universities of Bristol and Glasgow, and that its systems run in more than 20 countries on five continents. Kuchta also described it to XYZ's Polish edition as the first company in the world to commercialise 5G millimetre-wave networks at scale. Searches for this article found no statement from any of those named organisations confirming a purchase, and no evidence for or against the "first" claim; both are the company's account.

A year earlier the founders were more modest. In the April 2025 profile they listed finding the first paying industrial customer as a challenge and named their biggest win as a proof of concept with an unnamed large telecom operator. The Vestbee report on the September 2025 round said mobile operators were choosing Microamp for millimetre-wave and fixed wireless access trials, again without names. Since July 2026 the company's website has announced partnerships in Central Europe (Alternetivo, and YOUR SYSTEM in Czechia) and the Gulf (Waseela), and XYZ reported a March 2026 partnership with Hytec Inter for Japan.

Accounts: growing sales, a larger loss

The company has filed audited annual accounts with the KRS for every year from 2019 to 2025, the last on 9 July 2026, according to the current KRS extract. The figures below come from the summary of those accounts published by analizafirm.pl; the growth rates match those shown by EMIS (net sales up 116.13% in 2025). Net sales rose from PLN 1.61 million in 2024 to PLN 3.48 million in 2025, while the net loss grew from PLN 3.30 million to PLN 6.83 million. Total assets were PLN 15.48 million at the end of 2025, and analizafirm.pl puts equity at 4% of assets. Staff numbers are not shown in the sources reviewed.

The register also shows a change of ownership. Microamp Solutions Inc. became the sole shareholder on 29 June 2023, replacing the founders as direct holders. On 30 October 2026 the KRS recorded a capital increase from PLN 20,000 to PLN 200,050 and a new main shareholder, Microamp Solutions B.V., holding 3,601 shares worth PLN 180,050; Microamp Solutions Inc. no longer appears in the list. The extract does not show who holds the remaining shares or why the holding moved to a Dutch company, and the company has published no statement on it. The amount of the 2025 Balnord round has not been disclosed, and a search of public EIC Fund material found no listing confirming the date or terms of the announced €4 million investment.

What the EIC project promised

CORDIS lists what the grant should pay for: completing Any-G, securing compliance, building partner enablement, and moving from pilots to repeatable deployments and the first licensing revenue from equipment makers. The project started on 1 October 2026, a month before this article, so the scorecard below records only the starting point.

1. Complete Any-G developmentToo earlyProject began 1 October 2026; no Any-G product page or test result is published.
2. Software move from FR2 to FR3 and sub-terahertz bandsClaimDescribed in CORDIS and Pulse 2.0; no demonstration reported.
3. Partner enablement through system integratorsStartedPartners announced on the company website since July 2026 for current products.
4. Repeatable deployments and OEM licensing revenueNot yetNo licensing deal announced; named customers unconfirmed by the customers.

Why the EU funds a Polish radio maker

The project's own case is strategic: a European-owned millimetre-wave platform for private and satellite-linked networks, in a market where, the CORDIS summary says, incumbent radio stacks are closed and hardware-bound. CORDIS tags the whole contribution to the digital agenda and 40% to artificial intelligence. The company says its IP, software, hardware design and manufacturing stay in the EU, as reported by Pulse 2.0 and The Recursive. The UK trial through NATO DIANA shows the same product has a defence buyer as well as a civilian one, the dual-use market that XYZ reports the company targets through DIANA.

The reporting is based on publicly available sources, listed below.