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European Scale-up Navigator: A New Guide for Europe’s upcoming Tech Champions | Rise Europe

12 December 2023 by admin | Leave a Comment

Munich, Germany. Rise Europe, a European network of leading start-up ecosystem builders*, announced the launch of the European Scale-Up Navigator, a comprehensive guide for start-ups aspiring to become Europe’s next tech champions. The Navigator provides start-ups that are considering to internationalize with valuable insights, resources, and strategies to navigate the European innovation landscape and achieve

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RVO: Startup? Wake up! This is what you need to know about patents

8 December 2023 by admin | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: In this blog post the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), breaks down common misconceptions about patents. This blog post was published on their website and is re-posted here with their permission. As you might expect, at the Netherlands Patent Office, we know a lot about patents. In our interactions with startups, we encounter quite

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PhotonDelta invests in Spectrik, an integrated photonics venture addressing nitrogen crisis

1 November 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

PhotonDelta has invested in deep-tech venture Spectrik, currently in HighTechXL’s venture building program. Spectrik is developing an integrated photonics gas sensor to measure real time ammonia emissions at livestock farms, including dairies and pork producers. By demonstrating the precise measurement of ammonia at the farm level to policymakers, officials and environmental services, Spectrik intends to

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Tech Tuesdays: After toughing it out for years, Usono is finally having its moment

12 October 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: Usono is an alum of HighTechXL’s hardware accelerator program before pivoting to deep-tech venture builder in 2018. This article was written by Terry Boyd and published on Dispatches Europe, who followed Usono’s progress from the earliest days at HighTechXL. The article is part of Dispatches’ Tech Tuesdays series, and it’s reposted here with

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How a Dutch venture builder is accelerating European deep tech

3 October 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: This article was written by Jennifer Schenker and was originally published on The Innovator website. It is published here with their permission. Read the original post.) When researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), developed a cooling system for particles traveling at light speed through the world’s largest and highest-energy collider,

PhotonVentures raises €60 million to supercharge Europe’s photonics startups

21 September 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: this press release was published on the PhotonDelta website August 31, 2023 and is reposted here with their permission.) EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – PhotonVentures has launched a venture capital fund aimed at early-stage photonic chip startups and scale ups. €60 million was raised in its first financing round with PhotonDelta as the lead investor alongside numerous

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Astrape Networks secures €1.6 million in pre-seed funding to develop photonics-powered ‘sustainable data center’

14 September 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

12 September 2023 EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – Astrape Networks – an innovative tech startup that uses unique integrated photonics to build faster and more sustainable optical networks – has secured a pre-seed funding round of €1.6 million from a consortium of investors and loan providers, including Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), Rabobank, Brabant Startup Fonds, TTT

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HealthTechXL gives extra impetus to startups in advanced medical technology in Brainport Eindhoven

13 September 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

A new venture building program for startups in the healthcare and MedTech sector, that is HealthTechXL. The partners involved are Philips, HighTechXL, the Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), DeepTechXL and Invest-NL. With the new program they want to give an extra boost to the creation, building and development of startups in advanced medical technology in the Brainport Eindhoven

HighTechXL joins prestigious DeepTech Alliance

31 August 2023 / 18 November 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

We’re excited to announce we’re expanding our global ecosystem – again – as we join the DeepTech Alliance. The DeepTech Alliance brings together the best European deep-tech startup incubators, thought leaders, innovative corporates, investors and the continent’s most promising deep-tech startups. “We’re thrilled to be the Dutch representative within the DeepTech Alliance,” said John Bell,

EP&C Patent Attorneys: Innovation in patent land

24 July 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: this blog post was published on the EP&C Patent Attorneys website on May 24, 2023 and is reposted here with their permission. Towards the end of last year I told you about an important upcoming development in the patent system: the Unitary Patent (UP) or European Community Patent, which will allow you to

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