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Alumni Success Story: Veridis

6 October 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Founded in 2020, Veridis is the rare team that came to HighTechXL as an existing startup after the pivot to deep-tech venture builder. The four-person team has developed complex thermal analysis technology that allows recyclers to more accurately assess the quality of plastic anywhere in their recycling process. ‍That’s important, because in a world of

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Alphabeats receives €1.5 million, inPhocal receives €2 million in DeepTechXL first investment round

28 September 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

It’s been an exciting two weeks for deep-tech ventures as Alphabeats and inPhocal receive funding from DeepTechXL’s first investment round. Alphabeats closed a €1.5 million investment round led by DeepTechXL and supported by LUMO Labs. The investment allows Alphabeats to focus on taking their patented neurofeedback technology to the next level and developing their digital

Innovencio highlights Dutch innovation grants available for startups

19 August 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Being the entrepreneur behind a startup can be challenging. The company has to grow, you have to keep an eye on your KPIs, you have to find and hire new people, you have to get along with your co-founders, you have to guard the company culture, you have to continuously improve your innovative technology, you

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HighTechXL and PhotonDelta: building integrated photonics ventures

21 July 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

PhotonDelta and HighTechXL are forging a strong partnership to advance integrated photonics technologies and build deep-tech ventures to take the tech to market. In so doing, we also strengthen the integrated photonics ecosystem, folding in stakeholders across the globe. It’s a match made in heaven. How does this partnership work? We’ve laid it out in

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Unique Dutch collaboration between private tech sector, Brabant region and impact investors results in new Dutch deep-tech fund of €100 million

24 May 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

“Deep-tech” is a category of advanced enabling technologies developed at research facilities to address the grand societal challenges as defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in the areas of healthcare, energy transition and sustainability, security and food. Deep-tech innovation enables long-term sustainable economic success and creates high value-add employment in the advanced high-tech manufacturing

Carbyon wins $1M XPRIZE carbon removal milestone award

16 May 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

High Tech Campus Eindhoven-based Carbyon has been all over the news, all over the world, with their $1 million Milestone Award in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition from the Musk Foundation. But the coverage has lacked one very important detail – Carbyon really came together at HighTechXL, Eindhoven’s deep-tech venture building program. With TechCrunch, Innovation

HighTechXL and PhotonDelta announce partnership

21 April 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

We’re excited to announce a new technology partnership with PhotonDelta! HighTechXL and PhotonDelta will combine expertise and collaborate to identify integrated photonics technologies around which we will build high-performance teams that take the tech to market, further strengthening the Brainport ecosystem and establishing the Netherlands as a world leader in integrated photonics. We build deep-tech

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Alumni Success Story: inPhocal

30 March 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

It was one of the more inauspicious beginnings in the history of Eindhoven startups, followed by one of the most dramatic pivots. The first iteration of inPhocal was a tech-heavy team, strong in physics and engineering, but not so strong on the business side. The team saw all the potential applications of the laser-based marking

Shared innovation is an essential condition in the world of photonics

17 March 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

The world of photonics is … complicated. In this PhotonDelta/Holst Centre article, we discuss the importance of shared innovation, a strength of the Netherlands. Weighing in on the topic are Ton van Mol with Holst Centre, Barry Peet with CITC and John Bell, HighTechXL CEO. “The development of new technologies such as photonics is so

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HighTechXL partners with EP&C Patent Attorneys to support deep-tech ventures

7 February 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Patent agency EP&C Patent Attorneys has partnered with HighTechXL, a venture builder for deep-tech startups in the Eindhoven region. HighTechXL builds teams of entrepreneurs and tech talents to work on the most advanced technologies in the world. EP&C will be a partner in HighTechXL’s program that develops startups into independent businesses over a period of

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