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Alumni Success Story: Carbyon

10 December 2021 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Will the buildup of greenhouse gasses and ongoing climate change make our world uninhabitable? ‍Not if Hans De Neve has anything to do with it. ‍De Neve and his Carbyon team are tackling perhaps humankind’s biggest challenge – how to capture CO2 in the atmosphere built up from centuries of burning fossil fuels. ‍This is

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Alumni Success Story: Alphabeats

17 November 2021 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

In a program that has produced multiple fast-growing startups and scale-ups, AlphaBeats stands out in just how rapidly they’ve evolved and how much buzz they’ve generated. ‍AlphaBeats came out of HighTechXL’s 2019 cohort. In HighTechXL’s deep-tech venturing building concept, the team formed around technology developed by Philips and tested extensively at Tilburg University. AlphaBeats holds

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Alumni Success Story: Aircision

13 October 2021 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Aircision launched from the first deep-tech cohort after HighTechXL switched from a conventional high tech accelerator back in 2018. And the team has been pushing hard every day since then building, testing and perfecting communications links using laser technology with a next generation active alignment system. Aircision builds high capacity (20 gigabits per second) Free

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HighTechXL brings technology, companies and money together

22 April 2021 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Dutch in Trouw April 12, 2021. We’ve translated the article to English here. High-tech start-ups need money to grow. The company HighTechXL in Eindhoven helps them in their search for start-up capital. A cooling system so small that you can stick it on a data chip. The

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University of Waterloo and Brainport Eindhoven are taking the next steps to bring new nanotech to Dutch and European markets

1 April 2021 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) at the University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) and the economic development agency of Brainport Eindhoven in the Netherlands have taken another step towards bringing Waterloo’s top nanotechnology innovations to the EU market. The City of Waterloo and Eindhoven embarked on a strategic partnership in 2014 which paved the way for

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John Bell draws on corporate innovation, startup collaboration as HighTechXL’s new CEO

27 November 2020 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

John Bell, new CEO at HighTechXL, brings years of corporate innovation experience from his time at Johnson & Johnson’s JLabs, where he collaborated closely with startups to co-create products. John is excited to build deep-tech ventures from the ground up, startups that will tackle grand societal challenges the world faces. His goal? To be the

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CERN Accelerating News: from laser alignment to laser communication

1 April 2020 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

This article was first published in CERN’s quarterly newsletter, Accelerating News. It is posted here with their permission. You can read the original post here. ‍CERN and Aircision, a CERN spin-off company, have signed an agreement for the application of a bespoke laser system developed for general alignment purposes in the context of the High

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HighTechXL successfully starts with virtual FasTrackhathon

31 March 2020 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

In a week, the HighTechXL team converted the entire FasTrackathon event to a virtual program on due to the corona crisis. Innovation Origins Corine Spaans catches up with the team after the event. Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in Dutch on Innovation Origins news website. Read the full post in Dutch here. By Corine

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FasTrackathon: How HighTechXL pulled off its first virtual hackathon in 9 days

31 March 2020 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

This post was first published on Dispatches Europe March 31, 2020. It is reposted here with their permission You can read it here on Dispatches Europe. This FasTrackathon post is part of Dispatches’ Tech Tuesday series. Dispatches Europe is a HighTechXL partner. For most companies, there’s a “before” the coronavirus pandemic and an “after” the

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Amber doubles the number of car-sharing hubs with recent investment from BOM Brabant ventures

20 February 2020 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s Note: This post was published on the Amber website January 30, 2020. Amber is an alumnus of the HighTechXL accelerator program and just announced a round of funding to double the number of car-sharing hubs from 70 to 140 with a recent round of investment.) Amber, the Eindhoven provider of business shared cars, is

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Alumni Success Story: Carbyon

Alumni Success Story: Alphabeats

Alumni Success Story: Aircision

HighTechXL brings technology, companies and money together

University of Waterloo and Brainport Eindhoven are taking the next steps to bring new nanotech to Dutch and European markets

John Bell draws on corporate innovation, startup collaboration as HighTechXL’s new CEO

CERN Accelerating News: from laser alignment to laser communication

HighTechXL successfully starts with virtual FasTrackhathon

FasTrackathon: How HighTechXL pulled off its first virtual hackathon in 9 days

Amber doubles the number of car-sharing hubs with recent investment from BOM Brabant ventures