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HighTechXL alumnus Sustonable announces equity investment from Gülermak Heavy Industries

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

HighTechXL alumnus Sustonable announces investment round and plans to open a factory near Ankara, Turkey. (Editor’s Note: Sustonable is an alumnus of the 2017 HighTechXL accelerator program. Sustonable received investments from BOM and countertop manufacturer Dekker on-stage at XL Day. Sustonable is planning to open a factory by early summer 2020 to begin production of

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ATO-GEAR, maker of sports wearable arion, raises new investment round to accelerate commercial rollout of its cuttinng-edge running AI

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

Editor’s note: This post was published on techstartups.com on January 28, 2020. ATO-GEAR finished the HighTechXL high-tech hardware accelerator program in 2016. ATO-GEAR, a wearable electronics startup for B2C and B2B sports markets, announced today that it has closed an investment round with Dutch high-tech venture capital fund Innovation Industries. Earlier investors, the BOM Brabant

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Betsy Lindsey with Aircision: A week in the non-stop life of an expat startup star

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

Week in the Life of a Startup: Former HighTechXL Investor Relations and Managing Director Betsy Lindsey joins startup Aircision. Note: This article was originally published on Dispatches Europe. It is reposted here with permission. When you talk about startup teams, the assumption is you’re talking about young people in their 20s. And in the United

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Incooling collaborates with GIGABYTE to develop a new class of two-phase liquid cooled servers

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

Note: Deep-tech venture team Incooling has been in talks with GIGABYTE in Taiwan for the past few months. They published this press release January 14 announcing a partnership with GIGABYTE to produce a new wave of two-phase liquid cooled servers designed specifically for the high frequency trading market. January 14th, 2020 – Taipei, Taiwan and

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Diversity in high-performance teams

13 October 2019 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

In her speech at Female Tech Heroes at High Tech Campus earlier this year, HighTechXL cofounder Anique Soetermeer stressed how crucial a diverse team is for the success of any startup, highlighting her most effective approaches to transforming any team into a high-performance and truly diverse one. Team at the core of success of any

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HTXL Pivots: ‘The right idea in the right place at the right time’

7 October 2019 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

It’s not often everything in a startup ecosystem changes in one year, but that’s exactly what happened at HighTechXL. In July 2018, HighTechXL pivoted from a high tech accelerator to a deep tech venture building effort … and an historic alliance with CERN to take to market the latest tech from the world’s largest particle

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Second cohort of Deep-Tech ventures starts venture-building program

24 September 2019 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

And so it begins …. HighTechXL’s second deep-tech venture-building cohort has launched with two intense days on 17 and 18 September. The clock starts now as the nine-month accelerator phase began with a structured sequence of brainstorming, 1-on-1 coaching, expert sessions and pitches. Or as Project X team member Colin Burke says, startup teams are

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FasTrackathon: ‘Are you in?’ HighTechXL matches talent with the latest tech

3 April 2019 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

As Constantine Demetriou wraps up his 1-minute pitch for his brand-new startup Hologaming, HighTechXL CEO Guus Frericks moves toward the impromptu stage and says, “Okay, commitment … are you in?” ‍Demetriou instantly says “Yes” … says it so quickly Guus doesn’t realize he’s answered the question. So, Guus says, “Will you move this concept forward?”

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Eindhoven startups benefit from HighTechXL’s first give back Monday

4 December 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

There’s talking about building your tech ecosystem. Then there’s staying late to help aspiring entrepreneurs, teams and founders. For free. The HighTechXL crew put in a late night on 26 November with the debut of its Give Back Monday program. Give Back Mondays are open to all startups that can use some expert advice, direction,

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HighTechXL’S Luis Oliveira brigs the future to Mozambique school

30 October 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

There are lots of ways to measure success. With a startup, it’s about deliverables, revenue and market penetrations. But for HighTechXL’s Luis Oliveira, the measure of success is how much you can change people’s lives. Not just change, but improve. When he’s not an acceleration manager for the Netherlands’ premier high-tech hardware accelerator, Luis is

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HighTechXL alumnus Sustonable announces equity investment from Gülermak Heavy Industries

ATO-GEAR, maker of sports wearable arion, raises new investment round to accelerate commercial rollout of its cuttinng-edge running AI

Betsy Lindsey with Aircision: A week in the non-stop life of an expat startup star

Incooling collaborates with GIGABYTE to develop a new class of two-phase liquid cooled servers

Diversity in high-performance teams

HTXL Pivots: ‘The right idea in the right place at the right time’

Second cohort of Deep-Tech ventures starts venture-building program

FasTrackathon: ‘Are you in?’ HighTechXL matches talent with the latest tech

Eindhoven startups benefit from HighTechXL’s first give back Monday

HighTechXL’S Luis Oliveira brigs the future to Mozambique school