News Technology Venture building Accelerating news: A reverse hackathon with CERN 16 October 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment This article appeared in the October 8, 2018 issue of Accelerating News, a quarterly online publication for the accelerating community. It was written by Daniela Antonio, EU Communications officer at CERN. Six high-tech business teams were selected to explore business solutions for CERN technologies within the HighTechXL Accelerator Program. They presented their winning projects during Read more »
News People Technology Venture building The Byflow Story: more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie 20 September 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment byFlow is hot .. seriously, globally hot. Again. Nina Hoff, CEO of the Eindhoven-based 3D printer startup, recently spent 12 hours filming a morning show segment with CBS This Morning from the United States. THEN, Dutch media tracked her down and localized the byFlow story. And it’s quite a story, one that has more twists Read more »
Ecosystem News People Venture building ASML’S Rob van der Werf: An investment in startups is an investment in Eindhoven’s future 23 August 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment (Editor’s note: This interview with Rob van der Werf, Director of Strategic Business Development for ASML, took place at ASML’s headquarters in Veldhoven, a village at the heart of Brainport Eindhoven. Rob was named our Most Valuable Partner in 2017 during XL Day in July.) ASML builds the machines that make the digital age possible. Read more »
Impact News People Yvonne Boesten heads to Singapore for world’ largest innovation lab 28 May 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment Yvonne Boesten, acceleration manager, heads to Singapore this week for the world’s largest innovation lab designed to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yama Saraj, who is a social innovator at Vention Technologies on High Tech Campus, nominated Yvonne to attend. She is one of 1,000 carefully selected millennial leaders from more than Read more »
News People Betsy Lindsey on fundraising: from friends & family to venture capital and private equity 14 May 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment No one does anything without money. And nothing beats experience when it comes to raising money for innovative startups. Our HighTechXL team starts at the beginning, helping startup teams and corporate intrapreneurs understand the whole process of raising capital. Essential to HighTechXL’s success is our ability to draw on decades of experience. All of us Read more »
News People There’s no room for egos: how to de-risk your startup by building a high performing team 24 April 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment Risk defines the startup culture … bold people doing things that have never been done. But the trouble is, you can’t have a bunch of cowboys with conflicting egos and goals all trying to impose their opinions and not considering the team and company interests. Accelerators, VC or Angel investors find the team one of Read more »
News Technology Venture building HighTechXL startup accelerator spring 2018: Robotics, MedTech and red-hot chili peppers triumph at Eindhoven’s tech accelerator 23 March 2018 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment That’s the question put to 18 startup teams March 12 during HighTechXL’s Impact Finals in the new atrium at ASML’s Eindhoven headquarters. Those startups were vying for the right to enter the seventh cohort of the five-year-old HighTechXL incubator, an incubator that’s shaped 56 teams – soon to be 66 – and helped those companies Read more »
News Technology Bambi Medical: A voice for preterm babies 16 August 2016 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment In this interview with Bambi Medical CEO Fabio Bambang Oetomo, we learn about how his family-owned company is becoming an advocate for premature babies. Their first product, called the Bambi-BeltTM, allows comfortable and non-intrusive wireless monitoring of preterm infants. With the Bambi-BeltTM, they can contribute to the babies’ healthy brain development and speed of recovery. Read more »