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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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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,

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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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

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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.

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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

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

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

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