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Carbyon unveils world’s fastest Direct Air Capture (DAC) machine

18 September 2025 / 15 July 2026 by sofia | Leave a Comment

Carbyon’s first machine paves the way for scalable and affordable carbon capture with a game-changing solution in Direct Air Capture (Editor’s note: this press release was published on our Alumnus’ website Carbyon on September 18, 2025 and is reposted here with their permission. See original article) Eindhoven, September 17, 2025 – Carbyon, a Dutch pioneer in

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Exploring the latest technologies for the SPRING cohort 2025: APPLY NOW!

15 January 2025 by admin | Leave a Comment

Discover Your Co-Founder Potential! Are you ready to dive into the world of innovation and entrepreneurship? We’re on the lookout for potential co-founders (CEOs, CTOs, and CBOs)! We’re seeking experts in business management, microelectronics, material science, chemical engineering, electrochemistry, quantum security, photonics, and related fields. Explore cutting-edge technologies from major Tech Institutes HighTechXL is the

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Aircision Connecting Beyond Boundaries: The City of Light’s First Optical Wireless Communications Link over 5 km

12 March 2024 by admin | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note:This announcement was published on Aircision’s LinkedIn page on February 28th and is reposted here with their permission. Eindhoven, Netherlands — In a quantum leap toward seamless and secure connectivity, Eindhoven unveils its first state-of-the-art Terrestrial Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) Test Bed. This collaborative effort between Aircision, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and CUbIQ

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Carbyon finds missing piece of the puzzle: ultra-fast carbon capture process proven with an energy demand below 2,500 kWh/ton

12 December 2023 by admin | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: this press release was published on our Alumnus’ website Carbyon on November 28, 2023 and is reposted here with their permission. See original article) Eindhoven, the Netherlands (November 28, 2023) – Dutch Direct Air Capture (DAC) company Carbyon has successfully proven that their unique fast-swing process is able to capture CO2 using less than 2,500

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RVO: Startup? Wake up! This is what you need to know about patents

8 December 2023 by admin | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: In this blog post the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), breaks down common misconceptions about patents. This blog post was published on their website and is re-posted here with their permission. As you might expect, at the Netherlands Patent Office, we know a lot about patents. In our interactions with startups, we encounter quite

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Tech scouting at HighTechXL: Building better companies is what we do

5 May 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

HighTechXL brings deep tech to life. With the goal of pushing impactful technologies to market, HighTechXL brings in advanced technologies and builds teams around them to make this happen. But how to find that technology? That’s where Earl Goetheer and the tech scouting team of HighTechXL come in. Earl Goetheer is the CTO of HighTechXL

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What is a Photonic Integrated Circuit?

3 May 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the PhotonDelta website in December 2022. It is reposted here with their permission. A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a microchip containing two or more photonic components which form a functioning circuit, hence also called photonic chip. Photonic components utilize photons (or particles of light) as opposed

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Alumni Success Story: Keiron Printing Technologies

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

Luck, or whatever you want to call it, is a funny thing. Bad luck can doom a startup even before it gets started, while good luck can bring the right people together to achieve great things. Take HighTechXL alumnus Keiron Printing Technologies, for example. The Keiron story starts with these two young guys – friends

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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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