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Alumni Success Story: Aircision

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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

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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

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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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CERN Accelerating News: from laser alignment to laser communication

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

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

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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

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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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Accelerating news: A reverse hackathon with CERN

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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

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The Byflow Story: more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie

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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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HighTechXL startup accelerator spring 2018: Robotics, MedTech and red-hot chili peppers triumph at Eindhoven’s tech accelerator

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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

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