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Join us for Career Expo December 8th

15 November 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Join us at for a game-changing Career Expo! Register now and explore the dynamic world of startups, expand your network, and find a career opportunity or internship with real impact. If you’re interested in the world of deep tech and have an entrepreneurial mindset, mark your calendars for December 8th! We throw open the doors

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PhotonDelta invests in Spectrik, an integrated photonics venture addressing nitrogen crisis

1 November 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

PhotonDelta has invested in deep-tech venture Spectrik, currently in HighTechXL’s venture building program. Spectrik is developing an integrated photonics gas sensor to measure real time ammonia emissions at livestock farms, including dairies and pork producers. By demonstrating the precise measurement of ammonia at the farm level to policymakers, officials and environmental services, Spectrik intends to

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Tech Tuesdays: After toughing it out for years, Usono is finally having its moment

12 October 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: Usono is an alum of HighTechXL’s hardware accelerator program before pivoting to deep-tech venture builder in 2018. This article was written by Terry Boyd and published on Dispatches Europe, who followed Usono’s progress from the earliest days at HighTechXL. The article is part of Dispatches’ Tech Tuesdays series, and it’s reposted here with

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How a Dutch venture builder is accelerating European deep tech

3 October 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

(Editor’s note: This article was written by Jennifer Schenker and was originally published on The Innovator website. It is published here with their permission. Read the original post.) When researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), developed a cooling system for particles traveling at light speed through the world’s largest and highest-energy collider,

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Astrape Networks secures €1.6 million in pre-seed funding to develop photonics-powered ‘sustainable data center’

14 September 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

12 September 2023 EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – Astrape Networks – an innovative tech startup that uses unique integrated photonics to build faster and more sustainable optical networks – has secured a pre-seed funding round of €1.6 million from a consortium of investors and loan providers, including Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), Rabobank, Brabant Startup Fonds, TTT

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HealthTechXL gives extra impetus to startups in advanced medical technology in Brainport Eindhoven

13 September 2023 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

A new venture building program for startups in the healthcare and MedTech sector, that is HealthTechXL. The partners involved are Philips, HighTechXL, the Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), DeepTechXL and Invest-NL. With the new program they want to give an extra boost to the creation, building and development of startups in advanced medical technology in the Brainport Eindhoven

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HighTechXL and BOM launch special program for Healthcare, Medtech Ventures

13 June 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

HighTechXL and BOM join forces to offer program for healthcare and medtech ventures, HealthTechXL. Yesterday was the official kick-off of HealthTechXL, a joint program of BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) and HighTechXL. The program focuses on creating, building and developing healthcare and medtech startups from the ground up. During this first info session, Stephan Hulsbergen introduced

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FasTrackathon 2023: The best one yet?

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

The first FasTrackathon of 2023, held April 14th, was among the best we’ve ever held! The office was positively buzzing with excitement as 11 teams spent the afternoon brainstorming application areas and business ideas to take 7 advanced technologies to market. This is venture-building in the making. We scout deep tech from research institutes and tech

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Astrape and Senergetics ‘fly the nest’

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

Astrape and Senergetics have flown the nest! Both deep-tech ventures passed their final Gate and have officially completed the HighTechXL venture builder program. Congratulations, teams! “Starting and building a venture is scary, exciting and exhausting all at the same time,” said Robin van Scheijndel. “I’m thrilled to see the people who were introduced to the HighTechXL

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Funding opportunities for integrated photonics startups

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

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the PhotonDelta website and is reposted here with their permission. PhotonDelta announced in April 2022 they had landed €1.1 billion in public and private investment to transform the Netherlands into the leader of next generation semiconductors. PhotonDelta’s mission is to invest in 200 integrated photonics startups. PhotonDelta

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