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Germany-based Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH invests 3.5 million euros in Incooling

16 January 2023 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: Incooling was one of the first teams to complete the HighTechXL deep-tech venture building program in 2019. They announced their investment and distributed the following press release on January 16, 2023. It is published here with their permission. Eindhoven, The Netherlands – Incooling, an Eindhoven-based company, has closed a 3.5-million-euro pre-Series A investment

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Aon and HighTechXL enter partnership to make startups and scale-ups risk-aware and insurable

18 November 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: this press release was distributed by Aon and is translated with DeepL and published here with their permission. Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm, is entering into a long-term partnership with HighTechXL to help startups and scale-ups develop their risk management. During the nine-month program, both parties will learn how

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RVO provides valuable patent knowledge to deep-tech ventures

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

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency, or RVO, is a valuable partner in our powerful ecosystem. The agency works closely with deep-tech ventures in the venture building program as well as our alumni. HighTechXL builds ventures based on advanced technologies from world-renowned institutions such as CERN, European Space Agency, TNO, PORT (Poland), Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (Canada),

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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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Alphabeats receives €1.5 million, inPhocal receives €2 million in DeepTechXL first investment round

28 September 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

It’s been an exciting two weeks for deep-tech ventures as Alphabeats and inPhocal receive funding from DeepTechXL’s first investment round. Alphabeats closed a €1.5 million investment round led by DeepTechXL and supported by LUMO Labs. The investment allows Alphabeats to focus on taking their patented neurofeedback technology to the next level and developing their digital

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HighTechXL and PhotonDelta: building integrated photonics ventures

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

PhotonDelta and HighTechXL are forging a strong partnership to advance integrated photonics technologies and build deep-tech ventures to take the tech to market. In so doing, we also strengthen the integrated photonics ecosystem, folding in stakeholders across the globe. It’s a match made in heaven. How does this partnership work? We’ve laid it out in

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Unique Dutch collaboration between private tech sector, Brabant region and impact investors results in new Dutch deep-tech fund of €100 million

24 May 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

“Deep-tech” is a category of advanced enabling technologies developed at research facilities to address the grand societal challenges as defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in the areas of healthcare, energy transition and sustainability, security and food. Deep-tech innovation enables long-term sustainable economic success and creates high value-add employment in the advanced high-tech manufacturing

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Alumni Success Story: inPhocal

30 March 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

It was one of the more inauspicious beginnings in the history of Eindhoven startups, followed by one of the most dramatic pivots. The first iteration of inPhocal was a tech-heavy team, strong in physics and engineering, but not so strong on the business side. The team saw all the potential applications of the laser-based marking

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HighTechXL partners with EP&C Patent Attorneys to support deep-tech ventures

7 February 2022 / 8 July 2025 by Christos Bousis | Leave a Comment

Patent agency EP&C Patent Attorneys has partnered with HighTechXL, a venture builder for deep-tech startups in the Eindhoven region. HighTechXL builds teams of entrepreneurs and tech talents to work on the most advanced technologies in the world. EP&C will be a partner in HighTechXL’s program that develops startups into independent businesses over a period of

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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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