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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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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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FasTrackathon: How HighTechXL pulled off its first virtual hackathon in 9 days

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This post was first published on Dispatches Europe March 31, 2020. It is reposted here with their permission You can read it here on Dispatches Europe. This FasTrackathon post is part of Dispatches’ Tech Tuesday series. Dispatches Europe is a HighTechXL partner. For most companies, there’s a “before” the coronavirus pandemic and an “after” the

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Amber doubles the number of car-sharing hubs with recent investment from BOM Brabant ventures

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(Editor’s Note: This post was published on the Amber website January 30, 2020. Amber is an alumnus of the HighTechXL accelerator program and just announced a round of funding to double the number of car-sharing hubs from 70 to 140 with a recent round of investment.) Amber, the Eindhoven provider of business shared cars, is

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HighTechXL alumnus Sustonable announces equity investment from Gülermak Heavy Industries

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HighTechXL alumnus Sustonable announces investment round and plans to open a factory near Ankara, Turkey. (Editor’s Note: Sustonable is an alumnus of the 2017 HighTechXL accelerator program. Sustonable received investments from BOM and countertop manufacturer Dekker on-stage at XL Day. Sustonable is planning to open a factory by early summer 2020 to begin production of

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ATO-GEAR, maker of sports wearable arion, raises new investment round to accelerate commercial rollout of its cuttinng-edge running AI

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Editor’s note: This post was published on techstartups.com on January 28, 2020. ATO-GEAR finished the HighTechXL high-tech hardware accelerator program in 2016. ATO-GEAR, a wearable electronics startup for B2C and B2B sports markets, announced today that it has closed an investment round with Dutch high-tech venture capital fund Innovation Industries. Earlier investors, the BOM Brabant

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Betsy Lindsey with Aircision: A week in the non-stop life of an expat startup star

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Week in the Life of a Startup: Former HighTechXL Investor Relations and Managing Director Betsy Lindsey joins startup Aircision. Note: This article was originally published on Dispatches Europe. It is reposted here with permission. When you talk about startup teams, the assumption is you’re talking about young people in their 20s. And in the United

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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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