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After a successful second round of funding late 2021, we have had a quick sit-down with COO/CMO Richard Rushby, telling us what the company is all about. From early-stage startup to a company with a bright future in a few years – Get to know SG Papertronics. The Start A few years ago, two PhD-students

For geologist Wijnand van Eijndthoven from Groningen, a new, exciting period will begin. Ever since 2017, he has been working on a groundbreaking method to automatically predict the permeability of rocks in the deep underground on the basis of mineralogy with his company Deep Atlas. This year, Van Eijndthoven hopes to bring the technology to

INNOVATION CENTER CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING Last week, construction of the Innovation Center Chemistry and Engineering was completed at Campus Groningen. Construction started a little over a year ago and after a year filled with hard work by Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma and installer ITBB, the official opening will take place early 2022.  The Building In total,

FROM THE HEART OF SCIENCE, WITH COLLABORATION ON ALL LEVELS, SCALING UP TO IMPACT! Last week marked the start of ‘Science to Impact’, a movement with the aim to enlarge scientific knowledge by collaborating from the heart of science on all levels. All parties that contribute to the use of scientific knowledge in practice are

UNIVERSITY OF THE NORTH – UNIVERSITEIT VAN HET NOORDEN Five educational institutions come together to create continuous learning tracks for students in the northern Netherlands. The University of Groningen, UMCG, NHL Stenden, Van Hall Larenstein and Hanze University of Applied Sciences join hands to not only combine knowledge, but also to increase connections with business.

VENTURELAB WEEKEND The next edition of the VentureLab Weekend will take place on 19-21 November 2021, aiming to help aspiring entrepreneurs sound and test their ideas, develop business models and pitch to an experienced jury. The event is a collaboration between the University of Groningen and it’s accelerator VentureLab North. Format The VentureLab Weekend is

ANCORA HEALTH The Groningen-based start-up Ancora Health shares the first results of its preventive healthcare programme after ten-month participation. The results show that the programme has a positive effect on people’s health, also in the long term. The new, scientifical way of preventive health care shows a significant decrease in lifestyle-related health problems. Oftentimes, people

ARC VENTURES Three AI students, successfully launching their product from scratch in less than 2 years. Although it sounds like some kind of fairy tale, it is the success story of Arc Ventures. The three founders of the company, Niclas, Tom and Moritz, got together and started working on their first prototypes halfway through 2019.

CLOSING INVESTMENT ROUND – SENCILIA BV RUG Ventures and Triade invested in Sencilia BV, an early-stage med tech startup co-founded by dr. Amar M. Kamat (managing director) and dr. Ajay G.P. Kottapalli (chief scientific advisor). The company will commercialize the innovative micro/nano technology research performed by dr. Kamat and dr. Kottapalli at the RUG. Sencilia