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High-tech startups in the Northern Netherlands have gained a significant new partner to support their growth. Today, Future Tech Ventures (FTV) was officially launched at the Startup Festival in Groningen. This proof-of-concept fund, valued at approximately €20 million, was established through a collaboration between Triade, RUG Ventures, NV NOM, and Investeringsfonds Groningen. Over the next […]

Text by Daan Marselis, Trouw Groningen Company Builds a ‘Reservoir’ for Energy Storage Ocean Grazer is developing a ‘battery’ that can store large amounts of energy using hydropower. Frits Bliek has his eye on three former sand excavation sites—three massive pits in the ground that have now filled with water. He’s not yet revealing the

Source: Ancora Health Preventive healthcare startup Ancora Health partners with the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) to advance the adoption and implementation of value-based care. Together, by combining both Ancora Health’s expertise in digital care and ICHOM’s leadership in outcomes-based care, the partnership contributes to reshaping healthcare in line with the Quadruple Aim.

BioBTX secures over € 80 million to launch world’s first renewable aromatics plant BioBTX, a pioneering developer of renewable aromatics technology in the Netherlands, has secured over €80 million to launch its first commercial-scale plant. This investment will fund the world’s first renewable chemicals plant utilizing BioBTX’s innovative ICCP Technology to produce sustainable aromatics (BTX)

We are pleased to announce prof. dr. Frederik Dikkers and prof. dr. Tjark Ebels as the Mystery Speakers for the Innovation Day 2024! Prof. dr. Dikkers and prof. dr. Ebels are the minds behind the Fused Button Battery Holding – a company geared towards the prevention of suffering of thousands of children each year. Applications

MemoryLab, ETS Global and the University of Groningen receive a grant from the European Union to develop personalized, adaptive and inclusive knowledge assessment and learning environments MemoryLab, ETS Global and the University of Groningen have been awarded a Valorisation grant from the SNN (Northern Netherlands Alliance) to develop a digital environment for personalised, adaptive and

Marnix Pool Friday, February 23, 2024. Our former director Marnix Pool passed away. Marnix led the RUG Holding Company (RHM), now known as RUG Ventures, from 1998 to 2018 after years of working at the University of Groningen. During these 20 years, he provided advice, support, and funding to numerous startups. Marnix excelled in this

Groningen-based startup Tispa Medical has signed a Joint Ownership Agreement with Isala Ziekenhuizen to remove xylene and formalin from the pathology lab within the hospitals. Due to its harmful effects on the environment, formalin has already been banned in the Netherlands. Hospitals however form the exception: under permit, the carcinogenic substance can be used. The

Source: Business Generator Groningen CoRe Pro B.V. has recently signed a license agreement with the University of Groningen, making it an official UG spin-off. The signing marks the start of the commercial development of sustainable solutions for thermochemical conversion of renewable materials. CoRe Pro B.V. builds on the ideas of Professor Erik Heeres of the

€ 5 million financing for groundbreaking quantum dot technology from QDI Systems The Groningen-based high-tech company, QDI Systems, is receiving over € 5 million to further scale its groundbreaking quantum dot technology for both the medical sector and new markets. The funding round was led by NOM, along with previous investors Carduso Capital, RUG Ventures,