The Academic Startup Competition is an initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, Techleap, Universities of the Netherlands, and the NFU. This year, no less than seven startups from the UG and the UMCG made it to the top 40: IMChip, Fused Button Battery Holding, Powerchainger, MimeCure, Bioprex Medical, Limosa Immunodiagnostics, and QT Sense. Last year, startups Sencilia and MemoryLab made it through.
Prof. Tamalika Banerjee, Ruben Hamming-Green, Saurabh Soni, Azminul Jaman and Ernst Jacobs develop energy efficient computing chips for the chip industry to accelerate AI in a sustainable way.
Dr. Luke van der Koog, Prof. Reinoud Gosens, Prof. Anika Nagelkerke, and Prof. Erik Frijlink
revolutionize the quality of life of thousands of patients suffering from COPD by MC002; an active fragment of the Mimecan protein, that promotes the regeneration of alveolar epithelial cell and lung tissue.
Prof. Romana Schirhagl
Unlocks single-cell biological insights with Nano-MRI precision.
Hans Biemans, Vice President of the Board of the University of Groningen, says: ‘We are proud of the fact that no less than seven Groningen-based start-ups made it to the top 40, and that IMChip, MimeCure, and QT Sense are now among the top 10 most promising start-ups in the Netherlands. It shows that in Groningen, we have the world-class education, research, and facilitating ecosystem to support and position researchers with an entrepreneurial mindset. The start-ups offer innovative solutions to today's societal challenges. Therefore, we wish these seven start-ups every success in the coming years.’
The UMCG Innovation Center and the Business Generator are pleased to play a supporting role in the innovative journey of the start-ups! We look forward to working together with the stakeholders towards future milestones.
IMChip, MimeCure, and QT Sense will participate in a trade mission to Silicon Valley, and on June 2, the 10 winners will be in the spotlight at the Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) masterclass at Brainport Eindhoven.
