EFFECT Photonics, a developer of highly touted DWDM optical communications products, has raised €31m in Series C funding. This adds to an already impressive Series B round of funding worth over eight million euros. Their fiber optic variants have already…
Kurs Orbital is the name of the company that is developing a pilot spacecraft purely for on-site maintenance of satellites in space. Kurs Orbital is led in part by Volodymyr Usov, the former head of the Ukrainian space agency. He…
Lightyear, a car manufacturer from Helmond, The Netherlands, has secured an investment of €40 million. This financing round was led by an investment vehicle from a Swiss family. With this money in its pocket, Lightyear can continue to grow and…
The expression “What goes up must come down” is often taken figuratively, but in Scotland it really does refer to the physics of gravity. In the Port of Edinburgh, a pilot rig has been under construction for a week now…
What is he proud of? Are there things he would have done differently? And what can we expect from Brainport Industries in the coming years? John Blankendaal already saw the potential of the manufacturing industry during his time at the…
“Every cup of Nespresso coffee will be carbon neutral by 2022,” I hear George Clooney say on TV. You hear these kinds of claims more and more, Nespresso is not the only company by far. Total and Shell both promise…
Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Radboudumc have succeeded in growing a lifelike piece of bone tissue from human stem cells. This is the first ‘organoid’ of a bone, a simplified version of the original. The research…
The end of the corona pandemic is in sight thanks to mass vaccinations. Although the bulk of the population still has to wait for their vaccine, there is much speculation as to how societies will eventually return to full restaurants,…
The heartbeat of an unborn child says a lot about the child’s development, such as congenital heart defects. That is why the heart rate is measured regularly, both during pregnancy and during childbirth. At present, obstetricians and gynecologists work with…
With a Perspectief grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) totalling €3.4 million, the hDMT consortium will be able to bring the concept of an organ on a microchip to market and develop a universal standard for it. hDMT is…