Getting ready for the 11th edition of the Gerard & Anton Awards
Winners 101 to 110 of Gerard & Anton Awards will appear on stage at High Tech Campus on July 3. Nominations are welcome until June 1.
Published on May 4, 2025
Gerard & Anton Awards
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Mark it in your calendar and send us your nominations: the 11th edition of the Gerard & Anton Awards is coming up.
Every year, the Gerard & Anton Awards Committee spotlights ten promising startups from the Brainport region. These are ten innovative start-ups from which we expect great things in the years to come. For each of these startups, a Gerard & Anton Award is waiting: not only as a reward for recent development but especially as an incentive to move even further.
The previous ten editions show that this helps: the success rate of the former winners is far above average. That conclusion was firmly established in 2022 via the results of the comprehensive survey of former winners conducted by Strategy Unit and IO+. As every year, we will update the results on the day of the award ceremony.
Tickets and nominations
Tickets for the 11th Gerard & Anton Award show are available here.
Nominations are welcome at info @ gerardanton.com
The selection for the eleventh edition of this event takes place with the help of the audience and an expert jury led by Alderman Stijn Steenbakkers. The award ceremony is on July 3 at 17:00 on High Tech Campus Eindhoven. As in previous years, Beatrix Bos and Bert-Jan Woertman will host the award show. Registration for the event has started, and a contribution in the form of a nomination is already welcome: send it to by June 1st. From there, the jury will take it to the final 10.
History of the Gerard & Anton Award
Since 2014, we have had a total of 100 winners on stage. As of 2016, this is done under the name “Gerard & Anton Award,” after the best-known startup from the region. Across the board, the success rate of the winning startups is unprecedentedly high: where on average about 15-20% of startups are structurally successful, in this group it is more than 75%.
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Former winners include names like:
- Sorama (2014, founder Rick Scholte was awarded Engineer of the Year a few years later)
- Ioniqa (2015, had a rough period because of plastic recycling market challenges, but is recovering)
- Smart Photonics (2015, now driving the global photonics industry)
- LifeSense (2016, with the now globally sold sensor tab that can prevent incontinence)
- Sendcloud (2016, one of the few Dutch unicorns)
- Lightyear (2017, talking about the art of trial and error…)
- Xeltis (2017, with the revolutionary technology around the ‘growing along’ artificial heart)
- Hable (2019, enables blind people worldwide to easily use their smartphones)
- Carbyon (2020, busy making CO2 an opportunity rather than a problem)
- Axelera AI (2022, with now 100+ million in investment)
- GrAI Matter Labs (2023, which came under the wings of Snapchat immediately after the awards ceremony)
- Dembrane (2024, fixing democracy by using AI)
All the winners by year
All former winners of the Gerard & Anton Awards can be found on the Gerard & Anton site. Here we have listed them again:
2014
Flowid
Nemo Healthcare
Civolution
Cordian
Additive Industries
Progression Industry
Sapiens/ Medtronic
EFFECT Photonics
Sorama
Intrinsic-ID
2015
Utomik
SpinControl Gearing
Smart Photonics
Smart Robotics
No Food Wasted
Medimetrics
Manus VR
Ioniqa
Fistuca
Avular
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2016
IBIS Power
Sendcloud
BlueJay
Genkey
Etulipa
Team FAST / DENS
Lifesense
G-Therapeutics (ONWARD)
Microsure
Zens
2017
Xeltis
Tusti
Preceyes
Plasmacure
Lightyear
Hugsy
HAAK
Bitsensor
Bambi Medical
Amber
2018
ByFlow
Salvia
Pillow’s Willow
ATO Gear (ARION)
Zorgdoc
IPOS
Onera
Medapp
Stentit
Usono
2019
Chromodynamics
Ebusco
Hable
Incooling
Mentech
Ratio
Skotty
Spike (Eleo)
Taylor
Saldtech
2020
Carbyon
EZ factory
Roosh
Touchwind
XYZ Dynamics
Bright Photonics
Choice for Women
Orange NXT
Tech 2B
True Sim
(The 2021 ceremony didn’t happen because of COVID-19)
2022
Autoscriber
InPhocal
VBTI
Axelera AI
Ambagon
Cellcius
Lionvolt
Rift
Pharmi
InnoSign
2023
Antennex
VivArt-X
Integer Technologies
Mantispectra
GrAI Matter Labs
Gilbert Technologies (DTXL)
Alphabeats
Neople
Tibo Energy
2024
VitalFluid
Veridis
Upyther
SandGrain
Sirius Medical
Dembrane
TracXon
Whispp
Senergetics
SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions
Partners
The Gerard & Anton Awards are an initiative of the Gerard & Anton Foundation, co-sponsored by ECFG, Euflex, LIOC, EY, Rabobank, V.O. Patents & Trademarks, TWICE, Kadans Science Partner, Braventure, Lumo Labs, Gemeente Eindhoven, High Tech Campus, Philips, GEVA Vastgoed, Holland Innovative, DeepTechXL, and IO+.
