Building deep-tech ventures to solve grand societal challenges.

Our unique recipe

We merge the unique skills of our global ecosystem with deep tech and entrepreneurship to build deep-tech ventures that tackle grand societal challenges. We support teams as they progress through our venture building program and connect them with essential resources, such as investors, advisors and customers.

People

Deep-tech venture building requires a bold spirit. We seek visionary entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving society’s most pressing challenges with cutting-edge technology.

Tech Tuesdays: After toughing it out for years, Usono is finally having its moment

(Editor's note: Usono is an alum of HighTechXL's hardware accelerator program before pivoting to deep-tech venture builder in 2018. This article was written by Terry Boyd and published on Dispatches Europe, who followed Usono's progress from the earliest days at HighTechXL. The article is part of Dispatches' Tech Tuesdays series, and it's reposted here with […]

Alumni Success Story: Accerion

A conversation with Accerion CEO Vincent Burg is a master class in business with an entrepreneur who’s taken a deep-tech startup and turned it into a global robotics player. ‍Not just that … in only eight years, Accerion went from a startup in HighTechXL’s accelerator program to a scale-up selling thousands of units to clients […]

From scaling mountains to scaling companies, Boudewijn Docter is always up for the adventure

Boudewijn Docter isn’t a guy who studied startups in some MBA class. This is a guy who lived the startup roller coaster for 12 years, who knows how to gut it out and lead while multitasking. Meet our new Chief Growth Officer. There’s a saying in The Valley that A Players like to work with […]

Technologies

We scout advanced technologies from world-renowned research institutions and tech companies, assess them based on patent position, novelty, manufacturability and knowledge transfer, then explore applications for each one to begin the venture-building process.

Tech scouting at HighTechXL: Building better companies is what we do

HighTechXL brings deep tech to life. With the goal of pushing impactful technologies to market, HighTechXL brings in advanced technologies and builds teams around them to make this happen. But how to find that technology? That’s where Earl Goetheer and the tech scouting team of HighTechXL come in. Earl Goetheer is the CTO of HighTechXL […]

What is a Photonic Integrated Circuit?

Editor's note: This article was originally published on the PhotonDelta website in December 2022. It is reposted here with their permission. A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a microchip containing two or more photonic components which form a functioning circuit, hence also called photonic chip. Photonic components utilize photons (or particles of light) as opposed […]

Alumni Success Story: Keiron Printing Technologies

Luck, or whatever you want to call it, is a funny thing. Bad luck can doom a startup even before it gets started, while good luck can bring the right people together to achieve great things. Take HighTechXL alumnus Keiron Printing Technologies, for example. The Keiron story starts with these two young guys – friends […]

Ecosystem

HighTechXL fosters deep-tech ventures aimed at solving societal challenges by leveraging a global ecosystem that includes the Eindhoven Startup Alliance, technology and program partners and a vast network of industry experts, advisors and investors. Our mission is to build impactful ventures, and our partners share our vision and collaborate with us towards achieving it.

New Event: Knowledge is Power, Cybersecurity, Secure Supply Chains and AI for Startups

An exclusive knowledge sharing session aimed at startups & scale-ups on cybersecurity, AI and AI-enabled threats, supply chain security Startup founders should stay vigilant and not assume they're immune to hackers while navigating cyberspace. HighTechXL and its partners invite you to join our "Knowledge Sharing Session" on the impact of cyber attacks on startups and […]

PhotonVentures raises €60 million to supercharge Europe’s photonics startups

(Editor's note: this press release was published on the PhotonDelta website August 31, 2023 and is reposted here with their permission.) EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – PhotonVentures has launched a venture capital fund aimed at early-stage photonic chip startups and scale ups. €60 million was raised in its first financing round with PhotonDelta as the lead investor alongside numerous […]

HealthTechXL gives extra impetus to startups in advanced medical technology in Brainport Eindhoven

A new venture building program for startups in the healthcare and MedTech sector, that is HealthTechXL. The partners involved are Philips, HighTechXL, the Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), DeepTechXL and Invest-NL. With the new program they want to give an extra boost to the creation, building and development of startups in advanced medical technology in the Brainport Eindhoven […]

Venture building

Our venture building approach is rigorous, with teams working on all aspects of the venture with support from our global network. We support teams throughout and after the program. Complicated, but worthwhile.

Join us for Career Expo December 8th

Join us at for a game-changing Career Expo! Register now and explore the dynamic world of startups, expand your network, and find a career opportunity or internship with real impact.If you're interested in the world of deep tech and have an entrepreneurial mindset, mark your calendars for December 8th! We throw open the doors and […]

PhotonDelta invests in Spectrik, an integrated photonics venture addressing nitrogen crisis

PhotonDelta has invested in deep-tech venture Spectrik, currently in HighTechXL’s venture building program. Spectrik is developing an integrated photonics gas sensor to measure real time ammonia emissions at livestock farms, including dairies and pork producers. By demonstrating the precise measurement of ammonia at the farm level to policymakers, officials and environmental services, Spectrik intends to […]

ExperienceXL opens the door to diverse crowd as intro to deep-tech venture building

ExperienceXL is in the books, and it turned out to be a big deal. This multi-event day started with an introductory Info Session for prospective co-founder considering HighTechXL’s venture-building approach, which brings together talent and tech. More than 100 attended ExperienceXL, some experiencing all the activities of the day. Info Session We kicked off the […]

Impact

We believe deep tech can fuel the transitions we need globally for sustainable development. To that end, we support deep-tech ventures that address global sustainable development challenges and require them to focus on at least one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

HighTechXL: Impact is at the heart of everything we do

We don’t want to build just any kind of startup. We build impactful, purpose-driven ventures that lead to substantial societal change. In fact, all founders or startups looking to enter our program must develop deep-tech hardware that addresses one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Period. No matter how much Unicorn potential it brings, […]

Alumni Success Story: Veridis

Founded in 2020, Veridis is the rare team that came to HighTechXL as an existing startup after the pivot to deep-tech venture builder. The four-person team has developed complex thermal analysis technology that allows recyclers to more accurately assess the quality of plastic anywhere in their recycling process. ‍That’s important, because in a world of […]

Carbyon wins $1M XPRIZE carbon removal milestone award

High Tech Campus Eindhoven-based Carbyon has been all over the news, all over the world, with their $1 million Milestone Award in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition from the Musk Foundation. But the coverage has lacked one very important detail – Carbyon really came together at HighTechXL, Eindhoven’s deep-tech venture building program. With TechCrunch, Innovation […]