The Hague-based UNIIQ, an funding fund centered on the proof-of-concept part, introduced on Tuesday that it has invested €2.5M in varied corporations and entered right into a partnership with TNO, an impartial organisation for utilized analysis.
The checklist of corporations consists of:
iProtics – The corporate seeks to remodel the therapy of most cancers and auto-immune issues. iProtics goals to develop selective immunoproteasome inhibitors that focus on disease-causing cells whereas preserving the integrity of wholesome tissues.
Bionomic – An agtech startup specialising in enhancing crop high quality and sustainability by utilising superior molecular strategies to manage pathogens.
Passionfruit – The corporate focuses on automating ESG reporting by an AI-powered workflow administration software. The platform automates as much as 90% of duties round compliance questions and helps corporations to answer advanced buyer and auditor requests quicker, extra effectively, and with extra perception.
Hypersoniq – An electrochemical sensor expertise firm that may present real-time and full insights into the standard of liquids to scale back environmental influence, save value and guarantee compliance.
GEHECO – The corporate is creating a extra compact and inexpensive answer for laying wells, permitting installations in places the place conventional strategies will not be possible, and serving to drive the transition to CO2-neutral heating methods.
Spatialise – Spatialise has created a soil well being monitor that makes use of satellite tv for pc knowledge and AI to estimate soil vitamins in farmland topsoils.
XS Improvements – The corporate has developed Dynamic AVF, a patented implantable gadget designed to manage excessive blood circulate and deal with the issues of hemodialysis therapy.
“The brand new corporations in our portfolio (>75 corporations) signify the power of the area within the subject of deep tech, software program, and life sciences,” says Jasper Geselschap, Fund Supervisor at UNIIQ.
The announcement was made on the InnovationQuarter occasion at Euromast in Rotterdam.
In accordance with Geselschap, every of the startups is ready to obtain an funding of €350,000, contributing to a wide range of societal challenges akin to sustainable power, medical expertise, and synthetic intelligence.
However, UNIIQ additionally introduced a brand new partnership with TNO to information tech startups at an early stage within the growth and profitable commercialisation of their applied sciences.
TNO is an impartial analysis organisation based mostly within the Netherlands. It affords a variety of superior technological and scientific options. TNO’s major focus is on utilized science, supporting business and authorities with revolutionary, sensible data.
Hans Boumans, Director of Tech Switch at TNO, says, “With this partnership, we need to help startups and TNO spin-offs in Zuid-Holland much more strongly in securing their first funding in order that promising technological improvements can attain the market quicker and with extra influence.”
UNIIQ: Targeted on “proof-of-concept
UNIIQ is a €50M funding fund centered on the “proof-of-concept” part. UNIIQ assists entrepreneurs in South Holland in bringing their revolutionary concepts to market extra shortly.
The fund is managed by a workforce of funding specialists, together with Innovation Quarter, Leiden College, Erasmus MC, and TU Delft.
Since 2021, UNIIQ has dedicated sources in Early Section Financing (VFF), and an software for VFF is in accordance with the confirmed UNIIQ funding methodology. UNIIQ is made potential partly by the EU.
