European Innovation Council (EIC), on Monday, October 21, announced 72 scale-ups from 24 European countries that have been selected to join the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Scaling Club.
The scale-up list was announced at the Scale 100 Forum, a community event held on 21-22 October in Athens, Greece.
The selected deep tech companies fall within six predefined market sector opportunities:
- Agri & Food Tech
- Batteries & Energy Storage
- Cardiovascular Therapies
- Clean Fuels & Hydrogen
- New Biotech Platforms
- New Space Tech
Besides, the EIC announced the launch of the EIC Trusted Investor Network, which brings together over 50 of Europe’s top technology venture capitalists and investors.
The network’s goal is to speed up co-investments with the EIC Fund and offer more financing to high-potential startups chosen by the EIC.
What is the EIC Scaling Club?
The EIC Scaling Club is a community of over 120 European deep-tech scale-ups. They have the potential to build top-notch businesses and solve global challenges.
They unite with investors, corporate innovators, and other industry stakeholders to foster growth.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership with Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
The EIC Scaling Club will assist the hand-picked deep tech scale-ups with fundraising support, leadership mentoring and coaching, corporate partnership identification and matchmaking, media visibility, recruitment, and much more.
The Club aims to accelerate the growth of all its members, to scale 20 per cent of them into unicorns.
Companies for the EIC Scaling Club membership are nominated by various stakeholders – investors, mentors, agencies and public funds, media, and other industry experts.
The final decision rests with the investors’ jury, which seeks scale-ups with strong management, innovative technology, a robust market strategy, and a high potential for meaningful, scalable impact.
The priority is given to diverse teams and sustainable growth trajectories.
“Our EIC Scaling Club proudly supports a diverse group of 120 companies, actively operating across ten prominent deep tech markets, which have collectively raised over €3.4B to date. With the backing of more than 400 dedicated club members, these companies are well-positioned to address key global challenges within their respective industries, and I have no doubt they will continue to grow and realise their full potential,” says Teresa Cunha, Lead at EIC Scaling Club.
Here are the companies from the Netherlands that were accepted to the EIC Scaling Club on October 21st, 2024.
Vivici
HQ: Delft
Sector: Agri & Food Tech
Vivici is a B2B ingredient provider. It offers food and beverage companies animal-free dairy proteins crafted through precision fermentation – an innovative blend of traditional fermentation and advanced biotechnology.
AMT Medical
HQ: Utrecht
Sector: Cardiovascular Therapies
AMT Medical has developed a minimally invasive medical device for heart bypass surgery. It is based on the ELANA Bypass, invented by neurosurgeon Prof. Dr. C.A.F.
Tulleken and his research team at the UMCU. The technique is designed to make traditional heart bypass procedures faster, safer, easier, and less invasive for the patient.
Battolyser Systems
HQ: Schiedam
Sector: Clean Fuels & Hydrogen
Battolyser Systems develops the world’s first fully flexible alkaline electrolyser with battery functionality for green hydrogen — Battolyser. The company’s technology can switch on and off following intermittent renewable energy.
Sensius
HQ: Rotterdam
Sector: New Biotech Platforms
Sensius is an Erasmus MC Spinoff company developing novel cancer treatments using hyperthermia.
The company claims to have created a personalised, deep-penetrating thermotherapy solution, using proprietary technology and software, that can optimise the treatment regimen for each cancer patient.
Sensius’ thermotherapy solution has been designed to fit seamlessly into the workflow of cancer patients undergoing treatment with radiotherapy.
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