Amsterdam-based ACE (Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship), the university business incubator, announced on Wednesday the list of startups selected for the Spring ’23 edition of the incubation program — ACE Cohort Spring 23.
The program kicked off on Monday, April 24, under the guidance of Maria Angel-Sitruk, with ten tech and science-based startups and 18 academic founders.
Here’s the list of startups that have made it to the Spring ’23 of the ACE incubation programme.
Athena
Founders: Anastasia Soloveva
Athena is an educational platform for women about personal finance: from monthly budgeting to investments. It empowers women to take control of their finances by educating and navigating them through the complexity of the financial world
FarmToHome
Founders: Andrii Roizin, Mark Kravchuk, Maksym Dryhval
FarmToHome is an online marketplace that connects farmers with buyers. The platform completely eliminates intermediaries between the farmer and the buyer.
The platform aims to revolutionises local food sourcing, bringing fresh, sustainable produce directly from farmers to customers’ doorstep.
Freightdog
Founders: Artem Golovin, Joost Cassee
Freightdog is digitising processes and communication for small to medium-sized freight forwarders. On average, the company claims to reduce the time spent on shipment tracking from one hour to just five minutes a day.
Hotelshousing
Founders: Kirill Smirenko, Mayke Hoynck van Papendrecht
Hotelshousing is a B2B platform that supports ex-pats and companies in finding extended stays in Amsterdam-based hotels, with a focus on relocation. The platform allows customers to book an extended stay between 10 days and 6 months in the best Amsterdam-based hotels, in 3 easy steps.
Jimme
Founders: Dillon Hugers, Peer van Andel
Jimme is a marketplace and management tool for personal trainers and sports enthusiasts.
LOF Branding
Founders: Lois Mobach, Florian Haberler
LOF Branding is a company that offers branding services with a focus on tailoring a brand specifically to the desires of the target audience. With a data-driven approach and complete transparency, the company aims to help businesses achieve superior performance.
SangiuOptics
Founders: Giulia Giubertoni, Sander Woutersen
A label-free method that makes it possible to separate the optical spectra of the molecules or particles of different sizes that are present in a mixed solution.
Sanical Health
Founders: Niels Aarnoudse
Sanical Health is a digital prevention clinic that aims to promote a healthier lifestyle by accelerating the adoption of digital health tools. By utilising these tools, the clinic intends to transition towards prevention and facilitate a simpler, healthier way of living for individuals.
Skendy
Founders: Orbay Topal, Mozes van de Kar
Skendy is a new AI-powered application designed to simplify personal administration tasks and save time. The platform lets users scan letters, extract payment info, and categorise them automatically in folders of their choice.
Visual AI Marketing
Founders: Shaodi You
Visual AI Marketing is an online sales and marketing tool particularly focusing on the fashion industry.
ACE: Stimulating entrepreneurship
ACE is the university business incubator in Amsterdam, part of the Amsterdam-based knowledge institutions — University of Amsterdam (UvA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), and Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC).
ACE stimulates entrepreneurship among (graduate) students, researchers, university professors, and academics by offering training, support, and access to an extensive network of mentors, entrepreneurs, and business professionals.
ACE thus empowers Amsterdam-based innovators to create high-impact ventures of the future.
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