Catalyze Group

🚀 Looking for investments to boost your Life Sciences & Health innovation? Great news! Catalyze is now an official Innovation Broker for Health~Holland. This means life sciences & health entrepreneurs in the Netherlands can now apply for a voucher covering 50% of the costs for our Investment Support Service, up to a maximum of €5,000! What does this mean? Our Investment Support Service helps you prepare your company for a funding round, increasing your chances of securing investment and connecting with the right investors. What do you get? ✅ A detailed advisory report – improving your business plan, storytelling, competitive positioning, commercialisation strategy, and pitch deck.  ✅ A tailored list of potential investors – aligned with your company’s funding needs. Who can benefit? Dutch Life Sciences & Health SMEs working on innovations at any TRL level and seeking investment opportunities. 💡Maximise your chances of securing funding with this unique voucher opportunity! Ready to take the next step? Contact Julia Jongejans to learn more. #Catalyze #InvestmentSupport #HealthHolland #LifeSciences #Funding #Innovation

🇨🇭Elevate your innovation with Swiss funding opportunities! Are you seeking support to advance your research or innovation? Switzerland's Innosuisse offers several key grant programmes, including Innovation Projects, Start-up Innovation Projects (SIP), and the Innovation Cheque. They help develop groundbreaking products, enhance services, or pioneer collaborative research. Explore these key opportunities:   1. Innovation Projects: Support for science-based innovation projects aiming to develop new products, services, or processes. 2. Start-up Innovation Projects: Funding for start-ups with significant innovation potential, focusing on application-oriented research to prepare for initial market entry. 3. Innovation Cheque: A voucher worth up to CHF 15,000 for SMEs or organizations with fewer than 250 full-time employees to conduct preliminary studies, such as assessing the feasibility of innovative ideas in collaboration with a Swiss research partner.   💬 Unsure which programme aligns with your project? Contact Giovanna Nasilli, Ph.D or Anna Pont Soler to discuss the best fit.   #SwissGrants #InnovationFunding #Innosuisse #InnovationProjects #StartupInnovation #InnovationCheque

🌱 Celebrating our EIC Accelerator winners: Nature Robots 🇩🇪 Nature Robots is revolutionising agriculture with the world’s first fully autonomous farming system. Their AI-driven technology integrates robotics, precision agronomic planning, and real-time monitoring to enable scalable regenerative agriculture. Unlike conventional solutions, Nature Robots’ system navigates in full three-dimensional space, adapting to complex farming environments like market gardens and agroforestry. By reducing labor-intensive tasks and optimizing crop cycles, they are paving the way for a more sustainable and productive agricultural future. Nature Robots was awarded €6.5M blended finance from the EIC Accelerator October 2024 round. Sebastian Pütz, CEO of Nature Robots, commented, "With the support of the EIC Accelerator award, we can accelerate the development of our fully autonomous farming system, scaling regenerative agriculture in ways that weren’t possible before."  We are proud to have supported Nature Robots in their journey towards securing this award. 🔗 Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eViWXnFE Malte kleine Piening Sven Lake Gerrit Woeckner #NatureRobots #EICAccelerator #RegenerativeAgriculture #AgriTech #Catalyze

🇳🇱✨ The NWO Photonics 2025 call is open now! Are you working on cutting-edge photonic technologies? This funding opportunity from the NWO (Dutch Research Council) supports groundbreaking research projects that advance photonics and its applications across various sectors. The call covers applied and theoretical physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and material and life sciences. Applicants must first submit a letter of intent by 27 March, before the full proposal deadline on 29 April. 📲Interested in applying to this call? Our team can support you in preparing a winning proposal! Contact Thomas Kooij to learn more. #Photonics #Innovation #NWO #Funding #Research #Technology

🌍 Meet our team on the road! March is packed with exciting industry events, and we are looking forward to insightful discussions, valuable connections, and new opportunities to collaborate. You can find us at: 📍 MWC Barcelona (March 3-6, 🇪🇸 Barcelona) – Vlad Grecu will be attending this leading connectivity event, bringing together industry leaders in mobile technology and innovation. 📍 Aquatech (March 11-14, 🇳🇱 Amsterdam) – Petrik Buitenhuis and Valentina Quiroga Fonseca will be engaging with the global water sector to explore the latest innovations in sustainable water solutions. 📍 Hello Tomorrow (March 13-14, 🇫🇷 Paris) – Mo Ghashghavi, PhD will join this deep-tech gathering, connecting with pioneers driving the future of science and technology. 📍 Bio-Europe Spring (March 17-19, 🇮🇹 Milan) – Vlad Grecu, Matthijs Loning, and Julia Jongejans will be at this key life sciences event, where global biotech and pharma leaders come together to build partnerships. Are you attending any of these events? Reach out to the corresponding team member—we’d love to meet you! #Innovation #LifeSciences #DeepTech #WaterTech #BIOEuropespring #TeamCatalyze MWC Barcelona Aquatech Hello Tomorrow

🇩🇪 Boost dein Innovation mit German Funding Opportunities! Are you seeking support to advance your research or innovation? ZIM Germany, KMU-innovativ Biomedizin, and IraSME, are all open for applications. These programmes support you in developing groundbreaking products, enhancing services, or pioneering collaborative research. 💡 Explore these opportunities: ZIM Germany: The Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) supports innovation projects in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), fostering the development of pioneering technologies. KMU-innovativ Biomedizin: This programme strengthens the innovative capacity of SMEs in medical biotechnology, aiming to develop pharmaceuticals that contribute to the cure, alleviation, and prevention of diseases. IraSME: A network promoting transnational research and development cooperation among SMEs, facilitating international projects to develop new products, processes, or technical services. Unsure which programme aligns with your project? Kein problem! Contact Giovanna Nasilli, Ph.D or Anna Pont Soler to discuss the most suitable call for you. #GermanGrants #InnovationFunding #ZIMGermany #KMUinnovativ #IraSME #ResearchFunding #InnovationGermany

📅 Join 50+ attendees for our webinar on Maximising Impact in EU Projects! Want to take the communication and dissemination of your EU-funded project to the next level? Join our webinar, ‘Maximising Impact: Effective Communication & Dissemination for EU-Funded Projects’, and explore strategies to boost the visibility, outreach, and impact of your EU-funded project. Our science communication experts, Carolina Vieira and Vera van de Donk will share insights on key requirements, best practices, and digital tools to engage stakeholders and meet EU dissemination standards, while maximising your project's success. After the webinar, you will: ✅ Understand the differences between communication, dissemination, and exploitation in EU projects ✅ Know how to build a strategic communication and dissemination plan with clear objectives and KPIs ✅ Learn how to leverage digital tools to maximise impact 🔗 We’d love to see you there! Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/e-EsQh9G #Webinar #EUProjects #Communication #Dissemination #CatalyzeGroup

🥂Celebrating our EIC Accelerator winners: Astrape Networks 🇳🇱 Astrape Networks transforms data center networking with cutting-edge optical networking technology. Their breakthrough solution, OptiNet, leverages integrated photonics to create highly efficient data center networks that intelligently manage different types of traffic. OptiNet can handle at least 50% more load by optimising computational efficiency while significantly reducing energy consumption—paving the way for more sustainable and scalable AI-driven infrastructure. Astrape Networks was awarded €10M blended finance from the EIC Accelerator October 2024 round. Francesco Pessolano, Astrape Networks CEO, commented, "The EIC support will allow us to accelerate the development of our solution while reducing its risks—ensuring a technology that will be strategic for Europe. We are grateful for the great support from Catalyze throughout this journey." We are proud to have supported Astrape Networks towards their EIC Accelerator award. #AstrapeNetworks #photonics #EICAccelerator #Catalyze

🇩🇰 Secure Danish grant funding for your innovation! 🚀 Are you seeking support to advance your research? There are excellent funding opportunities with EUopSTART, InnoBooster, and Grand Solutions to develop groundbreaking products, enhance services, or perform pioneering collaborative research.   💡 Explore these opportunities:   EUopSTART: Provides funding to cover up to 50% of expenses related to preparing Horizon Europe, EIC & Eurostars applications, facilitating Danish participation in European research and innovation projects.   InnoBooster: Supports knowledge-based development projects in small and medium-sized Danish enterprises (SMEs) and startups, offering grants up to DKK 5 million to bring innovative products or services to market.   Grand Solutions: Invests in ambitious, collaborative research and innovation projects that address significant societal challenges, with funding ranging from DKK 5 to 40 million.   💬 Unsure which programme aligns with your project? Contact Erik Lijster, Business Developer—Nordics, to discuss the best fit.   #DanishGrants #InnovationFunding #EUopSTART #InnoBooster #GrandSolutions #ResearchFunding #InnovationDenmark

🇪🇺🚀 Empowering Europe’s most groundbreaking innovations to become global market leaders: Catalyze Co-Funding Club has officially kicked off! 🎉 Earlier this week, Hosts Aditya Raj and Werner Fischer, alongside our CEO, Marlene Végh, and CSO, Theodoor Rutgers, welcomed leading VCs and their portfolio companies to unlock co-investment opportunities and foster shared growth. 💡 In our first edition, we welcomed 16 VCs and 16 portfolio companies, facilitating over 70 bilateral meetings between VCs and startups. They explored groundbreaking innovation, learned from each other, and established new investment leads. The insights shared made one thing clear: It takes a well-curated community with a shared ambition to move capital towards companies that transform markets and create lasting positive impact on our economy, lives and planet. The Co-Funding Club offers such ecosystem with VCs spanning from early to scale up phase. This is just the beginning! We are excited to build upon this momentum. 📅 Upcoming events: 🔹 VC Roundtable – April 2, Amsterdam 🔹 Second Co-Funding Edition – June 24 🔗 Catalyze Co-funding Club is invite-only. If you are interested in joining, please sign-up via the waiting list:  https://lnkd.in/engukW_6 #VentureCapital #Innovation #Investment #CoFundingClub