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🎄✨ What a memorable evening! Last week, we came together for our annual Christmas party in Amsterdam. A big thank you to...
16/12/2024

🎄✨ What a memorable evening! Last week, we came together for our annual Christmas party in Amsterdam. A big thank you to our amazing team for joining and making it a fantastic celebration of all the hard work and achievements from this year. Here's to continuing our mission of creating meaningful impact in the year ahead 🥂

And a special thank you to Liselotte Kanters for organising a great event!

👀 Looking back on COP16Riyadh! Last week, Werner Fischer led the Catalyze delegation of five pioneering startups to COP1...
11/12/2024

👀 Looking back on COP16Riyadh! Last week, Werner Fischer led the Catalyze delegation of five pioneering startups to COP16 together with Edde Lyons. During the event, hosted by our partners UN Convention to Combat Desertification, they showcased outstanding private-sector leadership in land restoration and drought resilience, highlighting the power of innovation, investment, and collaboration. Throughout the week we:

- Presented innovative solutions to relevant stakeholders from public and private sectors
- Hosted panel discussions uniting efforts to tackle the urgent challenge of desertification
- Established meaningful relationships driving forward the vision of a more sustainable and resilient future

Our delegation unlocked new opportunities to scale their impact globally and we expanded our footprint within the global business for impact community, which we are very proud of! Special thanks to the platform provided by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, ChangeNOW, World Economic Forum.

Together with our delegation, Catalyze has been actively supporting the UNCCD’s Business 4 Land initiative accelerating their ambitious goal to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land by 2030. This initiative seeks to catalyse private sector engagement in tackling land degradation and drought, advancing sustainable land and water management practices. We look forward to continuing this partnership!

🚀 Thanks to the startups: Sand to Green, YieldComputer, Farmula, Spatialise and Nature Robots.

🇨🇭The new Innosuisse Startup Innovation Project (SIP) programme is here! Designed to empower innovative startups in Swit...
09/12/2024

🇨🇭The new Innosuisse Startup Innovation Project (SIP) programme is here! Designed to empower innovative startups in Switzerland with the support they need to bring their groundbreaking technologies to market. Our colleagues Anna Pont Soler and Giovanna Nasilli, PhD are happy to present you our 2025 Innosuisse Start-up Innovation Project guide!

What’s new in the 2025 guide?
🔸 New insights from our SIP experts & tips for crafting a standout application
🔸 Updated eligibility criteria
🔸 Detailed breakdown of the application & evaluation process

💡 SIP supports science-driven innovation across all sectors: ICT, energy, life sciences, engineering, and more

🔗 Don’t miss out and download the new guide: https://www.catalyze-group.com/innosuisse-start-up-innovation-programme-guide/

💡 Searching for next generation viral targets! The Horizon Europe SHIELD project has received €8M in funding to combat v...
04/12/2024

💡 Searching for next generation viral targets! The Horizon Europe SHIELD project has received €8M in funding to combat viruses with high pandemic potential like Dengue, Zika, and Lassa. The 5 year project, which commences in January 2025, will elucidate and valorise understudied mechanisms related to viral entry, such as glycan shielding—a mechanism that viruses use to evade immune detection.

As Professor Floris Rutjes, Director Institute for Molecules and Materials - Radboud University explains, “if we show that this is a viable approach, then the impact might be much bigger than only for this programme. It could inform other antiviral strategies and be useful in vaccine development.”

The SHIELD consortium features 10 leading European institutions including Heidelberg University (Project Coordinator), Radboud University, and Institut Pasteur.

Catalyze is proud to have supported Prof. Rutjes and the SHIELD consortium towards securing their Horizon Europe grant.

🔗 Read the full interview with Prof. Rutjes here: https://lnkd.in/gWANbj23

💡🇫🇮 Supporting the Terkko Health Hub community in Helsinki! Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting our partner Terkk...
05/11/2024

💡🇫🇮 Supporting the Terkko Health Hub community in Helsinki! Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting our partner Terkko Health Hub, where our Innovation Consultants, Erik Lijster and Reinoud Brenkman, gave a seminar on strategies to navigate funding challenges and accelerate innovation.

Thank you to Rashad Ismayil and Aleksandra Dobrego, for hosting this event, and to all of the inspiring start-ups who attended. We are already looking forward to our next visit to Finland. Let's make impact together!

🏥 Proud partners with Sanquin Health Solutions! We are celebrating 3 years of succesful partnership with Sanquin. To lea...
24/10/2024

🏥 Proud partners with Sanquin Health Solutions! We are celebrating 3 years of succesful partnership with Sanquin. To learn more about the impact and the current focus of Sanquin Health Solutions, we spoke with Rogier van den Braak, Managing Director at SHS Group.

🔗 Read the interview here: https://www.catalyze-group.com/case/our-partnership-with-sanquin-health-solutions-celebrating-3-years/

🩸 About Sanquin Health Solutions (SHS): SHS covers all activities under the umbrella of the Sanquin Foundation (Sanquin) that operate in a commercial context. Their ecosystem and innovation partners stimulate and facilitate developments and innovations in the field of Transfusion Medicine, Heamatology, Immunology and Oncology. By doing this, they provide future's medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and treatment methods.

🇮🇹 Last week, Mo Ghashghavi, PhD and Aysha Putri represented us at the largest EIT Food event of the year in Rome, Next ...
23/10/2024

🇮🇹 Last week, Mo Ghashghavi, PhD and Aysha Putri represented us at the largest EIT Food event of the year in Rome, Next Bite 2024. Over the course of three days they explored exciting opportunities with potential future collaborators. They also met some of our existing clients, including Ralf Becks from RESPECTfarms (pictured).

🤝 As an official partner of EIT, we are eager to continue contributing to the impact EIT is driving for the future of our food systems.

📲 If we missed the opportunity to connect with you during the event, it’s not too late to get in touch! We are ready to explore how we can support your food innovation. Just connect with Mo!

🫀Two weeks ago Helen Pothuizen, PhD, our Managing Consultant Innovation Intelligence, presented at the Dutch CardioVascu...
22/10/2024

🫀Two weeks ago Helen Pothuizen, PhD, our Managing Consultant Innovation Intelligence, presented at the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance workshop on valorisation, "From Academic Project to Spin-off Company", on behalf of Catalyze.

Helen shared, "It was inspiring to discuss the route from innovation to commercialisation, and its challenges, together with programme/research managers from leading cardiovascular funding organisations in the Netherlands and to learn from their perspectives.”

Thank you DCVA for the invitation!

🌍 Exciting Events Ahead! 🚀 Our team is gearing up for an action-packed final quarter, with several industry events on ou...
25/09/2024

🌍 Exciting Events Ahead! 🚀 Our team is gearing up for an action-packed final quarter, with several industry events on our calendar. We’re thrilled to be attending and engaging with innovators, leaders, and change-makers at the following events:

🇩🇰 LSX Nordics Congress (Kopenhagen, October 8-9) - Erik Lijster and Anna Pont Soler will be connecting with biotech, medtech, and healthtech leaders to explore new growth opportunities in life sciences.

🇮🇹 EIT Food Next Bite (Rome, October 15-16) - Mo Ghashghavi, PhD and Aysha Putri will be diving into the future of sustainable food systems and technologies shaping the next wave of agri-food innovation.

🇸🇪 Bio Europe (Stockholm, November 4-6) – Giovanna Nasilli, PhD and Erik Lijster will be networking with the brightest minds in biopharma and life sciences to foster partnerships and explore groundbreaking collaborations.

We are looking forward to insightful discussions, promising connections, and sharing our latest updates. Will you be there? Let’s connect! 🤝

📆🍽️ Yesterday, Peter van den Berghe, Reinoud Brenkman and Kirsten van Benthem had a great time visiting our partners Kad...
18/09/2024

📆🍽️ Yesterday, Peter van den Berghe, Reinoud Brenkman and Kirsten van Benthem had a great time visiting our partners Kadans Science Partner for a special 'Meet & Eat' event. They gave a talk discussing the various subsidy schemes in the field of Life Sciences and Medical Technology.

Our colleague Reinoud enjoyed the event: “It was great to connect with the innovative start-ups of the Kadans ecosystem and share with them actionable insights into the funding landscape. We look forward to collaborating further with the startups and helping them move forward in their innovation journey.“

Thank you to all the start-ups for attending and to Rob van Overbeek, Megan G. and the Kadans team for hosting an enjoyable event!

💰🇪🇺 €4 million EIC Pathfinder funding to revolutionise precision nutrition in diabetes! The hashtag project, led by the...
18/09/2024

💰🇪🇺 €4 million EIC Pathfinder funding to revolutionise precision nutrition in diabetes! The hashtag project, led by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet), will use continuous glucose monitor data from non-diabetic individuals to identify early glycemic deviation patterns, or “glucotypes”. It promises significant societal, economic, and environmental benefits in the EU and worldwide.

The project brings together leading experts in nutrition, metabolic diseases, glycobiology, gut microbiome, epidemiology, and machine learning from all over Europe. The Weizmann Institute of Science (🇮🇱), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (🇪🇸), Maastricht University (🇳🇱), Leiden University Medical Center (🇳🇱), and ILSI Europe (🇧🇪) are participating next to project leaders Novo Nordisk Foundation CBMR (🇩🇰).

We heard Project Coordinator Jordi Merino's (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen) thoughts on the project and on Catalyze’s support towards this success.

“The GLUCOTYPES Consortium capitalises on advancements in wearable technologies, innovative perspectives on diabetes nosology, and breakthroughs in molecular biology and bioinformatics to bolster the foundation of evidence required for developing precision nutrition strategies in diabetes.”

📅🍽️ Did register already for the Meet & Eat at Kadans Science Partner!? On 17 September, we are invited for the next edi...
10/09/2024

📅🍽️ Did register already for the Meet & Eat at Kadans Science Partner!? On 17 September, we are invited for the next edition of Meet & Eat at Plus Ultra, Leiden Bio Science Park. Our colleagues Peter van den Berghe and Reinoud Brenkman will be discussing the various subsidy schemes in the field of Life Sciences and Medical Technology.

They will share insights and expertise on non-dilutive funding opportunities available within the Netherlands and Europe, covering everything from early-stage funding to venture capital. There will also be time for networking following their presentation.

🔗 The registration for the event is closing soon, so make sure to sign-up quickly.

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