With €40 million in its pocket, Lightyear is exploring the possibility of going public
A €40 million investment should allow Lightyear's first solar car to be delivered by the end of this year.
Frans van Beveren
IO-TV July 8: LIVE Fontys for society and more!
Program wednesday July 815:10 – 15:30 Jakajima tv about vertical farming15:30 – 16:00 TopNames about Bidroom16:00 – 17:00 LIVE: Fontys for society, praten over seks […]
Innovation Origins in the time of Corona
While the whole world seems to be standing still, the virtual editors at Innovation Origins are busier than ever. This holds true for both the […]
Lightyear’s plans to scale up production
The young Dutch car company Lightyear is planning the production of its first car and has announced its strategy to scale up. Lightyear will outsource […]
Discover the future at the World Design Embassies
From climate change, safety and mobility to circularity, health care and water: these are all themes that challenge the growing world population. At Innovation Origins […]
Electric Scooters – All the pros and cons explained!
Visit any major city and you see E-Scooters everywhere. Some people claim it is a great sustainable alternative for the car, others think it is […]
Gerard & Anton Award winner SPIKE: Suitable batteries for anything that drives
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been presented again! High time to take a closer look at the winners and what we can expect from […]
Quantum Interfaces Explained
Last week, we reported that the Institute for Science and Technology (IST) Austria developed a prototype of a quantum interface. In this explainer we dive deeper into […]
Stella Era: Start of a new era for the solar car
“The Stella Era marks the beginning of a new era wherein the car no is no longer just focused only on itself,” is how Mick […]
Lightyear One, solar car from Helmond, catches its first sunbeams
The Lightyear One caught its first sunrays in the early hours of Tuesday morning. In a crowded theatre in Katwijk, the Netherlands, the first prototype […]
Reducing electricity consumption – will superconductivity soon be possible at room temperature?
The Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes established the theory of superconductivity in 1911. He discovered that mercury loses its electrical resistance at 4.2 Kelvin (- […]
Eindhoven company Intrisic ID secures €11 million loan from European Investment Bank
The Eindhoven company Intrinsic ID has secured a loan of €11 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB.). The company is a market leader in chip security, […]
3.75 million euro of funding for SMART Photonics
The Eindhoven scale-up SMART Photonics has successfully closed a loan agreement with PhotonDelta to the amount of 3.75 million euros. The company, located in Eindhoven […]
ASML: ‘The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong’
In a reaction to this morning’s articles on Chinese industrial espionage, ASML has announced that this is not a conspiracy by a government. According to […]
Taylor: the elegance of microelectronics
While some startups are making sexy products and love to be in the spotlights, others are working hard on techniques of which we will probably […]
Dutch student team tests more accurate GPS on experimental rocket
To determine the position of a rocket to within a few centimetres during its entire flight – that is what a team of researchers and […]
How to build the smartest district in the world?
How do you build the smartest district in the world? With this question and dream in the back of her mind, Elphi Nelissen started preparing […]
Detect fake news automatically, with software from Fraunhofer
Invented stories, distorted facts: fake news is spreading like wildfire on the internet and is often shared on without thought, particularly on social media. In […]
How do people experience flickering LED lighting?
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Signify have examined LED lighting. LED lighting can flicker or show a stroboscopic effect, which can cause […]
Total of €3.1 million seed funding for Salvia BioElectronics
The Eindhoven startup Salvia BioElectronics B.V. has received additional investment from the Brabant Startup Fund (BSF), bringing the total seed funding to €3.1 million. The […]