Every year, Innovation Origins spotlights ten startups from the Brainport region. These are ten innovative start-ups of which we expect great things in the coming year. For each of these start-ups a Gerard & Anton Award is waiting: not only as a reward for the recent development, but especially as an incentive to go even further.
The previous nine editions show that this helps: the success rate of the former winners is above average. That conclusion was already firmly established in 2022 via the results of the comprehensive survey of former winners conducted last year by Strategy Unit and IO. This year there is additional research, the results of which will be released on July 3.
- The date for the tenth edition of the Gerard & Anton Awards is July 3;
- Reserve your spot for the party here: Eventbrite.
- Nominations for one of the ten winners are welcome until May 28;
- Send your nominations to [email protected]
The selection for the tenth edition of this event takes place with the help of the public and an expert jury led by Alderman Stijn Steenbakkers. The award ceremony is on July 3 at 17:00 in the anniversary tent of the 25-year High Tech Campus. As in previous years, the presentation will be in the hands of Beatrix Bos and Bert-Jan Woertman. Registration for the event starts soon (keep an eye on our website!), but a contribution in the form of a nomination is already welcome: send it to [email protected] by May 28. May 28, isn’t that very soon? Yes, that’s fast – this way the jury deliberations can take place in time.
History of Gerard & Anton Award
Since 2014, we have had a total of 90 winners on stage. As of 2016, this is done under the name “Gerard & Anton Award,” after the best-known startup from the region. Across the board, the success rate of the winning startups is unprecedentedly high: where on average about 15-20% of startups are structurally successful, in this group it is more than 75%.
Former winners include names as:
- Sorama (2014, founder Rick Scholte was awarded Engineer of the Year a few years later).
- Ioniqa (2015, now the company makes the – recycled – bottles for Coca-Cola)
- Smart Photonics (2015, now driving the global photonics industry)
- LifeSense (2016, with the now globally sold sensor tab that can prevent incontinence)
- Sendcloud (2016, one of the only Dutch unicorns)
- Lightyear (2017, talking about the art of trial and error…)
- Xeltis (2017, with the revolutionary technology around the ‘growing along’ artificial heart)
- Hable (2019, enables blind people worldwide to easily use their smartphones)
- Carbyon (2020, busy making CO2 an opportunity rather than a problem)
- Axelera AI (2022, with now 50 million in investment further along)
- GrAI Matter Labs (2023, which came under the wings of SnapChat immediately after the awards ceremony)
The bar for putting together a good top 10 is high. Who do we want to nominate for this year? Which start-up is still quietly working but will soon make a big move? Let us know, and in doing so, help the judges get a long list: [email protected].
All the winners by year
All former winners of the Gerard & Anton Awards can be found on the Gerard & Anton site. Here we have listed them again:
2014
Flowid
Nemo Healthcare
Civolution
Cordian
Additive Industries
Progression Industry
Sapiens/ Medtronic
EFFECT Photonics
Sorama
Intrinsic-ID
2015
Utomik
SpinControl Gearing
Smart Photonics
Smart Robotics
No Food Wasted
Medimetrics
Manus VR
Ioniqa
Fistuca
Avular
2016
IBIS Power
Sendcloud
BlueJay
Genkey
Etulipa
Team FAST / DENS
Lifesense
G-Therapeutics (ONWARD)
Microsure
Zens
2017
Xeltis
Tusti
Preceyes
Plasmacure
Lightyear
Hugsy
HAAK
Bitsensor
Bambi Medical
Amber
2018
ByFlow
Salvia
Pillow’s Willow
ATO Gear (ARION)
Zorgdoc
IPOS
Onera
Medapp
Stentit
Usono
2019
Chromodynamics
Ebusco
Hable
Incooling
Mentech
Ratio
Skotty
Spike (Eleo)
Taylor
Saldtech
2020
Carbyon
EZ factory
Roosh
Touchwind
XYZ Dynamics
Bright Photonics
Choice for Women
Orange NXT
Tech 2B
True Sim
(the 2021 ceremony didn’t happen because of Corona)
2022
Autoscriber
InPhocal
VBTI
Axelera AI
Ambagon
Cellcius
Lionvolt
Rift
Pharmi
InnoSign
2023
Antennex
VivArt-X
Integer Technologies
Mantispectra
GrAI Matter Labs
Gilbert Technologies (DTXL)
Alphabeats
Neople
Tibo Energy
The Gerard & Anton Awards are an initiative of Innovation Origins and are co-sponsored by Philips, High Tech Campus, EY, Twice, Holland Innovative, VO, Eindhoven City Council, Rabobank and Dispatches Europe. There is room for more partners.
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