Antennex, an antenna measurement solutions innovator, has secured €1.5 million seed funding from Value Creation Capital (VCC) and Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM). This investment will revolutionize the antenna testing and measurement landscape.
Founded in 2023 as a spinoff from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the company’s goal is to speed up measuring processes. Measuring antennas is an incredibly slow and outdated process. The company’s goal is to be able to characterize them with the speed and precision at which chips are characterized. In fact, the test market has to move in that direction because in 5G/6G systems, the antennas and chips are integrated, so there is no other way. Both chips and antennas must be measured in one go, quickly and accurately.
ANTENNEX operates in the test and measurement market for radio-frequency (RF) systems. The applications are endless, as this market targets almost all wireless devices. Right now, they focus on next-generation devices. These include applications that, for example, have not yet been widely rolled out – think of wireless data centers or VR and AR. They are applications requiring enormously high data rates and different antennas.
Anouk Hubrechsen, CEO of Antennex: “This investment allows us to expand our operational and commercial activities for customers worldwide. VCC and BOM bring an enormous added value in developing our company because of their backgrounds in the RF and test and measurement domains. We are happy to welcome them as a shareholder in our company.”
ANTENNEX was one of the 2023 winners of the Gerard & Anton Awards. This year, the young company won the LEVEL UP Award and was rewarded with a trip to CES Las Vegas and Silicon Valley.
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