The ten winners have been chosen and are already warming up for their stage performance. The drinks and food have been ordered (all vegetarian – if you keep writing about a world in transition, it serves no goal to act differently, of course) and all 300 available tickets have an owner. In short, we are ready for the ninth edition of the Gerard & Anton Awards.
The jury led by Alderman Stijn Steenbakkers (with members from all parts of the Eindhoven innovative ecosystem) has assigned the new awards to ten outstanding representatives of high-tech Brainport. As usual, the award ceremony (Thursday, Aug. 31, around 5:30 p.m. at the High Tech Campus) is in the hands of Beatrix Bos and Bert-Jan Woertman. Apart from the presentation of the awards themselves, they also have some great news about the future of the Gerard & Anton Awards. More on that next week.
History of the Gerard & Anton Award
Since 2014, we have had a total of 80 winners on stage. As of 2016, this is done under the name “Gerard & Anton Award,” after the best-known startup from the region: Philips. Across the board, the success rate of the winning startups is unprecedentedly high: where, on average, about 15-20% of startups are structurally successful, with this group, it is more than 75%.
Among the former winners are well-known names such as:
- Sorama (2014, founder Rick Scholte was awarded Engineer of the Year a few years later).
- Ioniqa (2015, now the company makes recycled bottles for Coca-Cola)
- Smart Photonics (2015, now driving the global photonics industry)
- LifeSense (2016, with the now globally sold underwear sensor that can prevent incontinence)
- Sendcloud (2016, one of the scarce Dutch unicorns)
- Lightyear (2017, the solar car that taught the world about ups and downs, and ups again)
- Xeltis (2017, with the revolutionary technology around the ‘growing with you’ artificial heart)
- Ebusco (2019, now selling electric buses around the world, competing with the Chinese)
- Carbyon (2020, busy making CO2 an opportunity rather than a problem)
- Axelera AI (2022, now 50 million in investments further)
All winners, by year
All former winners Gerard & Anton Awards:
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
Etulip
Team FAST / DENS
Lifesense
G-Therapeutics (ONWARD)
Microsite
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
Autoscriber
(there was no award in 2021 because of Corona)
2022
Autoscriber
InPhocal
VBTI
Axelera AI
Ambagon
Cellcius
Lionvolt
Rift
Pharmi
InnoSign
The event is supported by High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Mikrocentrum, Brainport Development, V.O. Patents & Trademarks, Kadans Science Partner, EY, Philips Nederland, Twice, Dispatches Europe, and Gemeente Eindhoven.
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