Five teams kick off the Venture Challenge Spring 2025!

This week marks the official start of the Venture Challenge Spring 2025! Five ambitious teams are diving into the eight-week coaching program where they’ll transform their groundbreaking Life Sciences & Health innovations into solid business cases.

Guided by experienced business coaches and sector experts, the participants will work toward building their startup plans. The programme concludes with a final pitch to a jury of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors. The winning team will receive a €25,000 prize to support their next steps.

Here are the teams taking part in this spring edition:

• NeuroNova Therapeutics – Dr. D. Counotte, UMC Utrecht
• Streasure4Health – Objective diagnosis and treatment monitoring of post-acute infection syndromes using cutting-edge sensor technology – Prof. Dr. P.M.T. Deen
• IMPACT – Dr. J. Korpershoek, UMC Utrecht
• Matriarch – Dr. M. Peppelenbosch, Erasmus MC Rotterdam
• Voyagen – Transforming drug development with AI and high-throughput mechanistic screening – Mr. M. Trauernicht, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)

We wish all teams an inspiring and successful Venture Challenge journey, organised in collaboration with NWO.

Source: NWO