161 Startups
  • Sector
  • Participated in
  • Year of participation

Twente Medical Optics

  • 2024
  • Diagnostics
  • Venture Challenge
Twente Medical Optics offers a compact and easy-to-use device to assist surgeons in making a better decision to assess whether or not surgery is needed with second-degree burn injuries.

UCANACT

  • 2025
  • 2026
  • Medical Device
  • Venture Challenge
Brain-computer interface software that translates brain signals into digital commands and speech to restore autonomy for people with severe motor disabilities.

UFO Biosciences

  • 2019
  • Enabling Technology
  • Venture Challenge
Targeting the cells that matter, enabling better cancer care. By identifying, selecting and isolating single cells, UFO Biosciences enables the identification of the important genes that are missed with current technology.

UpyTher

  • 2017
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
UPyTher’s mission is to provide custom drug delivery solutions that enable sustained localized administration of therapeutics.

VEO

  • 2023
  • Enabling Technology
  • Venture Challenge
By exploiting human organoids, VEO enhances the predictive value of antiviral testing over the current pre-clinical models.

Vital Wear

  • 2024
  • Medical Device
  • Venture Challenge
Vital Wear develops sensor textiles that measure pressure and temperature to prevent pressure ulcers, providing better support for patients and caregivers.

VivArt-X

  • 2021
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
VivArt-X develops synthetic support material for specific cell therapies. Our lead indication will revolutionize breast reconstructive surgery in women who have undergone breast tissue removal after breast cancer diagnosis.

Voyagen

  • 2025
  • Diagnostics
  • Venture Challenge
Voyagen is a pharmatech startup pioneering the discovery of transcription factors as next-generation targets for oncology, with a focus on gastrointestinal tumors where current therapies are ineffective.

VU-AMS

  • 2025
  • 2026
  • Medical Device
  • Venture Challenge
Validated physiological stress monitoring technology that supports objective decision-making in burnout recovery and occupational health.

X-heal Diagnostics

  • 2017
  • Diagnostics
  • Venture Challenge
The ambition of X-Heal Diagnostics is to improve lung health through fast, specific and non-invasive diagnosis of lung infections in different patient groups including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis (CF) and tuberculosis patients.