149 Startups
  • Sector
  • Participated in
  • Year of participation

Immunara

  • 2025
  • Venture Challenge
Immunara is designing nanobody-based carriers that bind to CD169 and deliver a variety of antigen formats, such as recombinant proteins, peptides, viral vectors or RNA.

IMPACT

  • 2025
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
At IMPACT, they create a therapy that combines patient-derived chondrons with off-the-shelf allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), enabling regenerative treatment in a single surgery. This reduces both patient burden and hospital costs compared to current cell therapies.

INBORN

  • 2022
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
Injectable bone filler with drug release function for treatment of bone infections (INBORN)

Incircular biotechnologies

  • 2019
  • Enabling Technology
  • Venture Challenge
Incircular Biotechnologies uses its unique patented INCYPRO technology to stabilize G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) for reliable applications in drug discovery. This will enable the development of drug candidates for currently non-targeted GPCRs.

Innofluidics

  • 2021
  • Diagnostics
  • Venture Challenge
Liquid biopsy platform for purification and collection of intact CTCs directly from blood

Innofuse

  • 2014
  • Medical Device
  • Venture Challenge
An infusion set that guarantees stability and immediacy of drug administration for preterm babies

inSteps

  • 2022
  • Enabling Technology
  • Venture Challenge
Our in-silico platform can simulate stent-retriever-based thrombectomy in various patient-specific scenarios of varying vascular anatomy and clot characteristics. This allows the medical device industries to evaluate the performance of their novel devices before pre-clinical testing.

Invision-Ex

  • 2023
  • Medical Device
  • Venture Challenge
Invision-ex has developed a bioengineered, lab-grown, human cornea tissue, offering a sustainable, accessible, long-term, and vision corrective solution.

iProtics

  • 2022
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
The Overkleeft group at Leiden University discovered superior proteasome inhibitors, and it is the aim of iProtics to develop these leads to become the first-in-line treatment for Multiple Myeloma patients.

Karveel

  • 2015
  • Therapeutics
  • Venture Challenge
To develop early-stage antibiotic lead compounds discovered by researchers at Utrecht University. Specifically, we aim to target clinically-relevant pathogenic bacteria that have become resistant to first-line antibiotics.