Innovation Industries
Innovation Industries is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm established in 2017, specializing in early-stage investments in high-tech, med-tech, and agri-food tech companies. The firm adopts a hands-on management approach, offering entrepreneurs not only financial support but also valuable expertise, industry knowledge, and connections to enhance their ventures. By actively assisting portfolio companies, Innovation Industries aims to strengthen their value propositions, accelerate their time-to-market, and facilitate strategic partnerships while helping them navigate common start-up challenges. Although the firm primarily focuses on start-ups, it also invests in scale-ups, ensuring a broad spectrum of funding capabilities. This approach allows Innovation Industries to sustain emerging breakthroughs in research and technology with sufficient venture capital, ultimately optimizing the companies' chances of success and delivering returns to its investors as these businesses grow and develop.
Pharrowtech BV manufactures chip and antenna solutions for wireless applications. The company designs and manufactures wireless sub-systems for 60GHz millimeter wave wireless applications. Its products include chip and antenna systems. Pharrowtech BV caters to fixed-wireless access, wireless virtual reality and artificial reality, and high capacity wireless links customers. The company is based in Mortsel, Belgium.
Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI. Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
A-Mansia Biotech is a developer of products based on the properties of the Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) bacterium. The company's nutritional supplement based on a gut bacterium called Akkermansia, the population of microorganisms housed in the gastrointestinal tract. A. muciniphila is located in the mucus layer covering the intestinal epithelium, which allows the bacterium to establish a close cross-talk with the host.