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Lumox in the Spotlight — Killing Cancer with Light on BNR Radio Our very own Lumox is making waves — this time on national radio
Crossroads 2026 is done and it was a good one. On July 8 we brought the Utrecht startup ecosystem together at DotSlash for a full day of pitches, conversations, and the kind of energy you only get when founders, investors, and ecosystem builders are all in the same room.
Tagetto is a deal intelligence company focused on M&A. They build AI-powered market mapping and pipeline tools in close collaboration with corporate development and M&A teams, for target sourcing, deal tracking, or any other stage where finding and closing the right acquisition matters.
The clinical countdown has started. Are you in? Lumox, one of our startups, just secured €4.5M+ from KWF Kankerbestrijding to fund the first clinical study of their light-activated precision cancer therapy. The roadmap to patients is now a timeline.
ObsessLess was named runner-up for the NN Social Innovation Startup Award at Hello Tomorrow, founded by Mourice Schuurmans and Adrian Pavel. The recognition comes with a €35,000 grant aimed at helping more people get timely support, addressing long wait times that many currently face for proper OCD treatment.
XDMD are an engineering company focused on medical imaging. They build custom-made AI solutions in close collaboration with clinical and industrial partners for radiology, pathology or any other domain where medical images are used.
What if your sensor could heal itself, bend around your body and feel the world the way human skin does? That's exactly what Paula Montes Jiménez, biomedical engineer with a Master´s in Medical Device Design, is working on at Cybosense.
The competition was held at Upstream Festival in Rotterdam, organized by Erasmus Entreprise, one of the biggest startup competitions in the Netherlands, bringing together early-stage ventures from across the country. They will head to the Silicon Valley to visit Draper University.
ObsessLess is building the digital support layer for OCD, not to replace therapy, but to make support available in the moments the current system can't reach: before a first appointment, between sessions, after a trigger hits and the next session is still two weeks away.