Homage to innovation
Cultured beef, Mark Post
2014, Brightlands
Homage to innovation
Time travel, Brian Smith
2043, Brightlands
Homage to innovation
Natural draught cooling tower, Frederik van Iterson
1916, DSM
Homage to innovation
High wear resistant ceramic carbon
CeraCarbon, 2014, Brightlands
Homage to innovation
Farmscrapers
Zhing Li, 2024, Brightlands
Homage to innovation
Innerspace satelites
2064, Jessica van der Hooven
Brightlands Innovation Factory is the entrepreneurial backbone of the Brightlands ecosystem. We get inspired by daring ideas for a better and more sustainable world. We empower today’s pioneers in advanced materials, health, nutrition, and smart services on their journey from a bold idea to a legendary company. At Brightlands Innovation Factory, all the bases are covered. World-class industry knowledge and expertise are coupled with expert supported programs, value-added services and facilities, and access to funding.
Incubate. Accelerate. Validate. Scale. That’s what we do.
Brightlands Techruption is a 2-year incubation program dedicated to the highest potential blockchain startups, consisting of an intensive 8-week Venture Essentials phase and a follow-up 2-year Venture Boost phase. Applications for the program are now open.
We are currently accepting applications.
Brightlands Incubate is a 2-year program, consisting of an intensive 8-week Venture Essentials program and a follow-up Venture Boost program to support the best startups in materials, health, smart services and food industries. Applications for the program open twice a year.
We are currently accepting applications.
Brightlands Accelerate is an intensive 3-month bootcamp for startups who already have a prototype or minimum viable product. Each Brightlands Accelerate program is dedicated to one of the focus areas: materials, health, smart services or food.
We are currently accepting applications.
We give you our incubator and accelerator startups from BIFINCS16, BIFINCF16, BIFACCF16 batches!
After weeks of masterclasses, workshops, 1-on-1 progress meetings and support from venture experts, these startups have made big steps towards becoming legendary companies.
Self-guiding tool to dotter faster and safer
Slow down Hashimoto to start living
Custom-fit 3D-printed medical prosthetics & braces from photos
Ocular Coil for Drug delivery with Comfort
Creator of innovative food products
Provable product authenticity through embedded digital identity
Connecting investors and startups
Reminding people
Bringing sovereignty back to your personal online data
Biobased compounds for plastic packaging
The real story behind each clothing item
The red carpet treatment for talent
Health improving water with minerals
Online service for jewelry models
Wear-resistant carbon fiber
Glove for the virtual
Control & adapt radiation exposures
Turning C02 into value
Sustainable food packaging
Providing enhanced lab automation
Good habits equals good life
Allowing people who suffer from dementia to stay longer at home
Real-time, on the spot, analytical data on the composition of substances
Turning CO2 into value
Reducing organ transplantation waiting lists by providing biogenerated organs
Turning subtractive waste into pow(d)er for additive manufacturing
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Brightlands is a vibrant ecosystem, where research, education, and business collaborate to develop sustainable solutions in advanced materials, health, nutrition, and the smart services that support them. The Brightlands ecosystem is home to daring entrepreneurs and visionary investors, forward- thinking corporations and knowledge institutes, talented researchers, and students. Brightlands facilitates open innovation, and the distribution of knowledge across scientific, geographical, and organisational borders.
We are proud to have support of a wide range of strategic partners. All of them embrace startups and innovation. Without them it would not be possible to provide a sustainable program.
If you are an entrepreneur with a game changing idea in the field of advanced materials, health, smart services or food, we want to hear from you. Get in touch!
