oktober 2015 - Chalmers Ventures

Month: oktober 2015

Minesto raises 145 MSEK and gets 2,500 new shareholders

onsdag, 28 oktober, 2015

World leading marine energy company Minesto, raises another 145 MSEK and gets circa 2,500 new shareholders as a new share issue has been completed to the public in Sweden, and to professional investors. First day of trading with the company’s shares on First North at NASDAQ Stockholm, is set to 9th of November 2015. Minesto is a marine […]

Epishine and FarmDrones won Venture Cup Väst Business Idea Competition

tisdag, 27 oktober, 2015

Venture Cup announced today that Encubation projects Epishine and Farmdrones are the winners of Venture Cup Väst Business Idea Competition.   Epishine develops translucent and multicolored organic solar cells and won the category Environment and Energy. FarmDrones develops a software providing farmers with an up-to-date information feed on the most essential numbers related to the […]

Chalmers Innovation incubator is #9 best incubator in Europe

fredag, 23 oktober, 2015

Chalmers Innovation incubator (now a part of Chalmers Ventures) have been announced as #9 best University Associated Business Incubator in Europe, by UBI Index. On October 26 and 27, 2015, UBI Global and Incubatore di Imprese Innovative del Politecnico di Torino (I3P) co-hosted a benchmarking conference & award ceremony for the 2015 top performing university business […]

FarmDrones won Nordic IoT Challenge and € 25 000

fredag, 23 oktober, 2015

Encubation-team FarmDrones, a connected solution for farmers to increase productivity and crops yield, was awarded €25,000 and six months of guidance and mentoring by the Telenor Advisory Team.  Telenor Connexion today announced the winner of the 2015 Nordic IoT Challenge, an initiative to recognise innovation and excellence within the Internet of Things (IoT) arena. The grand […]

This is life in Encubation

onsdag, 21 oktober, 2015

In the Encubation process we team up idea partners with ambitious business developers from the two-year master’s education at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. For a full year, they work together with a group of students, dedicated to turning the idea into a startup venture. For the past weeks we’ve met with some of the teams, […]

#greenUps is the unique network for green innovations

onsdag, 14 oktober, 2015

  #greenUps is short for greentech startups and consists of companies within Chalmers Ventures working with green innovations. They have created a forum to share experiences and contacts, and also to help eachother create attention around businesses that uses the earths resources more effeciently and with less environmental impacts. Green Gothenburg is the citys effort […]

Minalyze and FarmDrones to final in Nordic IoT Challenge

onsdag, 14 oktober, 2015

The Nordic IoT Challenge is an initiative to recognize innovation and excellence within the Internet of Things (IoT) arena. Today Telenor Connexion announced the top three finalists, and two of them are Chalmers Venture companies! Nordic IoT 2015 finalistsAfter evaluating each of the submissions, Telenor Connexion today announced the following three finalists in the 2015 Nordic IoT Challenge: MinalyzeGothenburg, […]

Chalmers Ventures granted 20 MSEK from Vinnova

torsdag, 8 oktober, 2015

Chalmers Ventures has been granted 5 MSEK per year for four years from Vinnova. The decision to finance 18 incubators around the country with 55 MSEK yearly is now official. The money is to be used for increasing knowledge-intensive growth companies in Sweden. – We are happy about the support from Vinnova. But we also […]