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10 teams in Incubation and 11 in the Startup Camp. Two different processes but with the same clear goal; to verify their idea and understand what possible customers or users want. This fall is full steam ahead at Chalmers Ventures when everything from treatment for herniated disc to connected gym equipment is to be taken […]

Christopher Hedvall, Business Coach at Chalmers Ventures, has been appointed to the jury of ”Marine Mastermind”, the Finnish marine power- and energy corporation Wärtsilä’s innovation contest for start-ups in the marine business. The competition is open for applications from today November 12th, when the contest is launched at leading Nordic tech conference Slush in Helsinki, […]

This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and […]

Today Swedens 10 most innovative entrepreneurs were presented with Åforsk entrepreneurs scolarship of 200 000 sek. Among the recepients were to Chalmers Ventures projects; Epishine and Swedish Algae Factory. The scolarship is made in partnership with SISP – Swedish Incubators & Science Parks.  The goal for ÅForsk is to work in favour of research and development within areas […]

Six weeks have passed since we launched Chalmers Ventures, and it’s full speed ahead. It’s a privilege to work with such motivated entrepreneurs, and ambitious and enthusiastic co-workers. We have 10 awesome teams in the Encubation program and 11 more in the Startup camp. At the same time we have also started to make investments, […]

​​Parakey has been awarded third prize and 25 000 SEK in the national finals of ”SKAPA Framtidens Innovatör”. The prize is issued by ​Stiftelsen SKAPA and instituted by VINNOVA. Earlier this year, Parakey recieved 15 000 SEK as the regional winner in Västra Götaland. An award banquet was held Thursday night in Stockholm and ​Parakey, a participant in Chalmers Ventures ​accelerator […]

Yesterday, Dagens Industri published an article stating that over 90 % of the recent year’s VC investments go to companies with male founders. Chalmers Ventures was one of the venture capitalists reviewed in the article and 20 % of the investments we have made so far have been in teams with a mix of male […]

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 […]

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 (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 […]