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And the Anner Award goes to...
Slick presentations and high quality ideas, presented in the Martini Church. Three student entrepreneurs from the Hanze University pitched their startup during the finals of the Anner Award last week. After a final selection, a qualifying round and a series of workshops in April, the three finalists competed for a €2,500 prize, a marketing consult and participation in the Venturelab program.
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Startup in Residence is now live
Startups, jedis and wizards wanted! Groningen is looking for ambitious startups to come up with new and innovative ways to tackle societal issues and urban challenges. Find your challenge, pitch your fix and we’ll help you kickstart and launch it with our Startup in Residence Program. Whether it’s the energy transition, circular economy, healthy ageing or mobility, we’ve got 16 challenges lined up and ready for you to choose from.
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Vivendi buys Paylogic
On Monday, the French media conglomerate announced it had acquired online ticketing service Paylogic for an undisclosed sum. Together, the two expect to sell more than 20 million tickets a year for music, sporting and cultural events, to over 5,000 clients in over 30 countries.
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Horus: Mapping the world
Catching poachers in Africa, smugglers in Saudi Arabia and riot instigators during soccer games, all because of the 360 degrees camera technology made by Horus View and Explore. During Venturelab North’s Ventureclass last Thursday, founder René Bolhuis shared his global success story.
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WERC: connecting digital and physical through awesome visuals
Awesome visuals, lights and installations, made by the collective brain called WERC. The four artists have had their work featured at pretty much all the biggest festivals in the Netherlands and even the Great Wall of China.
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Coming soon: the Startup in Residence Program
Want to help make Groningen a better place with your startup? The Groningen City and Province are looking for ambitious startups to come up with new and innovative ways to tackle social issues and urban challenges. Startup in Residence is a 5 month program where you’ll get intensive coaching and training, and the City and Province will act as launching customer for the most promising solutions.
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Founded in Groningen is now open for everybody
This is exciting! Right now I am writing my very first blog post on the Founded in Groningen portal. Of course, I already added several companies, calls and initiatives via our back end. But this is different, I added this post through our new front end interface.
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These are the Innofest Eurosonic 2018 test cases
Mint tea made from your own urine, or a tasty beer brewed from local rainwater. Last week, Innofest turned Eurosonic/Noorderslag into a living lab for social and sustainable innovation. And Eurosonic being one of the biggest showcase festivals in the world, the startups involved had a pretty big podium to present and test their innovations.
