Jun 19, 2019 | Alumni, Earth Observation, Featured
Three award-winning Dutch entrepreneurs are joining efforts to tackle humanitarian disasters using powerful AI. Team OptOSS AI (comprising OPT/NET B.V., BlackShore and Wendy Mensink from Viridian Raven) got to the next round in the global IBM Watson AI XPRIZE...
Dec 18, 2018 | Alumni, BIC, Featured
Team OPTOSS AI, a joint team from our ESA BIC Noordwijk alumni Opt/NET BV & Blackshore, is among 30 diverse teams advancing to the third round of the prestigious IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition. As the only Dutch team in this phase of the competition. Click here...
May 28, 2018 | Alumni, BIC, Featured
It was a big dream that led to the founding of aviation startup Avy: “building self-flying aircraft for a sustainable future”. Two years later, the founders have lost none of their idealism. If anything, the company has become even more focused. “We have learned that...
Dec 21, 2017 | Alumni, BIC
The very idea of the ESA Business Incubation Centre is conveyed in our favourite hashtag: #downtoearth. Start-ups are challenged to use space technology to solve a problem on earth. Johan Leijtens from alumnus Lens R&D did just that. And then he took his...
Nov 13, 2017 | Alumni, BIC, Satellite Navigation
When Knowble entered the ESA BIC program in 2015, they had a simple yet revolutionary idea: why not use the GNSS-location of students, plus readily available news articles, to help them learn a (second) language? It has been shown that language learners pick up new...
Jun 15, 2017 | Alumni, ESNC, Incubatee, Satellite Navigation
The European Satellite Navigation Competition is an excellent starting point for aspiring entrepreneurs. This is not just an empty slogan, as evidenced by the number of winners that have founded successful businesses based on their idea. Two such companies are...
