KTH Innovation

Today is the final day to apply to KTH Innovation Launch, our program for promising startup teams founded by students and researchers* at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Here's why you should apply: 🗺️ Get a clear path to follow. Six months of focused work with weekly workshops followed by six months of tailored development.   ♥️ Peer-to-peer learning: Grow together with your batch, a group of teams in the same stage as you, forming a supportive and creative community. 🙌 Get backed by a team who believe in you, want you to succeed and will take every chance to talk about you. 🌍 Tap into KTH Innovation's global network and create new connections. 💰 Get the chance to pitch for to our investor network and KTH Ventures AB and to participate in KTH Innovation Demo Day. 🏚️ Access KTH Innovation's coworking space, makerspace and production studio at Teknikringen 1. ✨ Get invitations to community events and offers from our partners. 💜 Get the opportunity to get a mentor with business experience. 📈 Gain full access to KTH Innovation's support in coaching, funding, patents and agreements, recruitment and much more. Application closed 23.59 today 4 November. Don't miss your chance to launch your startup backed by a creative community and a leading startup hub ✨ 👉 Apply now at kth.se/launch! * We welcome teams with external members, but around 30% of the team need to be active as students, researchers or employees at KTH.

Asha Guled and Keyu Li have founded NovaBirth with the ambition to give every woman a safe and dignified birth experience. 🤱 In KTH Innovation Launch, they are developing their solution side by side with other ambitious founders. Asha says: "You're part of a community of people from diverse backgrounds, all working to build their startups, so you never feel alone. It's also incredibly helpful to have people around who believe in your idea", says Asha. 💡 Do you have a startup project you've been putting some work into? An idea you can't get out of your head? Application to KTH Innovation Launch is open until tomorrow 4 November! Apply now at www.kth.se/launch!

Meet Everi Labs, a KTH startup using AI to transform specialised healthcare clinics, beginning with prosthetics and orthotic clinics. By automating time-consuming administrative and insurance tasks, their platform enables clinicians to spend less time on paperwork and more time caring for patients. Founders Erik Dahlqvist and Ludvig Fraenkel joined KTH Innovation Launch to learn from experienced founders and coaches. "One of the best parts is the coaching sessions", says Erik. "Being around people who've done this before is invaluable". Do you want to launch your startup in a creative community backed by a leading startup hub? Apply to KTH Innovation Launch by tomorrow 4 November at kth.se/launch! #KTHInnovation #StartHereGoAnywhere

In 2015, the H&M Foundation came knocking on our door with an idea. The result was the Global Change Award, and last week we celebrated 10 years of bold ideas that can help decarbonise the textile industry. As partners in the Global Change Award, we have, to quote Ambercycle founder Shay Sethi "the duty and opportunity" to support the winners as they scale their solutions. For the past 10 years, we have seen 56 winners develop their innovations, from recycling technology, to bio-based dyes and leather made from leftovers from winemaking. Congratulations to this year's 10 winners and to the H&M Foundation for an insightful summit and beautiful award ceremony. Keep track of our 2025 winners! A Blunt Story, Brilliant Dyes, CircularFabrics, Decarbonization Lab, DecoRpet, Loom, PulpaTronics, Renasens, THE REVIVAL GHANA, ThermalCyclones Ltd. Annie Lindmark Indira Furniss Söderström Nathalie Stjernfeldt Grumme Sasha Thomas Beatrice Oldenburg Accenture The Mills Fabrica Anna Dadfar Lisa Ericsson Lisa Bäckman Yvonne Österbro Erik Bang Sara Cederlöf Amanda Aniansson Josefine Olsson Amy Tsang Chaucer Ma Cintia Nunes Anna Gedda

Meet a PhD student dedicated to making advanced cell research tools more accessible. Based on her research at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Jessika Jessika has founded OrCAGE ─ Organoid CAGE together with Akbar Bagas Pramantya. 💊 Organoid research holds great potential for studying diseases and testing new drugs, but imaging these tiny, 3D stem cell structures is still a major technical challenge. 🔬 OrCAGE solves this with 3D-printed microstructures that keep organoids localized for imaging and testing, making the process faster and more reliable. Read about Jessika’s journey from Sara Ilstedt's PhD course in Design Thinking to startup founder, and explore your own opportunities in KTH Innovation Launch: https://lnkd.in/dRGHb6KB #KTHInnovation #PhD #Innovation

One week left to apply to KTH Innovation Launch, our program for passionate and ambitious startup teams founded by students and researchers at KTH! Do you have a startup project you've been putting some work into? Want to launch your solution in 6-12 months? Join our creative community and get the support you need to succeed! Apply by 4 November at kth.se/launch!

Congratulations to KTH spinoff Zparq AB on securing €5.5 million in funding to further develop their electric outboard motors and their mission to drive the decarbonization of the marine industry. This funding is a combination of an European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) grant and an equity investment through Zparq’s existing investors InnoEnergy, Santander Climate Fund and Almi Invest Greentech writes EU-Startups. Well done Jonas Genchel and team! #KTHInnovation #StartHereGoAnywhere

The Rise Europe Sciencepreneurship & Tech Transfer Playbook: From breakthrough research to European tech champions is out! We're proud to have contributed alongside TUM Venture Labs and IE School of Science and Technology. 🔬Europe excels in research but struggles to bring ideas to market, only one-third of European patents are commercially exploited. This represents a massive opportunity for deep tech innovation driven by science-based entrepreneurship. 🏆 The Rise Europe Sciencepreneurship & Tech Transfer Playbook: From breakthrough research to European tech champions Sciencepreneurship sits at the intersection of research and entrepreneurship, turning discoveries into solutions for global challenges. As Europe works to strengthen its innovation capacity, making this translation from lab to market must become a systemic priority. 🌎 At Rise Europe, we identified sciencepreneurship as a cornerstone of Europe’s economic future. We gathered best practices and insights on how to empower researchers, manage IP, and build scalable ventures. The result: three unique approaches to turning research into the next generation of European tech champions. 🚀 🧪 From these, we gathered 7 guiding principles for startup hubs and innovation ecosystems to implement right away, to empower researchers, accelerate deep tech ventures, and transform science into market-ready innovation. 📘 Download the playbook: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dKFBt_5J This is the first in a series of Rise Europe Best Practice Playbooks, sharing proven models from across our network so every hub can learn from them. Let’s Rise Europe 🇪🇺 A big thank you to our main partner UniCredit and to everyone who made this possible: Jana Golfmann Itziar Ayerbe Lasagabaster Rafael del Granado Sascha Schwarz Tobias Ruzok Magnus Baumann Ikhlaq Sidhu Julie Harari West Lisa Ericsson Viktor Olsson Lisa Bäckman Yuliia Falinska KTH Ventures AB 📸: Kasper Christiansen #LetsRiseEurope #RiseEurope #ChooseEurope #Sciencepreneurship #TechTransfer #Innovation #DeepTech #SpinOffs #StartupEcosystem #Playbook #UniCredit

Application to KTH Innovation Launch is open! We are looking for the top 15 startup teams from KTH who want to launch their solution in 6-12 months. Become part of a creative community and get the resources you need to succeed. Apply by 4 November at kth.se/launch!

From recycled dyes to fabric made from citrus peel. This week, you can visit an exhibition of fashion innovations at KTH. For 10 years, KTH has been a partner in H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award, the world’s largest innovation challenge aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the textile industry. The exhibition celebrates a decade of bold ideas, showcasing 20 of the previous winners of the award. The exhibition is open until Friday 24 October at KTH Innovation, Teknikringen 1, KTH Campus. Pictures from the exhibition opening, where the 10 winners of the Global Change Award 2025 mingled with invited guests after having kicked off the second week of their Changemaker Program at KTH Innovation. #GlobalChangeAward #AlumniExhibition #10YearsOfChange #KTHInnovation #StartHereGoAnywhere Anna Dadfar Lisa Bäckman Lisa Ericsson Donnie SC Lygonis Annie Lindmark Nathalie Stjernfeldt Grumme Indira Furniss Söderström Anna Gedda Rubi Laboratories DyeRecycle Phycolabs Ponda GALY dimpora® Petit Pli Algaeing Resortecs Orange Fiber s.r.l. KBCols Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (Official Account) RFIDTHREADS® SXD TextileGenesis Ambercycle Algreen Ltd. BIORESTORE Nanoloom ALT TEX Refiberd