Entrepreneurship news for students
There is a lot going on within our university when it comes to entrepreneurship. Keep up to date with the latest news about entrepreneurship.
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Tilburg University welcomes entrepreneurial students and startups to Deprez building on Spoorzone Campus
21st June 2022Tilburg University has concrete plans to establish an additional IQONIC incubator in the Deprez building in the Spoorzone Campus. It will be the place for students and startups where education and entrepreneurship come together. This news was announced by Paulina Snijders, vice president of the Executive Board, at the meeting in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the IQONIC incubator.
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Tilburg University Challenge start-up Yopla automates your healthy & sustainable grocery planning
22nd April 2022Tilburg University Challenge winner of the Ideation Award Purvi Sankhla, has pursued her journey into the start-up Yopla. This is a sustainability-oriented start-up that puts healthy and sustainable living on autopilot mode. Especially since today is Earth Day, this start-up deserves some special attention.
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Tilburg legal tech startup HalloLex raises 500.000 euro with investors
21st April 2022The Tilburg-based company HalloLex has acquired an investment of 500,000 euros this week. With the money, given by angel investors, the young company of founder Bas van der Werf wants to realise further growth of the organisation.
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Alumni Start-up Scribbr Thesis checker bought by American company
25th March 2022Scribbr, the fast-growing "proofreading" service for theses of Tilburg University alumni Koen Driessen and Bas Swaen, is being acquired by the American company Course Hero.
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The Fujifilm Future Challenge 2022 - Create your own sustainable solutions
08th March 2022Fujifilm, the world's largest photographic and imaging company, has a mission to improve the quality of life for people worldwide. You can contribute to this challenge with this goal and learn about how to create and test sustainable business ideas in an international setting.
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Sustainable & Social impact with the Bigger Picture
28th January 2022I am Freek van Litsenburg, a 23-year-old masters’ student at the Tilburg University and also the founder of the sustainable fashion brand ‘Bigger Picture Clothing’. With this start-up, I aim to disrupt the fashion industry. We do this by creating a 100% transparent supply chain, from the clothing we produce sustainably and ethically in Portugal, all the way up to the water facilities we build in Ethiopia & Tanzania.
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Entrepreneurship Day Brabant
05th January 2022A series of events where inspiring entrepreneurial topics are discussed and interesting companies will be interviewed. These events are accessible online to all students and other people interested. Prior to the Venture Visionaries event, it is possible for startups to book an Expert-hour.
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Enactus Tilburg & Friends Podcast #2: Tom Leenders, co-founder of zero waste headphone company Gerrard Street
04th January 2022In this second episode of the Enactus Tilburg & Friends video/podcast, the students of Enactus Tilburg University sat down for a conversation with Tom Leenders, co-founder of circular headphone company Gerrard Street. The conversation spanned topics such as Gerrard Street's mission to reduce e-waste, the challenges of launching a physical product, the tough and messy process of product validation, and Tom's learnings along the way.