Out of a total of 43 registrations, 9 startups were selected to participate in the first edition of Startup in Residence Northern Netherlands. Last Thursday they presented their ideas during a virtual kick-off event and over the next six months they’ll work on realizing their innovative plans. Campus Groningen and partners are excited to work together with three startups in the Startup in Residence program and has selected Nibblr for the Facilitate Campus Connection Challenge, Tripservice for the Campus Mobility Challenge and EVoltify for the wildcard.

Startup in Residence offers startups the opportunity to actively collaborate for six months with the municipalities of Leeuwarden, Groningen, Assen and Emmen, the Hanzehogeschool and Noorderpoort, Groningen Seaports, Campus Groningen and partners, and the Provinces of Friesland and Groningen. During the program the entrepreneurs receive support and guidance from professional coaches to further develop their idea and prototype into a good product. The final solutions can also be purchased by the parties at the end of the program.

Nibblr

The communal eating platform Nibblr helps users to share meals and eat together with other people from the neighbourhood. For Startup In Residence, they’re working on a solution to facilitate meetings between the different target audiences of Campus Groningen and to create a 'Red Carpet' effect so that the Campus stays attractive for new talent to settle. Nibblr will take into account the COVID19 situation and will explore with Campus Groningen together how to connect and stimulate interaction based on food.

Tripservice

Tripservice wants to make sure that every commuter gets the right travel information. This is because they themselves also have experienced just how annoying it is when your navigation or other systems don't provide the right information. They also want to make travelers more conscious of the differences in modalities and the consequence of a modality choice. With the Mobility Portal Tripservice ensures that the experience of the journey is improved. Campus Groningen will work together with Tripservice and will be the challenge holder together with Hive.Mobility. 

EVoltify

EVoltify was founded to end the range anxiety of EV drivers. They make charging electric cars easy and simple. Searching for an available charging station is a thing of the past, because after you have parked your car, you let them know via the app where you are and that your car needs to be charged. EVoltify takes care of the rest. With the mobile EV chargers they can charge your car whenever and wherever you want. EVoltify brings the charging station to the car instead of the car to the charging station!

Have a look at all startups via www.foundedingroningen.com

Sources: GROC.nl , Founded in Groningen