Kongsberg Innovation joins DeepTech Alliance
DeepTech Alliance – partners across Europe
Kongsberg Innovation has been accepted as partner in a European coalition called the DeepTech Alliance. The alliance is an international initiative between the best deep tech incubators and accelerators in Europe to bring the most promising deep tech startups faster to the market.
Business incubators and accelerators affiliated with the DeepTech Alliance has a strong link to some of Europe’s top-tier academic institutions in Europe such as TU München, Politecnico de Milano, ETH Zürich and Technion. Correspondingly, BI Business School is Kongsberg Innovation’s academic partner in the DeepTech Alliance following the partnership agreement made in November 2020.
Thomas Klem Andersen, program manager at DeepTech Alliance
– Kongsberg Innovation has a strong national position within the Norwegian deep tech environment and has a close link to Norway’s leading high-tech industry. With Kongsberg Innovation on board, we have a new strong partner in the Nordic region and the DeepTech Alliance will benefit greatly from their know-how and network of corporates and startups, says Thomas Klem Andersen, program manager at DeepTech Alliance.
A leading startup ecosystem
With Kongsberg Innovation on board the DeepTech Alliance consist of eight partners from several European countries: Drive Technion Accelerator (Israel), ieLab (Switzerland), Future Box (Denmark), Hello Tomorrow (France), PoliHub (Italy), UnternehmerTUM (Germany) and Things (Sweden). These are accelerators connected to some of the most prestigious technical universities in the world, such as: Technion, ETH Zürich, DTU, Politecnico di Milano, TU München and KTH.
Einar Eilertsen, Chief Operating Officer at Kongsberg Innovation
– We are truly grateful and very excited to join the DeepTech Alliance. This is an important partnership that will strengthen our interaction and collaboration with Europe’s leading startup ecosystem, to support promising deep tech startups in the best possible way. We are looking forward to a close and productive collaboration, says Einar Eilertsen, Chief Operating Officer at Kongsberg Innovation.
The DeepTech Alliance organizes European acceleration programs that brings startups, experts, innovation partners, investors, and corporates together. The ambition is to secure contracts and investments for the participants.
Industry-specific accelerators
In an increasing international and competitive world, the DeepTech Alliance focuses on industry-specific accelerators that are tailored to different fields within deep technology of high complexity. The different accelerators match mature startups with B2B partners and investors. The aim is to accelerate deep tech startups with high growth potential and international ambitions to new European markets.
– We will recruit the best deep tech startups from all over Norway to join the different industry-specific accelerator programs. The goal is to help them to win contracts and investments in Europe, says Eilertsen.
Currently, the alliance is seeking deep tech startups to an Industry 4.0 accelerator. For more information visit deeptechalliance.org.
International collaboration
– PoliHUB has decided to join this ambitious alliance because we genuinely believes that international collaboration can represent a concrete way to facilitate the growth and impact of European startups by pooling resources, assets, and skills coming from each partner, says Stefano Mizio, head of startup acceleration programs at PoliHub.
Kongsberg Innovation is a member of Siva’s national incubator program. Innovation Norway has awarded Kongsberg Innovation an ecosystems grant to build and make an international innovation ecosystem available for promising startups across Norway. Kongsberg Innovation is also receiving annual grants from Viken County.
For more information, contact:
Einar Eilertsen, Chief Operating Officer at Kongsberg Innovation
E-mail: einar.andre.eilertsen@k-i.no | Phone: +47 45 04 97 40
