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  • Promising deeptech startups, industry, and investors gathered at KTH

    Published Dec 17, 2025

    Promising deeptech projects from KTH, Chalmers University of Technology, Uppsala University, and Lund University met with investors and industry representatives at KTH Innovation last week. The event,...

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  • KTH Innovation strengthens support for deep tech – new funding available

    Published Nov 27, 2025

    KTH Innovation has been awarded the highest amount of funding of all universities in Sweden for 2026–2027 in this year’s call for Vinnova's verification program VFT. The funding supports researchers i...

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  • Tiny organs, big potential: how a PhD student is bridging microfabrication with organoid research

    Jessika Jessika & Akbar Bagas Pramantya holding up their microstructures
    Published Oct 30, 2025

    Organoid research is opening new possibilities for studying human diseases and testing drugs. But despite their potential, manipulating and studying them under the microscope is still a technical chal...

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  • From birch bark to truck cab

    Josefin Larsson & rubber components
    "Commercialization and circular innovation both depend on partnerships,” says Josefin Larsson, founder and CEO of Reselo. “For us, having companies like Scania and AnVa believe in what we’re doing is incredibly valuable.
    Published Sep 16, 2025

    Scania and KTH spin-off Reselo are exploring how a rubber made from birch bark could help reduce the carbon footprint of tomorrow’s transport vehicles.

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  • Record increase in new ideas at KTH - meet 18 new startups

    A woman holding a presentation
    Jade Arana presents Swirl, a smart app for wine recommendations
    Published Aug 27, 2025

    The number of new ideas at KTH Innovation has increased by 20 percent during the first half of 2025 – a development strongly driven by AI. Over 220 new ideas have been submitted so far this year, and ...

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  • Innovation model with global impact

    People in workshop mode
    Published Jul 02, 2025

    In the innovation ecosystem, we often measure success by the number of ideas we support, how many startups we help launch, or how much capital they raise. Another type of impact that is harder to quan...

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  • KTH Holding transitions to KTH Ventures

    Reaktorhallen i lila ljus. KTH Ventures logga syns på väggen.
    Published Jun 11, 2025

    KTH Holding, the venture capital arm of KTH Royal Institute of Technology officially transitioned to KTH Ventures on Tuesday 27 May during an event held in the historic reactor hall beneath KTH, marki...

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  • Entrepreneurship scholarship for more effective skin cream

    Man outdoors holding a model.
    William Ferreira Andrén has further developed the Rolling spiked microspheres technology. Photo: Patrik Lundmark, KTH Innovation
    Published May 28, 2025

    This year, the KTH Innovation & Stockholms Grosshandelssocietet Entrepreneurship scholarship goes to KTH student William Ferreira Andrén. His company has developed a new technology that greatly improv...

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  • Opening doors to industry - perspectives from Volvo Group

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    Vishnu Rajanikanth, Head of CampX and Kajsa Karlsson, Senior Innovation Manager at CampX shared Volvo Group's offer for startups.
    Published May 28, 2025

    How can an industry-leading corporation create opportunities for startups? Volvo Group’s Vishnu Rajanikanth, Kajsa Karlsson, and Claes Nordenberg share how they work with innovation.

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  • Experienced entrepreneurs and innovative researchers join forces

    Published May 22, 2025

    When KTH put out a call for venture builders to join a new program addressing the gap between research-based innovations and the entrepreneurial resources needed to scale them up into global companies...

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  • A sticky solution to broken bones

    Michael Malkoch showing off a glued fracture on a skeleton
    Michael Malkoch is professor at KTH and founder of Biomedical Bonding.
    Published May 22, 2025

    Soon, you might be able to mend bone fractures with glue. At Greenhouse Labs on KTH Campus, KTH spinoff Biomedical Bonding is developing a new solution: an adhesive to fix complex bone fractures. KTH ...

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  • The KTH spinoff in the midst of Silicon Valley's AI rush

    Screenshot of SuperAnnotate's tool
    Published Apr 25, 2025

    SuperAnnotate, an alumni company from KTH Innovation Launch is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing AI startups, finishing 2024 with raising 36 million dollars. We checked in with founder Vahan Pet...

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  • Axon Motion: The next generation of racing simulation

    Andreas and Henrik in the simulator
    Published Apr 16, 2025

    Based on research from KTH, Henrik Hvitfeldt and Andreas Fröderberg have built a driving simulator with the potential to challenge the leading players in the industry. "We want every driver and racin...

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  • IKEA's top tips for startups

    Fyra personer på scen
    Published Mar 28, 2025

    Since 2022, KTH Innovation has been working to create closer collaboration between startups and industry. Last week, IKEA visited campus to share how they work with innovation, meet startups, and expl...

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  • Safer green hydrogen production to reduce emissions in industry

    Rutvika & Joýdeep in the lab
    Published Mar 28, 2025

    In KTH Professor Joydeep Dutta's lab, researchers have developed technology that can make the production of green hydrogen safer, cheaper, and scalable. With spinoff company Caplyzer, they are now aim...

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  • KTH Innovation among Europe's best

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    “Many of Sweden's most promising startups emerge from KTH and it's great that this is being recognized” says Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation, next to Anders Söderholm, KTH's president (Photo: KTH)
    Published Feb 27, 2025

    Latest Financial Times ranking places KTH Innovation among the best startup hubs in Europe. Particularly good marks are given to the efforts in sustainability.

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  • KTH ramps up efforts creating deep-tech companies of the future

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    Hannes Eder Öhrström, business development coach at KTH Innovation (left) in conversation with entrepreneurs Sandra Jernström, a researcher turned entrepreneur with experience in several deep tech startups, and Per Aniansson, with over 20 years in venture capital. Both will collaborate with Pioneer. Photo: Patrik Lundmark.
    Published Feb 18, 2025

    KTH Innovation and KTH Holding launch Pioneer, a programme that brings together research projects with entrepreneurs in a new way.

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  • Driving global impact through internationalization

    Published Feb 11, 2025

    To create even more successful startups that can contribute to European competitiveness and help solve urgent societal challenges, KTH Innovation is stepping up our efforts on the international arena....

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  • Kickoff for KTH Innovation Launch - meet the 15 latest KTH startups

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    Ngai Nam Chan is one of the founders of the spacetech startup AciSpace, one of the teams joining KTH Innovation Launch.
    Published Jan 22, 2025

    15 new startups founded by students and researchers at KTH are starting their journey in KTH Innovation Launch. From heat-resistant potato crops to more efficient e-bike propulsion – meet Batch 20!

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  • Inaugural innovation summit garnered international attention

    A man in a KTH shirt talking to a woman seated at a table
    Published Jul 03, 2024

    50 people from 15 countries gathered in Stockholm for the inaugural KTH Innovation Readiness Level Summit last week.

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