Every year, around 15 startups and spinoffs from KTH take their first steps on the international market in the Brighter program.
Greenely
"We got incredibly useful information from the external meetings. For me personally, it was important and interesting to be able to spend time with other talented entrepreneurs and to open my eyes to an international perspective, but also to feel the atmosphere and experience the entire startup environment over there."
- Tanmoy Bari, founder of
Greenely
. Greenely joined the program in Silicon Valley in 2014. It is now one of Sweden's fastest-growing energy companies.
ImagiLabs
"We loved visiting organizations around the city, meeting with founders, and having conversations with the others in the program. We tend to get stuck in our own problems, so it was great to hear what the others were struggling with, doing well or are doing better than us. It was a great boost for our personal motivation!"
- Dora Palfi, founder of
ImagiLabs
. Participated in the Brighter program in 2018. Their app has been highlighted in Apple's keynotes and has been installed by 150k+ coders in 99 countries.
iPercept
"The Brighter program helped us understand what it takes to enter the German market so that we could set a realistic timeline and strategy. We also learned several practical aspects, which together with the network we got helped us get to where we are today when we have our first customers in Germany."
- Károly Szipka, KTH researcher and founder of
IPercept
. Participated in the Brighter Program in Munich 2019. Today, their solution is used by the leading industrial companies in Sweden and Europe.
The teams in the Brighter Program
2023
In 2023, the teams in the Brighter Program traveled to Munich, Germany, and Silicon Valley, US.
