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Faculty of Impact

Impact Dashboard

Real societal impact takes years to surface. Until it does, the dashboard tracks paying customers, team size and external funding as the clearest near-term proxies.

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Impact DashboardLive
Total fellows
0Active participants
Companies incorporated
071% incorporation rate
Funding raised
€0.0Mdilutive + non-dilutive
Paying customers
05 fellows with customers
Total FTE
0.02.16 avg per fellow
IP / license deals
026% of fellows
Supported byUniversiteiten van Nederland, NWO, techleap.nl, Ministerie van OCW, Vereniging Hogescholen

Dutch universities turn researchers into founders.

The hard part isn't the science. It's proving the impact.

This dashboard makes it impossible to ignore.

Meet the founders

35 scientists. One mission each.

Behind every number is a researcher who left the lab to build. Ocean carbon capture, AI that reads cancer scans, fertilizer without the emissions. These are the people the dashboard tracks.

Rose SharifianEnergy Transition2024
Rose SharifianSeaO2 · TU Delft

Capturing CO₂ straight from the ocean.

Kiran Vaidhya VenkadeshHealth & Care2025
Kiran Vaidhya VenkadeshPlain Medical · Radboudumc

3D deep learning that spots lung and prostate cancer.

Hossein KarimiCircular Economy2024
Hossein KarimiCarbonsai · TU Eindhoven

Concrete with a 50%+ smaller carbon footprint.

Yvonne DerksHealth & Care2025
Yvonne DerksAurelius Therapeutics · Radboudumc

Targeted radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

Stas VerichevEnergy Transition2024
Stas VerichevVibroTwist · TU Delft

Silent, gentle pile-driving for offshore wind.

Anouk PostHealth & Care2025
Anouk PostLightUp · VU Amsterdam

A pill-sized camera with AI for early cancer detection.

Sem VijverbergEnergy Transition2024
Sem VijverbergBeyond Weather · VU Amsterdam

AI weather forecasts that beat the operational systems.

Nazma IlahibaksHealth & Care2025
Nazma IlahibaksJama Therapeutics · UMC Utrecht

Extracellular vesicles for safer gene therapy.

Rik van GorpEnergy Transition2024
Rik van GorpHeratec · TU Eindhoven

Porous electrodes for next-gen electrochemical devices.

Olivier LugierHealth & Care2025
Olivier LugierNano Hybrids · UvA

Safe-by-design nanoparticles for diagnostics.

Yari FoelenAgriculture, Water & Food2024
Yari FoelenUseeble · TU Eindhoven

Printable ink that flags temperature breaks in the cold chain.

Salma RianAgriculture, Water & Food2026
Salma RianHydra Peck · Wageningen

A smarter feeder for healthier chickens.

Roland BerdaguerAgriculture, Water & Food2026
Roland BerdaguerMicroBioLogicals · UvA

Microbes that fight crop pests, naturally.

Ali ElahinikCircular Economy2026
Ali ElahinikBiofire Polymer · TU Delft

Flame retardants made from wastewater sludge.

Sorin BuneaEnergy Transition2024
Sorin BuneaTU Delft

CO₂-free fertilizer from renewable electricity.

Tijmen BakkerEnergy Transition2024
Tijmen BakkerUvA

Solar cells that harvest indoor light, no battery needed.

Aytac YilmazEnergy Transition2024
Aytac YilmazTU Delft

Iron-air batteries for long-duration grid storage.

Mohammad KojourimaneshEnergy Transition2024
Mohammad KojourimaneshTU Eindhoven

Compact mufflers for hydrogen systems and heat pumps.

Florenz BußEnergy Transition2026
Florenz BußUvA

Greener electrolytes for safer sodium-ion batteries.

Felix PaulussenHealth & Care2025
Felix PaulussenVU Amsterdam

Peptide drugs targeting colorectal cancer.

Irati BeltranHealth & Care2025
Irati BeltranUtrecht University

Light-activated cancer drugs with minimal side effects.

Sebas PronkHealth & Care2025
Sebas PronkUtrecht University

Co-developing one-day, side-effect-free cancer therapy.

Emma MoonenHealth & Care2025
Emma MoonenTU Eindhoven

Non-invasive biomarker monitoring from sweat.

Joric Oude VrielinkHealth & Care2025
Joric Oude VrielinkTU Eindhoven

Precision needle placement for early lung biopsies.

Ewelina Węglarz-TomczakHealth & Care2025
Ewelina Węglarz-TomczakUvA

De novo drug design against Alzheimer's.

Arjan StoppelenburgHealth & Care2025
Arjan StoppelenburgUtrecht University

Tissue-specific therapy for autoimmune disease.

Carlos de LannoyHealth & Care2025
Carlos de LannoyTU Delft

Microscopy-based screening for protein drugs.

Patrick DekkerHealth & Care2025
Patrick DekkerLeiden University

Small molecules for blood cancers and autoimmune disease.

Alsya AffandiHealth & Care2026
Alsya AffandiAmsterdam UMC

Smarter cancer vaccines that train the immune system.

Amber WezenaarHealth & Care2026
Amber WezenaarPrincess Máxima Center

Immune cells engineered to destroy solid tumors.

Tim HogervorstHealth & Care2026
Tim HogervorstTU Eindhoven

Keeping cells alive through freezing for new treatments.

Mert AstamHealth & Care2026
Mert AstamTU Eindhoven

A smart ring that guides the deafblind through touch.

Fleur van EedenAgriculture, Water & Food2026
Fleur van EedenVU Amsterdam

Fermented foods for gut-brain health.

Carina NieuwenwegAgriculture, Water & Food2026
Carina NieuwenwegWageningen

Yeast microfactories for sustainable flavors.

Brigit van BrenkCircular Economy2026
Brigit van BrenkUtrecht University

Fungi that clean polluted water and recover value.

From many to the few

90,000 reached. 35 chosen.

Every cohort opens as a wide funnel: tens of thousands of visitors during recruiting season, a few hundred at the webinars, an institute shortlist, and finally the fellows NWO selects. The dashboard lays the whole drop-off bare.

90,000
300
90
35
Extra visitors
Webinar attendees0.3% pass-through
Institute selection30% pass-through
NWO-selected fellows39% pass-through
Accepted to exit

Every milestone on the road to impact.

From the day a fellow is accepted to the day they exit, the dashboard follows eight milestones and shows how far the whole cohort has come on each one. Early, honest, and impossible to fudge.

100%Accepted35/35
71%Incorporated25/35
57%Market validation20/35
43%Team hires15/35
51%External funding18/35
14%Paying customer5/35
0%First product0/35
0%Exit0/35
The network

Backed by the Netherlands' research system.

Eleven universities and medical centres, four impact domains, and the national bodies that fund them. The dashboard rolls all of it into one honest picture.

TU Eindhoven
TU Eindhoven8 fellows
TU Delft
TU Delft6 fellows
University of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam5 fellows
VU Amsterdam
VU Amsterdam4 fellows
Utrecht University
Utrecht University4 fellows
Radboudumc
Radboudumc2 fellows
Wageningen U&R
Wageningen U&R2 fellows
Leiden University
Leiden University1 fellow
UMC Utrecht
UMC Utrecht1 fellow
Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam UMC1 fellow
Princess Máxima Center
Princess Máxima Center1 fellow

See where the impact stands today.

The dashboard is live and public. No login, no gate. Just the numbers, cohort by cohort.

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