News item | 04-01-2023 | 9:00 am
A large Dutch delegation of seventy innovative companies will be at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in Las Vegas from 5 to 8 January. The CES is the most influential tech fair in the world where 40 startups and 30 scale-ups from the Netherlands present their technologies, products or services to the international market and to potential investors. In advance, 13 Dutch companies have already been identified as very promising by the organization and have received a so-called Innovation Award for this. The Netherlands is taking part for the seventh time.
The 70 Dutch participants will receive guidance from, among others, the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Foreign Affairs and are here to find. The CES takes place annually with more than 170,000 companies and investors from some 160 countries.
Over the past six years, more than 250 Dutch companies have visited the stock exchange. For many of them, the CES a breakthrough. Those companies are estimated to have provided nearly 10,000 high-quality jobs nationwide since joining. Through technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum, these Dutch representatives contribute to solutions for climate change, data security and drug development, for example.
CES 2023: more Dutch scale-ups
For the first time, almost half of the Dutch delegation consists of scale-ups. The desire arose to present more larger growth companies (scale-ups) from the Netherlands at the CES this edition. For that reason, the so-called ‘NL Tech Pavilion’ two pavilions at CES 2023 for the second year in a row. In the ‘Netherlands Tech Square’ are the forty newest and best startups. In addition, about thirty scale-ups offer their innovative solutions in the ‘Netherlands Next Level Innovations Pavilion’.
One of those scale-ups is LeydenJar from Leiden. The company has developed a technique that can increase the capacity of lithium batteries by 70 percent and recently announced an investment of 30 million euros by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build a new factory in the Netherlands. Another participant is Rotterdam RanMarine that builds a device that can collect and clean up waste in the water like a petty thief.
The participating companies come from all over the country and represent a wide range of solutions. The Eindhoven Alpha beats for example, goes into battle with the global burnout problems. The company developed software that can adjust a user’s music using biofeedback. By measuring how the body responds to music, and then using artificial intelligence (AI) to change the frequencies, music is created that puts the brain into relaxation mode more quickly. Naya from Groningen presents a completely new keyboard at CES that is much more ergonomic than the version we have known for decades.
QuiX Quantum from Enschede develops the most powerful Quantum Photonics Processor with enormous computing power to tackle the major societal challenges in the field of climate change, data security and drug development. Last autumn, the company received an investment of 14 million euros from the German space institute to install the first European quantum computer there.