We recently published an overview of the MedTech and BioTech innovation cluster at High Tech Campus Eindhoven.
This article, the fourth and last in the series, highlights all supporting service and facility providers, including business support, technical services (product development, testing and components), facilities, venturing and investors and ecosystem partners.
The first article introduced the 70+ organizations fundamentally shaping healthcare innovation at HTCE.
The second article showcased the innovations that make this ecosystem so important and so powerful, including companies developing robotic precision systems, intelligent diagnostics, continuous monitoring wearables and AI-driven software.
The third article showcased the companies focused on implants therapeutic devices, smart biomaterials and the very important research institutions that develop technologies to fuel the MedTech and BioTech companies of tomorrow.
Just as a thriving natural ecosystem requires more than keystone species to flourish, the MedTech innovation community at HTCE depends on a robust network of specialized business support services that enable companies to navigate the complex journey from concept to commercialization.
In the natural world, an ecosystem is a community where plants, animals and other organisms and their non-living environment interact together within a defined area. The same is true at High Tech Campus. The thriving MedTech ecosystem consists of medical device companies such as Salvia BioElectronics and Sirius Medical, but many other “organisms” contribute to their growth to get them where they are now.
More than one third of all HTCE companies consider themselves startups or scale-ups. MedTech startups and scale-ups need specialized services, including patents, legal guidance and compliance training, for example.
Let’s now take a look into this important supporting layer of the tech cluster and ecosystem.
Download the entire overview of the more than 70 MedTech & BioTech-focused companies at HTCE.
These essential partners provide the legal expertise, regulatory guidance, intellectual property protection and strategic counsel that MedTech startups and scale-ups need to transform breakthrough technologies into market-ready products while maintaining compliance in one of the world's most heavily regulated industries.
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Below are the HTCE residents located here because of the great need for their services, including:
Technical services providers at HTCE play a crucial role in advancing MedTech product development, turning complex ideas into certified, market-ready devices with speed and precision.
Offering expertise in engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and scaling, these partners help innovators accelerate time-to-market while navigating demanding regulatory requirements.
Their integrated approach makes the Campus a launchpad for breakthrough medical technologies and next-generation healthcare solutions, driving efficiency and real-world impact across the ecosystem.
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3T supplies specialized electromechanical components and systems to medical technology companies, including solenoid actuators, electromagnetic brakes, pneumatic systems, and embedded electronics solutions. 3T worked with Sirius Medical, located at HTC 41, to develop the innovative Sirius Pintuition System, which enables millimeter-precise, non-radioactive localization of tumors for breast-conserving surgery.
3T’s solutions range from high-performance laser safety systems to intelligent surgical equipment controls, all designed with the precision and reliability required for critical medical applications.
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Compen Embedded is a medical software company focused on crafting firmware that improves lives. It specializes in developing custom embedded software solutions for medical devices and technology, bringing technical expertise to the healthcare sector. The company offers development services and consultancy, helping medical technology companies build reliable, life-enhancing products through its firmware engineering capabilities.
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Enginio provides design, manufacturing, and complex prototyping services to help startups and established companies with everything from complex, one-off prototypes to small-scale production runs. It creates mechatronic prototypes and tooling and supports production at any scale for a diverse range of industries, including the MedTech sector.
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L&T Technology Services (LTTS) is a global engineering research and development company that delivers digital engineering and product development solutions across mobility, sustainability and technology sectors. It specializes in AI-powered innovation, helping clients in industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to semiconductors and medical technology accelerate transformation through intelligent engineering solutions.
With more than $1.35 billion in revenue and operations across 25+ countries, LTTS combines deep domain expertise with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence to solve complex engineering challenges and drive sustainable innovation.
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Vention is an end-to-end product development company that transforms ideas into industrialized products. The scale-up provides comprehensive expertise from initial concept and prototype through to production and post-launch support, specializing in smart and connected devices.
Vention’s diverse portfolio demonstrates significant impact across multiple sectors, including healthcare technology. Vention collaborated with HTCE resident Plasmacure to develop an innovative wound healing device that applies bactericidal cold plasma directly to chronic wounds for faster healing. This project required the Vention team to adopt a regulatory mindset and gain deep expertise in medical certification processes.
Read about Vention’s startup journey at HTCE here and watch the video here.
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XIVER operates as a specialized MEMS (Micro-electromechanical Systems) foundry in the former Philips facility at HTCE. XIVER combines electrical and mechanical functions on a microscale. It manufactures thin film and MEMS components, including membranes, filters and ultrasound sensors, with a particular focus on super-small ultrasound sensors, groundbreaking for the medical market.
XIVER's MEMS technology enables the development of portable, high-quality medical devices, particularly in ultrasonic imaging. The technology allows for patches that generate accurate medical images through very small skin-applied devices, replacing the bulky equipment previously required and making healthcare more accessible and efficient.
Using design-for-excellence principles, XIVER enables seamless transitions from R&D to manufacturing for MedTech companies at HTCE. XIVER is seen as a vital manufacturing partner, leveraging decades of Philips heritage expertise while serving the medical sector along with automotive and high-tech industry.
XIVER was purchased from Philips in March 2025 and now operates as an independent MEMS foundry.
Testing and validation services at HTCE ensure MedTech innovations meet the highest standards for safety, quality and compliance. Advanced laboratories offer specialized expertise in materials analysis, reliability testing, electromagnetic compatibility and wireless connectivity for medical devices.
These technical partners accelerate product development by providing rapid diagnostics, regulatory support and long-term research solutions essential for high-tech medical manufacturing and healthcare delivery.
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Eurofins Material Analysis Lab specializes in materials analysis and reliability investigation of high-tech products, including medical equipment. Formerly Philips' Materials Analysis lab and acquired by Eurofins EAG in 2018, the lab provides chemical analysis, contamination control and failure analysis services.
The lab supports the MedTech ecosystem through expertise in analyzing medical devices, performing quality control and providing cleanroom contamination control. Their specialists offer both rapid problem-solving and long-term research support for high-tech manufacturing challenges.
Eurofins Reliability Lab focuses on reliability testing services including environmental simulation, Highly Accelerated Lifetime Testing (HALT), mechanical testing and permeability testing. The Eurofins Reliability Lab collaborates closely with the Eurofins Material Analysis Lab to provide complete failure analysis packages for companies focused on MedTech.
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Signify operates an ISO17025 accredited lab at HTCE. The Signify Innovation Lab – the “EMC Testing Laboratory” provides electromagnetic compatibility and wireless connectivity testing for medical products. This specialized facility supports MedTech companies with critical testing services needed for product development and regulatory compliance.
In addition, Signify’s connected lighting solutions help enhance patient well-being, support staff performance and streamline workflows, helping deliver exceptional care while improving operational efficiency. Signify’s smart, energy-efficient lighting is not just illuminating spaces but also shaping the future of healthcare.
Behind every successful medical device lies a foundation of precision-engineered components, the sensors, optics, motors and specialized chips that transform innovative concepts into functioning clinical tools.
These enabling technologies, from miniaturized spectral sensors that analyze biological materials in real-time to ultra-precise drive systems that power surgical instruments, represent the critical building blocks that MedTech innovators integrate into their solutions, often determining the difference between a promising prototype and a device that meets the exacting standards of medical applications.
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ams develops advanced light and sensor solutions for healthcare applications. It manufactures extremely small cameras for endoscopy, for example, as well as new photon counting for medical X-ray and optical components and modules in smartwatches to monitor heart rate. Its CT and X-ray sensor arrays, vital signs sensors and temperature sensors, to name a few, are used in advanced non-invasive diagnostics and therapies to improve health and wellness.
Read the ams company profile here.
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FAULHABER Drive Systems is a leading manufacturer of precision drive systems that play a critical – but often invisible – role in the healthcare industry. From dental hand pieces with ultra-low vibrations to medical imaging systems delivering sharp diagnostics, FAULHABER's drive technology operates behind the scenes in prophylaxis, diagnostics, robot-assisted surgery, rehabilitation devices and prosthetics. FAULHABER’S broad portfolio of drive systems and accessories serves medical applications where failure is not an option.
For example, FAULHABER's drives excel in handheld medical devices, operating at speeds up to 100,000 rpm while maintaining comfortable temperatures, with compact, autoclavable options for space-constrained sterile environments. In surgical robotics, its ironless winding technology enables the precise haptic feedback surgeons need for accurate incisions.
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MantiSpectra is a TU/e spin-off that developed a chip-based near-infrared spectrometer that uses light to analyze the chemical composition of materials. It has miniaturized spectral sensing technology into a single chip, enabling portable, real-time material analysis across multiple industries.
MantiSpectra also provides point-of-care spectral sensors that can be deployed directly where needed. The technology enables medical applications such as non-invasive diagnostics and real-time monitoring of biological materials, supporting faster and more accessible healthcare solutions at the patient's location rather than requiring laboratory analysis.
Specialized facilities and innovation hubs form the physical infrastructure that transforms HTCE from a collection of individual companies into a cohesive, vibrant ecosystem.
These purpose-built spaces, from GMP-compliant cleanrooms for biomaterial production to AI innovation centers and BioTech laboratories, provide MedTech startups, scale-ups and others in the ecosystem, with access to expensive, specialized equipment and environments they couldn't afford independently.
By co-locating companies with complementary expertise and shared resources under one roof, these facilities accelerate development timelines, foster serendipitous collaboration and lower the barriers to entry for innovators bringing breakthrough healthcare solutions to market.
High Tech Campus Eindhoven: Dubbed the “smartest square kilometer in Europe, High Tech Campus Eindhoven is a leading innovation hub with more than 300 companies and institutes and more than 12,000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs working on technologies of the future.
For the 26 years since Philips NatLab opened its gates to outside companies, HTCE has grown into an intricate open innovation ecosystem where startups, scale-ups and established corporations of all sizes collaborate across disciplines.
HTCE provides state-of-the-art facilities, including laboratories, cleanrooms and prototyping spaces, and starting in 2025, will begin construction of a photonics chip pilot production factory. Besides technical services and corporate headquarters of major multinationals business, there is a wealth of business support services that help accelerate scientific breakthroughs – many “medical firsts” – into commercial products.
For the MedTech and BioTech sectors specifically, HTCE offers specialized infrastructure and a unique “cluster” effect that brings together expertise in medical devices, diagnostics, digital health and life sciences. HTCE hosts dedicated BioTech facilities and connects companies with research institutions such as TNO, imec and Holst Centre and nearby TU/e, fostering clinical validation and rapid iteration.
In addition to programs focused on healthcare innovation, HTCE facilitates access to venture building, funding, regulatory expertise and partnerships with major players such as Philips, creating an environment where MedTech and BioTech ventures can accelerate development from concept to market solutions.
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Smart BioMaterials Consortium (SBMC) provides high-quality facilities for the industrialization of smart biomaterials and biodegradable implants used for regenerative medicine-based technologies.
For the MedTech sector, SBMC solves a critical commercialization bottleneck by offering flexible, high-spec cleanrooms for pilot production of medical devices, biomaterials and implants through a new GMP cleanroom facility. This facility, opening mid-2025, provides MedTech companies with ready-to-use, compliant cleanroom rental options, eliminating the need to build their own expensive facilities.
Beyond its coveted cleanrooms, SBMC strengthens the regional ecosystem through strategic partnerships. In December 2024, SBMC signed agreements with HTCE, TU/e, and other regional partners to position Brainport as the key international hub for smart biomaterials development. Its €4M investment in shared manufacturing infrastructure serves as a springboard for MedTech startups and scale-ups. Combined with technical and regulatory expertise, it significantly shortens the time to market for companies transforming the healthcare landscape.
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TWICE offers young, innovative technology companies business housing and development support in two high tech hotspots in the Brainport region: High Tech Campus Eindhoven and Eindhoven University of Technology. At HTCE, TWICE offers two R&D hubs, Mµ and βèta, where growing companies benefit from a vibrant high-tech community, high quality offices, laboratories and access to a regional network of investors, advisors and tech companies in the TWICE community.
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CUREON: A new innovation center for MedTech & BioTech opened at High Tech Campus Eindhoven on October 1, 2025. It’s a collaboration between HTCE and Smart Biomaterials Consortium (SBMC) with support from Brainport Development and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM).
The center provides shared workspaces, laboratories and GMP-compliant cleanrooms for pilot production at clinical standards. Combined with expert guidance and strong partner links, these facilities help innovators turn early research into market-ready healthcare solutions more efficiently.
The center addresses a critical need in the Brainport region, which hosts more than 350 MedTech companies and produces 90% of Dutch MedTech patents and nearly half of the national life sciences output.
SBMC operates 400 square meters of cleanroom and laboratory space specifically for developing and pilot-producing biomaterial-based resorbable implants, offering technical and regulatory support that can significantly shorten time to market for startups.
Venture builders, accelerator programs and deep-tech investors at HTCE play a pivotal role in turning breakthrough technologies into viable companies.
From talent-driven venture creation to specialized funding and R&D programs, these partners connect innovation to capital and expertise. Their combined impact strengthens the Campus’ position as a European hub for deep-tech entrepreneurship, especially in MedTech, health and sustainable technology domains.
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HighTechXL is the Netherlands’ only deep-tech venture builder. The team scouts advanced technologies and then recruits talent to form teams that take the tech to market. MedTech alumni companies include Bambi Medical, VitalWear and SonicPrecision.
Imec.istart (partner of AI Innovation Center and 3EALITY) supports tech entrepreneurs, offering a coaching program backed by imec and an initial pre-seed investment to accelerate growth and attract additional funding. Through this collaboration, startups from the High Tech Campus innovation hubs have a direct connection to the program.
Innovation Industries is a deep-tech venture capital fund of €500M. It invests in startups and scale-ups in the Benelux and Germany and has been instrumental in funding HTCE companies, including leading a $60M investing round in MedTech scale-up Salvia BioElectronics as well as other MedTech companies not based at Campus.
LUMO Labs is a venture capital firm with a bespoke venture program for founders. LUMO Labs invests heavily in digital health startups. Of the 30 LUMO Labs portfolio companies, 11 are MedTech startups.
DeepTechXL is a €110M venture capital fund for deep-tech startups. The investment team focuses on four key societal themes: Energy Transition & Sustainability, Security, Agriculture, Water & Food and Health & Care. Gilbert closed a €7M investment round in June 2023 led by DeepTechXL.
NXTGEN Hightech is a Dutch National Growth Fund program which includes partners High Tech NL, Holland High Tech, TNO, BOM, Oost NL, Innovation Quarter, FME and many Dutch technical universities. The R&D initiative is creating next-generation equipment for applications such as medicinal development and medical instrument production.
The strength of the HTCE MedTech ecosystem extends beyond its physical boundaries, drawing vital support from regional partners who provide essential research capabilities, talent development and innovation infrastructure.
These organizations, from leading universities that generate breakthrough technologies and skilled graduates to collaborative programs addressing healthcare's biggest challenges, create the interconnected network of knowledge, resources and expertise that enables MedTech innovation to flourish at Campus and throughout the Brainport region.
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Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also plays a crucial role to the MedTech and BioTech ecosystem at HTCE. It actively invests in life sciences and MedTech startups and scale-ups in the Brabant region.
Smart healthcare innovations are key to keeping healthcare vital, effective and affordable. But a good idea alone isn’t enough. BOM supports entrepreneurs in bringing innovations to market and patients faster. Its approach includes developing, investing and internationalizing MedTech and BioTech companies.
BOM shares knowledge, develops networks and provides capital to innovative Brabant companies, making them a key financial and strategic partner for the MedTech ecosystem at HTCE. With more than €1 billion in assets under management, BOM is renowned as the most active investor in Dutch startups.
BOM helps build ecosystems such as SBMC and connects entrepreneurs with knowledge institutions, hospitals and international clusters, such as the Mission for Life Sciences and Health to Houston, TX in early October 2025. In this way, BOM helps innovations reach patients faster and keeps Brabant at the forefront of European healthcare.
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Brainport Development is home to more than 350 MedTech companies and generates 90 percent of all national MedTech patents. Nearly half of the national life sciences and health production value originates here, making the region an ideal place to bring innovations to market
Brainport Development serves as the core orchestrator of the Brainport region innovation ecosystem, stimulating research in ground-breaking economically high-potential technologies and building dedicated clusters, with MedTech/BioTech being a focus.
Brainport Development provided support for the new CUREON MedTech & BioTech Innovation Center at HTCE, which was developed together with Smart BioMaterials Consortium (SBMC) and Brabant Development Agency (BOM)
Brainport Development collaborates closely with many partners, sharing knowledge and smart entrepreneurship, and works together with the business community, knowledge institutions and governments to strengthen the regional economy. In addition, they promote Brainport Development in the Netherlands and abroad to help attract companies, talent and investment to the region.
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Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a crucial partner to the HTCE MedTech ecosystem as a leading knowledge institution that fosters innovation, provides highly skilled talent with advanced medical and technical degrees and drives research and development through its direct participation in key initiatives such as the Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC).
TU/e is a core partner in e/MTIC, a large-scale research collaboration that creates a fast track for sustainable clinical innovations, connecting researchers, clinicians and industry. Beyond e/MTIC, TU/e actively engages in co-creation with companies, knowledge institutes and startups on the High Tech Campus.
TU/e has generated more than 100 technology companies, including notable MedTech spinoffs. Several of these spinoffs are now located at HTCE, including ShanX MedTech, STENTiT and VIVOLTA.
TU/e's expertise in technology and its commitment to open innovation enable collaborations with hospitals, companies and startups, accelerating the creation, implementation and scaling of high-tech health solutions within the Brainport region's powerful industrial, academic and governmental network … that coveted “triple helix” we reference so often.
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Eindhoven Engine: Future Proof Care addresses major healthcare challenges including rising costs, an aging population and the shortage of healthcare professionals.
As a joint initiative of TU/e, Fontys, and TNO located at the TU/e Campus, the program works on transforming healthcare through innovation and research. While Eindhoven Engine operates from TU/e Campus rather than HTCE, it contributes to the broader Brainport MedTech ecosystem through its focus on developing accessible, sustainable and affordable healthcare solutions. The program connects academic research with real-world healthcare innovation challenges that benefit the region's MedTech sector.
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LifetecZONe is an independent network for entrepreneurs in Life Sciences and Medical Technology based in Southern Netherlands. It primarily serves businesses in the North Brabant, Limburg and Zeeland regions.
Founded in 2008, LifetecZONe accelerates medical innovation, bringing together the entire value chain in medical technology and life sciences with interactive networking events and knowledge-sharing sessions. The network consists of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) but is open to knowledge institutions, healthcare providers, government organizations and other regional partners who want to collaborate and innovate in the healthcare technology sector.
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Provincie Noord-Brabant: The Province of North Brabant plays a crucial role in supporting the MedTech and BioTech ecosystem at HTCE with strategic partnerships and infrastructure development. Together with BOM (Brabant Development Agency) and Brainport Development, the Province is building a robust MedTech ecosystem that fosters innovation and tech-to-market collaborations, with BOM managing over €1 billion in assets and serving as one of the most active investors in Dutch startups.
The province supported the development of CUREON, the new MedTech and BioTech innovation center that opened in October 2025, which provides companies with 400 m² of GMP-compliant cleanrooms and laboratory facilities. Provincie Noord-Brabant recognizes that its strength extends beyond deep tech and semiconductors to include BioTech and MedTech, and they actively work to increase the visibility and support for this sector in the region.
Download the entire overview of 70+ MedTech & BioTech companies at HTCE.