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LipoCoat wins top ten list of most groundbreaking innovations in science

May 15, 2019

AMSTERDAM, 15 MAY 2019 LipoCoat wins top ten list of most groundbreaking innovations in science LipoCoat is one of the ten winners of the Academic Startup Competition. This was announced by a professional jury in Amsterdam in the presence of State Secretary for...

LipoCoat is proud to announce that our quality management system has been certified according to the standard ISO 13485:2016

Apr 11, 2019

LipoCoat is proud to announce that our quality management system has been certified according to the standard ISO 13485:2016 This success is a result of our continuous efforts to provide high quality coating designs for our customers. Therefore developing and...

600,000 euro seed funding Dutch biotech coating startup

Jul 13, 2017

LipoCoat BV, a spin-off from the MESA+ nanotechnology institute from the University of Twente, gathered nearly 600.000 euro funding. This milestone was reached with grants from the government, a loan from Redmedtech Ventures and recent investments from LLX2...

LipoCoat celebrated micro-nano startup of the year 2016

Dec 29, 2016

The highly promising company LipoCoat, from the Eastern Netherland’s city of Enschede won the second edition of the MicroNano Start-Up of the Year contest. At the closure of the two day International MicroNano Conference in Amsterdam LipoCoat’s Director of Business...

LipoCoat officially founded

Sep 2, 2016

The University of Twente startup LipoCoat BV develops unique coatings for e.g. medical devices. The coatings are designed to improve performance, safety and comfort of medical devices but can also be used in, for example, R&D applications. By founding LipoCoat BV, the...

Jasper van Weerd (LipoCoat) wins audience award business pitch NanoCity 2015

Dec 8, 2015

During NanoCity ’15 Jasper van Weerd (LipoCoat) won the audience award for pitching LipoCoat. Source: http://www.nanonextnl.nl/nanocity-2015-complete-programme/

5 years MESA+: 120,000 hours research (including LipoCoat)

Dec 2, 2015

The NanoLab of the University of Twente has been in existence for five years. In 2010, King Willem Alexander - Prince at the time - came to Enschede for the opening of the largest research lab for nanotechnology in the Netherlands. In those five years a lot of...

Interview Jasper van Weerd – Technical Week magazine

Nov 12, 2015

Thanks to an innovative discovery of a new Twente-based company, there will be no flicker and rubbing for wearers of contact lenses: the biobased nano coating of the company LipoCoat helps to prevent eye irritation. Interview...

LipoCoat awarded NanoLabNL voucher

Oct 23, 2015

NanoLabNL, the cooperative consortium of research institutes in the field of nanotechnology infrastructure, presented ten vouchers to new industrial users of our NanoLabNL facilities. The vouchers, worth € 7,500 each, entitle holders to 50 – 75 hours of independent...

Jasper van Weerd (LipoCoat) winner of best pitch Holland-innovative health event 2015

Oct 11, 2015

Jasper van Weerd (LipoCoat) winner of best pitch Holland-Innovative Health event ’15 in the category “Best implementation of Six Sigma and product development methods”....