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Students and recent graduates face an extreme shortage of affordable housing, making individual homeownership nearly impossible. While buying a home collectively with a group of friends is a viable solution, the financial, legal, and organizational barriers are incredibly high. Traditional mortgages and legal frameworks are not suited for multi-owner group structures. This leaves young adults locked out of the housing market, unable to build equity or secure stable living conditions during a crucial phase of their lives.
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Lite
Creating high-quality, music-synchronized light shows is either very time-consuming, expensive, or both. Small venues can’t afford dedicated lighting operators and end up with generic or poorly timed lights, while large events spend huge amounts of time manually programming and time-coding shows. There’s a need for a tool that keeps creative control in human hands but removes the repetitive, technical work making it easier and faster to build, test, and run professional light shows at any scale.
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BioDetect Diapers
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most frequent and impactful health issues among elderly people (in particular woman) living in long-term care facilities. This is the case due to atypical symptoms, cognitive decline, and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB), which on its way can lead to delayed diagnosis, inappropriate antibiotic use, and costly hospitalizations. This leads to unnecesasary discomfort and a decline in overall health. At the same time, caregivers are left managing frequent diaper changes, more complex care needs, and rising treatment costs. Which all could be prevented by earlier UTI diagnosis.
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LogicLayer
Industrial distributors process complex, high-stakes orders via messy "analog inbound", emails with blurry photos of rusted nameplates, 40-page foreign manuals, and hand-drawn sketches. Processing these manually means highly-paid sales engineers waste hours playing data-entry clerk just to extract basic specs. Because processing is chronological, a lucrative €50,000 engine order can sit unread while an engineer wastes 40 minutes deciphering a €500 pump request. This bottleneck costs companies major deals. Worse, generic AI cannot solve this because it hallucinates technical specs and poses massive data privacy risks when fed proprietary ERP data.
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STACKED
Students struggle to eat well, not because they lack awareness, but because their environment makes healthy choices difficult. Time is limited, cooking feels complicated, fresh ingredients spoil quickly, and nutrition advice is overwhelming. Affordable options are often unhealthy, while healthier options require planning, knowledge, and effort. As a result, students default to what is fastest and easiest rather than what is balanced or nutritious. The core need is not more information about healthy eating, but a practical system that removes friction and makes balanced meals simple, accessible, and achievable within the realities of student life.
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fevy.app
Planning and sharing social events today is fragmented and inefficient. Event details are scattered across calendars, messaging apps, and platforms, forcing people to manually copy information, chase updates, and miss changes. Existing tools separate private and public events and rely on outdated sharing models, while informal social gatherings remain unmanaged or undiscovered. As a result, organizers waste time coordinating, participation drops, and newcomers struggle to access local social and cultural life.
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Memora
Cognitive health is an increasingly critical concern. More than 55 million people live with dementia, a number expected to nearly double by 2050, with Alzheimer’s disease accounting for 60–70% of cases. While age is the strongest risk factor, especially after 65, cognitive decline is not a normal part of aging. Declining cognitive health significantly impacts daily functioning, making it difficult to manage quotidian tasks. Addressing these challenges requires effective, accessible solutions that support memory, safety, and autonomy in everyday life.
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Playce
We live in a time where we are more connected than ever, yet many people feel deeply disconnected. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that the world is our playground. Even when surrounded by others, it’s easy to feel alone, stuck in routine, and unsure how to step outside it. Many want to try new things, meet people, or simply feel more present, but taking the first step feels awkward or overwhelming. There is a growing need for simple ways to rediscover curiosity, spontaneity, and human connection in everyday life.
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Kolibair
Emergency services, especially fire brigades, often lack fast, reliable aerial awareness that regular crews can deploy and operate with minimal training. Today’s quadcopter drones used in emergencies are often expensive, limiting availability across brigades, and typically fly only 30-45 minutes, forcing frequent, time-consuming battery swaps during critical incident phases. They also struggle to cover larger areas and usually require constant pilot attention, while helicopters are costly and not always available. The result is delays and blind spots in tracking fire spread, locating hotspots, and searching for missing people - so crews sometimes abandon drones when they become impractical.
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Memento.AI
On 1 January 2025, the Netherlands had 3,755,679 inhabitants aged 65 years and over. This represents 20.8 percent of the population. People want to age in the comfort of their own homes, yet most existing houses are not designed to support aging. Renovation costs are high, and the decision-making process is complex. Moreover, home adaptation is not a one-time fix but a long-term need tied to a user’s evolving physical data and habits. Current solutions are too static and fail to provide ongoing, personalized guidance for safe renovation.
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