Radboudumc Investment Day 2025
A recap to the 5th edition
The day was opened by Mayor Bruls of Nijmegen, who attended the event in honor of its lustrum. The mayor emphasized the importance of forging new connections to successfully bring innovations to market and urged all attendees to actively pursue this goal. He also highlighted Nijmegen’s strengths as a breeding ground for innovation—a city with a rich history and a young, highly educated, and creative population.
The keynote speaker was Rinke Zonneveld, CEO of Invest-NL. In a conversation with Wieteke Numan from Oost NL, he discussed current developments in Dutch health companies. Zonneveld pointed out a growing challenge for early-stage companies: securing enough funding to make the leap from start-up to scale-up. He called on the attending investors to join Invest-NL in putting more energy (and courage) into taking risks.
As in previous years, the day’s program focused on fostering new connections from our target groups investors, entrepreneurs & researchers. In addition to informative sessions, there was ample opportunity for one-on-one meetings, which could be scheduled in advance or during the event via a matching tool. Others met spontaneously during breaks, networking drinks, and the dinner afterwards.
PhD candidate Angela Soares won the event’s poster competition. Her research explores the use of integrated sensing cell-signatures (ISS) to detect infected joint prostheses. This method has the potential to identify infections much faster and more patient-friendly than current diagnostic techniques.
This year, we also hosted the final round of the Venture Challenge on drug repurposing. The Radboudumc team SAVE emerged as the winner. SAVE aims to repurpose the drug Sirolimus for rare congenital vascular anomalies, where it has shown high effectiveness. They received a €20,000 incentive prize to further develop their initiative.
Facts & figures:
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5th edition, opened by Mayor Bruls
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230+ attendees
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20 speakers
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7 product demonstration
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8 scientific posters for the competition
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280+ 1-on-1 meetings
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more than 7.000 meeting minutes
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210 lunches, 190 drinks&bites, 100 dinners
Feedback & Successes:
We look back on another succesful edition of this event and hope you feel the same way! Please share your feedback & successes with us, we'd love to hear both! You can email marion.schouten@briskr.nl .
See you next year!
We are happy to inform you that we have a new date for another day full of matchmaking & inspiring sessions; The next event is scheduled on Wednesday October 7, 2026 at Radboudumc Experience Center in Nijmegen! Please make a note in your schedule, we will email you when the registration will be opened early next year!
An impression
Here's a quick impression of the 2025 event.
Photo gallery
Please find below a link to the full photo gallery. Please email to marion.schouten@briskr.nl if you do not agree with a picture, we can always remove it at your request. And if you want a download of a picture, please also contact Marion (send a screenshot or explain which picture you seek).