PortXL accelerates maritime start-ups in Rotterdam

Dutch maritime start-up accelerator - PortXL presented its 2024 cohort at the RDM, the Rotterdam space for innovative companies, technology education, high-quality test facilities and field labs. 

Ten start-ups and scale-ups presented themselves and were connected to partners, mentors and members of the Rotterdam and Dutch innovation ecosystem, that will assist them in the coming months.

PortXL’ s partners and stakeholders

Mitja Caboni, Acceleration Manager at PortXL introduced the new cohort and Linda Treuman, Community Manager, assigned mentors to them at the Matchmaking Monday mentor lunch session.

Several PortXL alumni shared their experiences with the new cohort. Later in the day, representatives of PortXL’ s partners and other stakeholders also joined in to ‘meet and greet’ and learn about the new technologies. 

Innovators to the PortXL programme

For PortXL’s team this was the conclusion of months of gathering industry questions and problems

For the partners and PortXL’s team this was the conclusion of months of gathering industry questions and problems, and finding and evaluating start-ups and scale-ups to match these challenges.

In the coming months the innovators will go through the programme with the goal of collaborating with industry players, pilot projects, investments and more.

Christel Pullens, Director at PortXL, says: "We are proud and excited to welcome these ten innovators to the PortXL programme and ecosystem and look forward to guiding them to both a higher level of maturity and to collaborations and customers."

Partners

Since 2015, PortXL has facilitated the growth of more than 120 start-up and scale-up companies. Working in close cooperation with its industry partners – lead partners - Port of Rotterdam and Van Oord, City of Rotterdam, Damen Shipyards, GTT and MINDbase – PortXL’s range of focus concentrates on the sustainable maritime, energy, logistics, and even defence sectors. 

The 10 start-ups/scale-ups

1. Akros Energy
2. Carbon Blue
3. CL Circular
4. Seadar
5. Fjuel
6. EME
7. HalioGen Power
8. Omniwind
9. SEAO2
10. Nauti