Xenomatix - a Success Story of Enterprise Europe Network

A vision of the future in the headlights of self-driving cars
The car of the future will be ultra-comfortable, safe AND driverless. The story of how this could come to pass started with three laser technology researchers in a garage in Leuven, Belgium, 10 years ago backed up with advice from the Enterprise Europe Network.
"Our goals were, and still are, to develop a totally disruptive technology to make distance measurements based on light," recounts Filip Geuens, founder and CEO of XenomatiX. The company now occupies a two-storey building in the Leuven Research Park with a fully operational calibration lab. "We named our start-up XenomatiX after the amazing element ‘xenon’, commonly used for high-end vehicle lighting, and ‘matix’, referring to automation," he tells us.
Delivering 'the eyes' of self-driving cars is a tall order. The XenomatiX team were well aware that their goals were very challenging. They wanted to develop the new multi-beam solid-state LIDAR (laser) technology from scratch. So, they contacted their local Enterprise Europe Network office, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO), one of the hosts of Enterprise Europe Network. "The development time for this technology is very long and it’s very difficult to find finance that will be sustainable. We knew that VLAIO’s mission is to support start-ups for R&D and finance, as well as offer good, sound advice for company strategy," Filip explains.
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