Holloid
Innovative Solution
Holloid's 24/7, real-time, image-based inline monitoring helps producers of pharmaceuticals, food, beverages, and other products to develop new products and processes, reduce costs and GHG footprint, improve quality, and raise safety.
Producers of pharmaceuticals, food and beverages etc., need to monitor microbes in their processes. This includes quality control and fermentation. Existing technologies include manual microscopy and plating. They offer only limited automation, throughput, and data quality. As a result, the producers face inefficiencies and losses of 5-50% in their production. By getting better information with an automated solution, customers can optimize their production, detect contaminations, and thereby save resources, energy, machine time and labor. This can increase their productivity by 10-100%.
We sell devices, bundled with software/analysis as a service.
Holloid's technology is the only one to enable automated, inline, real-time, high-throughput holographic microscopy. We provide superior insights on many more cells, bacteria, yeasts, microalgae, and other particles faster and easier than anyone else.
Founding challenges
Product-Market fit: Holloid’s technology can serve a broad range of applications – from food, via pharma and green chemistry to environmental monitoring and academic research. Carving out a go-to-market strategy required access to experts, structured analysis, and courage.
IP Management: Holloid is a deep tech startup based on a set of breakthrough inventions. Creating and protecting our unique value proposition and competitive advantage with multiple global patent families, trade secrets and other IP is not trivial and potentially expensive, but rewarding,
Attracting talented, experienced and passionate team members: Luckily, we seem to be on a virtuous circle when it comes to brilliant minds joining our team. Though our team is small, we see some gravitational force towards the science and fast development we do.
How VL FAB helped us
- Direct advice and industry insights
- Intros to industry experts
- Access to the powerful ecosystem around TU Munich and UnternehmerTUM
- Visibility via trade fairs and media publications
- A seal of quality
Advice for founders
Always be an impact entrepreneur. Everything else is not worth your time.