Ghent gives digital start-ups a big boost.
In 2015, Samuel Van de Velde was one of the two co-founders of Pozyx, a spin-off of the University of Ghent.
"Now, 17 permanent people are working for us," he says. "Our office is in the former office of Mayor Termont in the old Bond Moyson building."
He takes part in The Big Score (an international venture capital & corporate innovation sourcing B2B event) to grow in Europe and perhaps worldwide. Another option is to find an interested investor who is willing to buy into the company.
Pozyx makes hardware and software for exact positioning on an industrial estate: a kind of indoor GPS.
"Forklifts, personnel, objects lying around: everything can be located on a digital map to be brought together."
Pozyx also works for agriculture.
"We make cow tags, sensors attached to the animal that allows the farmer to detect the behavior and movements when a cow is pregnant or in heat."
Link: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20191021_04676440
Written by
Samuel Van de Velde
CTO & Co-Founder at Pozyx
Samuel is an electrical engineer with a strong interest in location technology. Skilled in Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Product Management, internet of things (IoT), and Machine Learning. After graduating In 2010, he joined the Department of Telecommunications and Digital Information Processing (TELIN) to pursue a Ph.D. degree on the topic of collaborative indoor localisation. In 2015, he founded the spin-off company Pozyx out of that research.
