8 May, 2018, Utrecht, The Netherlands – Thuja Capital announced it has sold its shareholding in NightBalance B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands) to Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA).

Philips has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of NightBalance, a digital health scale-up company that has developed an innovative, easy to use device to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea and positional snoring.

March 29, Wageningen, The Netherlands. NutriLeads, a Dutch Health Ingredients company announces that its NUTRI-NEED project has been selected for €2.5 million funding under the European Innovation Council SME Instrument (phase 2). The aim of the 2-year project is to prepare NutriLeads’ health promoting food ingredient NL-01 for commercialization.

22 December 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands – NightBalance, a leader in innovative obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) therapies, today announced that the Dutch National Health Care Institute (ZIN) issued a positive recommendation to include its sleep apnea therapy for reimbursement. The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport will formally approve inclusion of the SPT® following ZIN’s recommendation.

28 November 2017, Maastricht, The Netherlands – Cristal Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted nanomedicines for the treatment of cancer and other diseases with high unmet patient need, today announced that it secured a €2.5 million grant from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.