Unknown and FCAT Launch the Frontier Founders Fellowship to support Europe’s DeepTech Innovators
The Hague, Netherlands - 11th November, 2025 - Unknown University, Europe’s leading entrepreneurship university, and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), have announced the launch of the Frontier Founders Fellowship, a Europe-wide frontier technology fellowship designed for ambitious founders to test, collaborate, and scale their solutions.
We are witnessing a groundswell of new technologies emerging in Europe. This fellowship is designed to help Europe’s visionary frontier founders bring breakthrough technologies to market, from AI and quantum computing to digital identity and next-gen interfaces. The fellowship will unlock how advances from across industries can transform the future of the financial world.
Richard Murphy, Head of FCAT Europe
"The future doesn’t just appear - it is forged by those who can dream bigger and are bold enough to build what doesn’t yet exist. At FCAT, we’re empowering the visionaries shaping tomorrow’s breakthroughs and are committed to supporting their journey to market."
Unknown University facilitates the fellowship based in The Hague, where it’s building the #1 impact campus of Europe. With the experience of running 200+ entrepreneurship programmes and annually supporting hundreds of startups and scale-ups, Unknown is excited to work with these frontier founders and help them get to market.
“The answers to our biggest challenges are often hidden in the unknown,”
said
Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, Managing Director of Unknown University. “If these technologies never reach the market, they remain ideas instead of impact. This fellowship is designed to help founders bridge that gap. Transforming what’s beyond known into solutions that can fix the future.”
Interested?
Interested founders can showcase their interest via the website:
https://www.unknown-universityas.com/frontier-founders-fellowship. Spots are highly limited and filled on a rolling basis; thus, entrepreneurs are encouraged to act quickly.
For more information, contact: Giedre Birmontaite (giedre@unknowngroup.com)
About the Collaboration
Frontier Founders Fellowship - Europe is an an initiative developed and delivered by Unknown and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. Together, these organizations are aiming to support technology-driven founders to build on their unique strengths, and scale their solutions.
Unknown University is on mission to become the #1 entrepreneurship university in Europe by providing tools, mindset, and network to make a real difference. It runs both accredited degree (BSc & MSc) and short programmes for founders across industries and stages.
The university is embedded in Unknown Campus, part of
The Hague’s impact ecosystem - a home for ambitious founders building technology with purpose. Visit us at Titaan, our 13.000sqm innovation and impact campus in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Since 1999, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology has served as an innovative technology resource for Fidelity Investments. FCAT research and development teams evaluate and track important trends in technology, identifying those that will matter most to Fidelity in the coming years. FCAT is a catalyst for breakthrough achievements, developing and bringing new capabilities and products to scale, and building effective tools and systems that support millions of individual and institutional customers. Every day, FCAT teams lay the foundation for Fidelity’s future, one experiment at a time.
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