A technology for the easy deployment of 5G and LTE networks born in the i2cat research and development center is what is behind the start-up Neutroon. This emerging company began its journey when the technology developed by i2cat was selected to enter The Collider technology transfer program, promoted by Mobile World Capital Barcelona. It was also at The Collider that Neutroon's two co-founders met: Christopher Gehlen and Alberto Villalobos, who at the time was founding the venture factory 5G Ventures.
The Collider showed that the technology had potential and there were already two entrepreneurs willing to bring it to market. The only thing missing was the investment to go ahead with the project. This is where 5G Ventures came into play, which was "Neutroon's first investment partner," Gehlen explains. In October 2021, the founders managed to raise a financing round of 530,000 euros, contributed by 5G Ventures, the companies Ferrovial and Shared Access and investors such as Oriol Relats and Jordi Vallejo.
Based in Barcelona and with a team of 14 people, the raison d'être of this emerging company is to "democratize access to 5G and LTE networks", in the words of Gehlen. Specifically, Neutroon "allows these technologies to be deployed in just minutes, thanks to automation and a very intuitive graphical interface, thereby significantly reducing costs and complexity," explains the co-founder. Among the start-up's clients, companies such as Enel, Ferrovial or Fujitsu stand out. "We work in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy and in 2013 we want to enter the United States," advances the entrepreneur, who plans to end 2022 with a turnover of one million euros. To continue growing, Neutroon is negotiating a financing round of two million euros that it expects to close in the coming months.
