Start-up
The start-up Fonckel operated in Eindhoven in the shadow of Philips, the company that in recent years has ensured that LED lamps have become mainstream. But that is more or less coincidental: the company was founded when Delft study friends Philip Ross (Industrial Design) and Kamiel de Leur (Industrial Design Engineering) decided in 2010, together with Hans Filippini (Nyenrode), to build a company around a product that Ross developed for his PhD research at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).