ULU, the ecosystem of drivers, vehicles and car related businesses, is going from one success to another without any intention of stopping or slowing down. This February, they were one of the stars of the most impressive demo day (probably ever) in the Netherlands, where… Read more
Plot Projects, the ultimate solution for Geofencing Notifications, recently raised the biggest round via Leapfunder thus far, €320 000. They didn’t stop there, additionally, they also raised another €230 000 from their previous investors. Plot Projects is on the right track to proving “the hockey… Read more
CROWDY HOUSE, the platform and marketplace for the world’s best designers and makers, has had an impressive year. We met them at the very beginning when they raised their first round of funding via Leapfunder, and today we’ve asked Mark Studholme, CEO of CROWDY HOUSE,… Read more
Berlin startup scene is thriving. Berlin tech startups raised a combined $1.1 billion in 2014, a 140% increase compared with 2013. We had a chance to talk to Luisa Maier, Director of Lab & Venture at GTEC Berlin and ask her all about the city’s… Read more
This week we interviewed Pieter ter Kuile, ex-Vice Chairman at Dutch investment bank Kempen & Co and one of the early investors in Leapfunder. Pieter studied law in Amsterdam and obtained an MBA at Harvard. He started his career at McKinsey & Co, after which… Read more
A few months ago we had a chance to speak to Bert-Jan Woertman about the Startup Weekend Eindhoven, High Tech Campus and everything Eindhoven has to offer to startups. This time we will change the focus to investors and everything Eindhoven has in store for you.… Read more
This Friday 28 November, Startup Weekend Eindhoven is taking place. Bert-Jan Woertman, Marketing and Business development director at High Tech Campus, is one of it’s initiators of this event. We asked him about the event, it’s beginnings in Eindhoven and about his expectations for this Startup… Read more
Mark Lenssen is founder of Zorgfunders, an initiative for crowdfunding & networkfunding of healthcare institutions in the Netherlands. Zorgfunders is currently consulting Inspektor QLF, a company developing dental diagnostic devices,to raise convertible notes through the Leapfunder platform. We take the opportunity to interview Mark about… Read more
To take you back to the core of the pitch and introduce you to a valuable exercise “Peer Pitching”, we interviewed André Knol, Co-founder and CEO of Innoleaps where he supervises complex innovation programs and loves to realise breakthroughs in the field of strategy and new business.… Read more
Lars Boelen’s perspective Early 2014 I tumbled into my first crowdfund campaign almost by accident. An anonymous tweet lured me to a crowdfund platform, pointing to an IT-startup looking to fund the development of a beta product into a sellable product. They said they were… Read more
