We had a chat with Shahar Graf, the Co-Founder of Capital House, which organizes the annual Amsterdam Capital House event, with a mission to create an ecosystem that actively supports the growth of founders. This year, the event will be taking place from March 24th-26th.… Read more
We had a chat with Femmie Geradts, the Director of Startup Village Amsterdam. Startup Village is Amsterdam’s innovation hub where science-based startups are facilitated in locations, co-working spaces, and event studios. It houses a strong community of 35 startups. Femmie’s focus is to strengthen the… Read more
Driven by a passion for education, innovation and entrepreneurship, Anna C. Mallon has almost 20 years of experience transforming global startup innovation, education and marketing businesses across Europe and Southeast Asia. She is a Senior Startup & Ecosystem Business Developer at Amazon Web Services, where… Read more
We talked to Liduina Hammer, Head of Capital at Innovation Quarter, the regional economic development agency for the province of Zuid-Holland. Their mission is to make investments today that will change the world of tomorrow. Find out how Liduina entered the startup world, what lessons for founders… Read more
Do you want to learn investment best practices and get access to the startup scene? Do you want an opportunity to invest with fellow angels and grow the economy? Join Leapfunder’s second Angel Clinic on February 7th in Amsterdam, and kick start your angel investing career. The… Read more
Ruben Nieuwenhuis is an entrepreneur who already set up five startups. As the former director of StartupAmsterdam and co-initiator of StartupDelta, his purpose is to strengthen the ecosystem in the Netherlands. With his tech talent program TechConnect, he strives to bring diversity in the tech… Read more
Benjamin founded Civocracy from what he saw as a clear fundamental problem, the non-leveraging of technology for transparency and civic participation. He spent 12 months researching, developing prototypes and the business model prior to co-founding the company in May 2015. Find out more about his… Read more
2016 has been an amazing year for us, for the startups we’ve helped raise funding, the investors we introduced them to… but more importantly for the Dutch startup ecosystem as a whole. Looking back on the past months, here are some of this year’s highlights.… Read more
Amsterdam was ranked second best European city for startups by the European Digital City Index in 2015, and as the Netherlands aims to become the best country in Europe to start a digital business, things are only going to get better in the Amsterdam startup… Read more
It’s not a secret that the Dutch startup scene is thriving and that some of Europe’s best startup hubs are in Amsterdam & Eindhoven. Forbes recently published its 30 under 30 Europe list, and while it includes many amazing young leaders, inventors & entrepreneurs, only… Read more
