Hans de Penning & Neople: Personalized Customer Support at Scale
Hans de Penning is the Founder and CEO of Neople, providing the world’s most helpful and intelligent digital co-workers for customer support teams. With the help of a Neople, your customer support team can handle incoming tickets with the speed of light. Neoples help answer all incoming questions, and they’re trained in your tone of…
Alexandra Belicova & StartupAmsterdam: Supporting Startups, Scaleups, and the Ecosystem
We chatted with Alexandra Belicova, the Comms, Partnerships & Events Lead at StartupAmsterdam, a program run by the City of Amsterdam that brings the public and private sectors together to support startups, scaleups, entrepreneurs, and other players in the ecosystem. Find out how she first got hooked on the startup world, how StartupAmsterdam contributes to…
German Startup Changemakers: Ferdinand Mühlhäuser
Ferdinand Mühlhäuser has been focusing on coaching and guiding founders for over six years, and has funded or accelerated a portfolio of more than 60 startups. Learn about his mission as the Managing Director at the Founder Institute Berlin, and find out what is it about lean innovative startups that particularly attracts him. 1. Hi…
Marc Wesselink & venturerock: Re-Inventing Venture Capital
Marc Wesselink is a serial entrepreneur, who started 12 companies and failed 4 times. He’s the Founding Partner of Startupbootcamp and responsible for the alumni portfolio. Based on the learnings from his journey, he’s building a new way to fund global startups and scaleups. Learn about venturerock, his digital venture capital platform, and find out…
Leapfunder’s Investor Matching Program
Anyone who has been in the mountains knows that sometimes you need to climb a peak to be able to see that there are even higher peaks further away. For a lot of startups, the first major challenge to their survival is finding investors. However, immediately after this, they face another challenge that is just…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Nataly Schammel & Laurens Hamerlinck (Future of Finance Accelerator)
Nataly Schammel is working for Techstars, which invests in early-stage companies and has 50 Accelerator Programs across the world with 2600+ portfolio companies. Laurens Hamerlinck is the Innovation Partnerships Lead at ABN AMRO Bank connecting startup ecosystem innovation with the internal organisation in order to drive change and growth. Together, they’re running the Future of Finance Accelerator by Techstars &…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Stefan Braam
We had a chat with Stefan Braam, the Startup incubation lead at UtrechtInc, an incubator for early-stage tech startups. UtrechtInc is the #10 university startup incubator worldwide, with a mission to connect scientists and entrepreneurs to the right people, skills and strategies to turn ideas into leading technology companies. Find out what Stefan loves about…
Shahar Graf & the Amsterdam Capital House Event
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. As a part of the event’s program, Leapfunder will be hosting…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Julien Taylor
Julien Taylor is a Director at Antler, an early-stage VC and startup generator. He is responsible for the end-to-end design and execution of the startup generator program, the access to deal flow, and the successful development of founder cohorts based out of Amsterdam. His goal is to see founders launch a variety of new innovative…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Jan Geert van Hall
We interviewed Jan Geert van Hall, the Investment Director at YES!Delft, one of the largest High-Tech incubators in the world. He entered the startup world more than 10 years ago, and he’s been shaping the Dutch startup ecosystem ever since. Find out what’s his mission at YES!Delft, what are the lessons for founders he learned…