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… Read more
Choose Preparedness That Comes from Passion
In our new ‘Guide to Investing’ blog series, we’re taking you through seven steps of startup investing. In this sixth blog, find out how to pick a startup to invest in. The prepared startup It’s well known that investors like passionate founders. You can figure… Read more
Dennis Huizing: Leapfunder’s New Country Leader for the Netherlands
Dennis Huizing designs and implements scalable processes that stimulate the growth of startups. He guides them through their first investment and makes sure they are investor-ready for potential follow-ups and have healthy relationships with all investors involved. Recently, he joined the Leapfunder team as the… Read more
Luuz Bielars: The New Berlin Event Manager
Luuz Bielars is the new Event Manager at GTEC, the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center. The collaboration GTEC has with Leapfunder lets her co-organize the Investor Readiness Sessions every Wednesday and the Investor Round Table every second Friday of the month. Find out more about her… Read more
Live Rounds Update [the Netherlands]: October 11th
We talked to Anja Wesbuer, the Managing Director for the Netherlands at rent24, whose goal is to create a community of startups and scaleups, entrepreneurs, corporate innovators and investors that will help each other grow their businesses. What Makes You Click is an interactive workshop led by… Read more
Four Significant Achievements in Four Years
This month Leapfunder turned four! Since the very beginning, we aim to help startups find early-stage financing. We do this by offering support and financial tools, developed with great care. We are already the largest Angel investor network in Europe, and we are determined to… Read more
What we achieved in 2017 and what we’re planning for 2018
2017 was about consolidating our position as the biggest angel investment platform in the Netherlands, consistently with the most deals. In 3,5 – 4 years of history, we’ve only seen about 10% failure rate. That doesn’t mean that all our companies are going to be… Read more