Cofounder matchmaking initiative Teamventure launches startup team award Finding a business partner can be as hard as finding the love of your life. TeamVenture, a government spin-out company that helps people with business matchmaking, wants to highlight the importance of...
IBM Watson connects startups and tech companies at “How To Get There Summit” The “ How To Get There Summit ”, organized by the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE) , aims to fuel innovation by connecting startups with enterprises and by sharing experience and best practis...
ESA BIC Noordwijk: A Surprisingly Down to Earth Spacetech Incubator When thinking of startups you usually don’t think of stars, satellites and spacesuits. However, spacetech can be used by promising entrepreneurs to explore new applications for life on Earth. That’s w...
Homebrewing startup Minibrew gets €250k from VOC Capital The beer brewing hype hasn’t gone unnoticed in the Dutch cities. Amsterdam startup Minibrew, which lets you homebrew the perfect beer with a machine and an app, picked up a 250.000 euro (or: 100.000 b...
Europe’s first Growth Hacking Academy kicks off in Amsterdam Growth hacking is becoming the most sought after skill in small businesses like startups. But startups are struggling to find talent in this area. That’s why Growth Tribe today started with its growth...
Nestpick picks up $11M in series A funding Rocket Internet-backed Dutch-German startup Nestpick has received $11M (€9,9M) to digitize the entire rental process of homes. The series A funding comes from VC’s Rocket, Mangrove and Enern. Started ...
Dutch Construction Industry Needs Start-Ups to Innovate The Dutch construction industry needs a wrecking ball to innovate,” says Serena Scholte (34) advisor of StartupDelta and founder of Startupbouw . “Start-ups can have this impact and bring innovation t...
“Innovation is in our DNA” Joelle Frijters and Janneke Niessen, the two founders of Improve Digital, live and breathe entrepreneurship, that much becomes clear during the interview. So much in sync are the co-founders of this s...
Four Dutch founders in Kairos 50 list of top global entrepreneurs Dutch startups are doing well on the world stage: four of them are included in the prestigious Kairos 50 list. These startups are Adjuvo Motion, AVA, Dutch UAS and Printr. Each year, Kairos Society se...
IBM & KPN invite developers to build innovative IoT applications and present on stage at 4YFN IBM and KPN have joined forces to bring the Global Mobile Innovators Tournament to the Netherlands. Finalists are invited to demonstrate their application on stage at the 4YFN startup festival during ...
How becoming a father made me a better entrepreneur Dan Fennessy is founder of Amsterdam based startup Party with a Local. In this guest post he describes the impact of becoming a father on his role as a startup entrepreneur. When I found out I was goi...
How to inspire girls to embrace technology? Less than 20% of the students who follow technology related studies in the Netherlands are female. “Most companies will become technology companies, so if you do not understand technology you can not ...