These 9 startups pitched during the Smart Materials Demo Day During the very first Smart Materials Demo Day of Startupbootcamp in Sittard, nine startups in the materials industry presented themselves to investors. Some of the ingredients of this afternoon: seve...
A-Lab – Great things are starting-up in Amsterdam Noord If you glance North over the River Ij at the back of Amsterdam Central Railway Station, you’ll see a hive of activity. It’s centred on the old Shell buildings and tower, once home to the oil company’s...
High-Tech Scale-ups: Finding software bugs that often slip through. Martijn Rutten is CEO and co-founder of the disruptive software company Vector Fabrics , based in Zaltbommel in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Their Wikipedia page explains they have built a set of...
Dutch startup Ensie wants to be an alternative for Wikipedia Ensie is an encyclopedia based on authorship, a feature that its biggest competitor lacks. Where Wikipedia is a place that condenses all the internet’s knowledge into one article per subject, Ensie of...
Prizewinners SHAKE Young Talent Innovation Festival create smart emergency button for events Prizewinners SHAKE Young Talent Innovation Festival create smart emergency button for events Students designed ‘Event 112’ as the solution to increase safety when using alcohol and drugs goes bad SHAK...
Surprise shutdown of Cityshare Travel information platform Cityshare has been declared bankrupt by the Amsterdam court on June 30 2015. The company was known as a crowdfunding success on Symbid. Although a few warnings about a conf...
Teaching the Elephant to Dance with the Mouse – so everyone wins. Recently StartupDelta spoke with the founders of The Venture Generator, a Rotterdam-based consultancy operating within large enterprises in the Rotterdam –Delft – Schiphol region. The three founders, ...
The Next Web launches Index.co, a tool for tracking tech news Getting up to date with all the tech news can be time consuming for techies, journalists and investors. Enter Index.co, a ‘Bloomberg for private tech companies’. Index.co launched today under the wing...
Planning app Calendar42 gets 1 million euro seed funding ‘Dynamic planning’ app Calendar42 just announced an investment of over 1 million euro from several informal investors as well as one of the current shareholders. “This is a seed investment that should...
Seats2meet.com: sharing is the new capital Seats2meet.com is the co-working space that offers people the opportunity to pay with social capital. I meet with Ronald van den Hoff, co-founder and a man with a vision. What evolves is a conversatio...
Hilversum gears up for Media Park Accelerator The media-hotspot of the Netherlands, The Media Park in Hilversum, it to get its own accelerator program. The Media Park Accelerator is designed especially for journalism and media related startups.As...
IBM – Taking initiative and driving change IBM has built several initiatives in the Netherlands designed to support startups, developers, academic researchers and enterprises. The most recent is the opening of the Innovation Space at B.Amsterd...