Mobile payment startup Daalder receives €400k funding from Keadyn Venture-building and investor firm Keadyn has acquired a stake in Daalder, the Amsterdam-based mobile payment service. With the investment, Daalder wants to say goodbye to the interference of banks, c...
New data privacy law and the consequences for startups On january 1st 2016, a new law ‘meldplicht datalekken’ comes into effect. It forces all companies in The Netherlands to disclose any data breaches, or risk hefty fines. The law has serious implication...
These 9 startups pitched during the Startupbootcamp HighTechXL Demo Day The third batch of hightech startups from the Startupbootcamp HighTechXL programme pitched their startup ideas this Thursday in Eindhoven. During the previous event, earlier this year, a Chinese inves...
Erasmus Innovation Study – Hightech in Eindhoven sets the benchmark for Innovation The Inscope research institute at Erasmus University Rotterdam has announced the findings of the annual Erasmus Competition and Innovation Monitor. Dutch companies are becoming more and more innovativ...
Biotech startup Audion Therapeutics raises €8.3M to combat hearing loss Amsterdam-based biotech startup Audion Therapeutics has raised €8.3 million to build the clinical Proof of Concept of its lead sensorineural hearing loss program the company announced yesterday. €2.5 ...
Dutch startup news update: KimKim, Cabture, Monday morning read Here’s what happened in the Dutch startup community last week. Funding Dutchie in Silicon Valley Joost Schreve does it again: his online travel platform Kimkim raised 1 million dollar in seed funding....
Improving Drenthe’s startup climate with the Young Business Award Three young startup enthusiasts founded the Young Business Award competition in order to improve the startup climate in the northern Netherlands and to “break the taboo on pitching”. Pitching ideas Ni...
Postcard from Silicon Valley – Entrepreneurship is not a profession – it’s a way of life. There are hundreds of accelerators on the planet. But a few stand out as doing something unique. StartupDelta’s Jonathan Marks recently got a chance to speak with Ana Mihail. She recently moved from t...
Dutch startup news update – Pie, Nextdoor, funding Here’s what happened in the Dutch startup scene last week. Funding & News Google acqui-hired the startup Pie , the Slack competitor based in Singapore, founded by Dutchies Pieter Walraven and Thijs Ja...
PortXL: a new startup accelerator in the Rotterdam harbour There is a new player in town: PortXL, a startup accelerator in the Rotterdam harbour area. Today the Port of Rotterdam announced the 100-day programme for ten startups in transport/logistics, energy,...
Medtech startup Dovideq gets seed investment from Zeeuws Investment Fund The Zeeuws Investment Fund (Zeeuws Investeringsfonds, or ZIF) invests an undisclosed amount in Deventer based Dovideq Medical, developer of testing devices for endoscopes. Dovideq has created ScopeCon...