Call for Ideas for a European Innovation Council The European Commission has launched a Call for Ideas for a European Innovation Council to support Europe's most promising innovators. Positive steps have been taken in recent years to integrate an in...
Dutch startup news update: Fastned, funding, Amsterdam-Paris startup exchange Good morning! Sit down for another news update. Here’s what you need to know about the Dutch startup ecosystem. News & updates WeTransfer last week has made its first acquisition by taking over digita...
Interview with HR success story magnet.me Magnet.me is a succesfull Rotterdam based startup in the HR and recruiting market. The company started in 2012 to connect students and graduates to potential employers and has been used by more than 4...
Launchbase pre-incubation programme: Maastricht is looking for youngsters The Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship (MC4E) opened applications for its Launchbase pre-incubation programme, aimed at startup youngsters: students, graduates or anyone interested in entrepreneur...
Trading app Bux receives €6.1M in new venture round – focuses on Germany Trading app Bux scooped up a third investment of 6.1 million euro, led by German VC Holtzbrinck Ventures, in January, the fintech startup announced today. The money will be used to expand the team, to...
Startup Almere, a startup ecosystem in Flevoland Located close to Amsterdam, but with a very different vibe, the city of Almere wants to become a startup hub of its own. Startup Almere is opening its doors, starting with a kickoff event on January 2...
“A new love affair”: banks meet fintech startups at Breaking Barriers Breaking Barriers was the ambitious title of a fintech event that took place on Feb 10th in Amsterdam. The goal of the event was to bring together corporates and startups in the Dutch fintech scene, a...
GetSocial raises €2.3M to expand its monetizing mobile games platform The Hague-based startup GetSocial last week announced a 2.5 million dollar (2.3 million euro) venture investment in its monetizing platform for mobile games. With the money the company has a shot at e...
Dutch startup news update: helping evolution, FinTech and funding Here’s your weekly Dutch startup news update. Funding & Updates Social media curation platform Crowdynews extended its series A funding with 3.7 million euro, bringing the total round to 6.2 million e...
Biotech startup Toxys gets series A funding to develop toxicological tests The Leiden-based biotech startup Toxys received a “substantial amount” of series A funding from Zeeuws Investment Fund (ZIF) and InnovationQuarter. Toxys will be using the investment to further expand...
Sanoma Ventures: no more new investments Sanoma Ventures has come to an end. The fund lasted more than three years, in which Sanoma invested in 18 startups, most of them Dutch and some of them Finnish. Now the board of the corporate has deci...
Report platform 2032 recommends digital skills in Dutch education Report platform 2032 recommends digital skills in Dutch education Digital technology is changing the way we live, work, communicate and learn. Looking at countries like the UK, Finland, Estonia, digit...