Startups and co-founders on a speed date in Utrecht A lot of early-stage startups are looking for skilled co-founders in the technical, business, or marketing area. At the same time, skilled people are looking for startups to become part of. In Utrecht...
Never tell Teun it’s impossible! Officerank become Geophy Seven minutes with Teun van den Dries, founder of Geophy (formerly known as Officerank) 20th September 2015: This article has been updated slightly to reflect the change in name of the company. Office...
Swipe & Shop wins The Next Women pitch competition (update) At The Next Women Innovation Summit in Amsterdam, five startups founded by women took part in a pitch competition. According to both jury and audience, Swipe & Shop was the winner. Update 25 June 2015...
United Wardrobe best startup of Sprout’s ‘25 under 25’ Joep Dohmen (21), Thijs Verheul (23) and Sjuul Berden (23) are the best young entrepreneurs of the year, according to Dutch entrepreneur magazine Sprout . The founders of United Wardrobe were announce...
Shutdown of the Telegraaf Media Group incubator TMG Startups Telegraaf Media Group (TMG) pulls the plug from its incubator program . After the latest announcements of corporates like Eneco , KPN , Cofely and many others about their increasing commitment of work...
Funding for breast cancer screening solution MedTech startup SigmaScreening, a 2010 spin-off of the Academic Medical Centre of Amsterdam (AMC), secured investment from the Participation Fund of De Friesland Insurance (DFZ). The fund took an undi...
Neelie Kroes Blog: New York At the beginning of June I visited the impressive startup ecosystems of Boston and New York together with Sigrid and Katja of my team. My goal was to profile the strengths of the Dutch ecosystem, our ...
Neelie Kroes calls for tax relief measures for startups In advance of the talks taking place today on the Dutch major tax reform plan the special envoy for Dutch startups Neelie Kroes calls the country’s parliament to seize this ‘unique opportunity’ to tra...
Startups benefit from employee participation Participation of employees in startups should be favoured by the Dutch tax system Most startups cannot offer their employees a good salary. What they can do is offer shares. Unfortunately, Dutch start...
Four cool Dutch startups by female founders Female founders in tech are not completely uncommon, but men are certainly better represented. Whatever the reasons, not many women choose to start a tech business. Time for us to spotlight five femal...
Weekly startup news update: Deep learning, NYC and The Europas Good morning! Here’s your weekly update about the Dutch startup scene last week. What’s new? Funding Athom, a startup from Enschede that designed the voice controlled assistant (Homey) for smart devic...
6 common legal mistakes made by startups Building a new tech business is taking risks. And by taking risks, you can make big (legal) mistakes. Some of those mistakes are more common than others. Here’s how to avoid them. 1. The wrong legal f...