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...
Dutch co-founder in Silicon Valley: DataFox raises $5 million Dutch entrepreneur Bastiaan Janmaat (the tall guy in the picture) is co-founder of Silicon Valley based DataFox, a search engine and tracking algorithm for companies. The startup just secured 5 millio...
ING opens innovation studio for fintech startups Dutch bank ING is inviting early stage Fintech startups to join their innovation studio program. With this corporate accelerator program startups get access to ING mentors and experts, workshops and t...
Founders arrange their startup partnership with Founders Toolkit If you’ve seen the movie The Social Network, you understand what can happen when starting a business together. Worst case scenario is that a good friend who happens to be your co-founder deliberately ...
Business incubators: which supporting activities create value for startups? Business incubators seem to be everywhere these days. Their advice, network and – in some cases – seed funding are believed to be valuable for (high-tech) startup companies. But how valuable? And whic...
ARCNL: what can be imagined, can be made "We are an academic startup!" exclaims Prof. dr. Joost Frenken, director of the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, only two minutes into the interview. Indeed, it soon becomes clear that AR...
Dasym takes minority interest in ParkFlyRent Investment company Dasym announced that it took a minority interest in car sharing platform ParkFlyRent. The startup combines the need of travellers to park their car at Schiphol Airport with the need...
Weekly startup news update: Synerscope, Crowdynews, Philips Good morning! Here’s everything that happened last week in the Dutch startup scene: Recap & funding Another corporate has seen the light in the Netherlands: bank ING set up a innovation lab for fintec...
Amsterdam enters top 20 of worldwide startup ecosystems Three years ago, Compass (formerly known as Startup Genome) published a global startup ecosystem report. Although heavily focused on North America that time, in this year’s report there’s more attenti...
Entrepreneurs launch ingenious plans with flexible robotics. Mark Menting and Heico Sandee: co-founders of Smart Robotic s In a refurbished research building 12 on High Tech Campus Eindhoven , the first of a new team of startups is unpacking their removal boxes...
European VC firms raise twice as much captital in Q2 European VC firms raised 2 billion euros in the second quarter of 2015. Twice as much as in Q1. Data from Dow Jones VentureSource , a global database on companies backed by venture capital and private...
Online auction house Catawiki raises €75 million to further growth Catawiki, an online auction platform for collectibles items, announced today that it has closed million a €75 million Series C round from a group of international investors to accelerate its growth. T...