Empowering Dutch Leaders in Tech: Techleap.nl 2021 Action Plan
Read our Action plan 2021 to understand better what Techleap.nl is doing on a daily basis. Our ultimate goal is to accelerate drivers and remove the barriers to entrepreneurial success. But how we do it and with who? Download now the Action plan 2021 to get the answers.
Technology holds the key to so many of the challenges we face today, challenges such as the transition to sustainable energy, climate change, food production, world health, and computing and cybersecurity, to name a few. The Netherlands is home to a wealth of talented people with fantastic solutions, but it takes more than just an idea to change the world – it takes a company, and building a company requires investment, expertise, guidance and determination.
That’s where Techleap.nl comes in. By connecting investors, industry experts, entrepreneurs, and the government, we aim to strengthen the infrastructure of the tech startup ecosystem and empower entrepreneurs in the Netherlands to scale their businesses. We connect entrepreneurs with capital to help them fund their ideas. We provide tools to help tech startups attract and retain the best talent around. We leverage resources and expertise to help startups successfully expand into international markets. We work with the government, universities and academics to help break down the barriers to commercialising research and emerging technologies. We are here to accelerate drivers and remove the barriers to entrepreneurial success.
Our ultimate goal is community empowerment. Establishing permanent connections is the key to creating an ecosystem that sustains itself. We want the Dutch tech sector to become one of the most progressive, relevant, and successful in the world.
Let's scale Dutch tech together.
For 2021, our key deliverables are:
- Supporting the set up of two deep tech scaleups funds whilst helping pension funds invest more in Venture Capital.
- Establishing an international network of experts, connectors and mentors.
- Setting up a diversity and inclusion initiative focused on tech scaleups, similar to the #Fundright programme for investors.
- Attracting more talent to the Netherlands with a careers site showing all the vacancies from leading Dutch scaleups.
- Building a programme with leading incubators to support science based deeptech startups to scale and improve tech transfer practices.
- Running 4 Rise batches for the most promising scaleups and building a strong peer community platform for Rise alumni.
- Getting a new fiscal policy for stock options and risk capital adopted.
- Creating a single community platform to connect the Dutch tech ecosystem in one place.
Techleap.nl is a non-profit publicly funded organisation helping to quantify and accelerate the tech ecosystem of the Netherlands. Empowering people and their tech companies to scale with programmes and initiatives for improving access to capital, markets and talent. From international missions to diversity training, Techleap.nl targets all areas of the ecosystem.
Special Envoy for Techleap.nl is Constantijn van Oranje.
