StartupAmsterdam
Welcome to
StartupAmsterdamStartup Capital of Europes West Coast
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“StartupAmsterdam is founded
by serial entrepreneurs and
governmental bodies,
and represents the startup
ecosystem of Amsterdam”
StartupAmsterdam
Goal & Strategy
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We aim to be in the top-3 startup hubs of Europe
Goal
Strengthen our assets, push growth for the whole
ecosystem
How
15 concrete action points and cooperation with partners
Approach
We think and work like a startup: Start lean, validate, scale
Work method
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What we do? A lot!
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Make an abundance of startup and tech talent available
Talent
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Online startup
Job advertising
Startup & coding
academies
Coding
at schools
Ensure that startups have easy access to potential launching
customers, corporate partners and first users
Clients
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Corporate partner
program
Launching
authorities
Amsterdam
Launchpad
week
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Create Europe’s richest startup event calendar
Content
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Talks
@StartupAmsterdam
International
Startup events
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portal
Ensure that sufficient growth capital is available for
promising startups
Capital
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Capital Week
Amsterdam
Connecting
Capital
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Ensure that sufficient growth capital is available for
promising startups
Environment
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City branding Hub-to-hubs Valorization
of facilities
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Concentration
of startup activities
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Erik van der Kooij
Projectleader 'Scenarios –
the Game'
Kim van der Leeuw
Founder Wander
Startupin Residence
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Facts
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19Challenges
7 Startups fulfilled 6 challenges
Startups applied for 1st edition
5 other cities have adopted Startup in Residence
programmes to solve their cities challenges
Other cities
6 challenges in 2015, 13 in 2016
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Erik Visser
Business Development
Oracle Technology
Manos Tsagkias
CEO 904 Labs
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Facts
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3Editions
67 Launchpad meetups
Corporates
800 startups applied
Startups connected
4th edition taking place in December 2016
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Charlotte Sundåker
CEO Hyper Island
Jorik Elferink
Experience Design by
Hyper Island
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Facts
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10Tracks
In September 130 new talents will start a 9 month
programme
BSSA TALENTS
80% of all the BSSA talents were able to find a job at a
Startup
Employments
5 new tracks starting September 2016
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Marc van Agteren
CEO Usabilla
Tom GouloozeGrowth Marketing Analyst Usabilla
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Facts
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1st Growth hack academy in Europe
Will train 4000 new students during the programme
Students
500
Participated in the first programme
Startups13
Participated
Nationalities13
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Annelies van Helsen
Teacher at Barbaraschool
Willemijn de Beer
Pupil at Barbaraschool
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Facts
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630Hours of coding
In Amsterdam
Primary schools
630 hours of introduction lessons on Schools in Amsterdam
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First High school graduation programme1st
In the Netherlands
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Johan van Mil
Co-founder Peak Capital
Marnix Broer
Co-founder StuDocu
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Facts
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25Events
Participated and opened their doors
Investors
Joined and pitched
Startups
Second edition will take place in september
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Avinash Changa
Founder We Make VR
Esosa Ighodaro
Founder Cosign
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Facts
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30Startups
Next bootcamp will take place in September
Bootcamps
Paris and New York
Startup exchange agreements
From Amsterdam, New York and Paris
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Action programme
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Facts
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Innovation capital of Europe
2nd place in EDCI as startup city
3rd place in EDCI as scale up city
3rd place Innovation Cities index
5th place in city report
€256.791.000,- funding for startups in 2015
More than 200 startups invited at corporate
headquarters
150+ partners involved with programme
SCALE network with 11 European cities
Signed memorandums with New York & Paris
Programme initiatives: Amsterdam Capital
Week; SCALE; Nerderlands; Launchpad
Meetups; Startup in Residence; Coding for
Amsterdam; bootcamps; &more
8 startup academies
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“You start to understand why the likes of Optimizely, Uber,
Netflix, Tesla, and Shutterstock have all decided to base their
European Headquarters in the Dutch capital.”
StartupAmsterdam
@Startup_Adam
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