Let's say you are in the thick of your entrepreneurial journey.  You've brought your innovative idea out of the lab into cutting edge product. You've had a successful pilot program and a have a few profitable sales cycles behind you.  Safe to say you are on the right track. And now your wonder how you scale your emerging technology. How you will broaden your reach with minimum investment and maximum impact. Rick Scholten is the founder and CEO of Sorama , a spin-off of the technical  University of Eindhoven. He talks about his experience as an entrepreneur and the challenges h ..read more

How do you, as a (med)tech startup entrepreneur, connect with corporates? What can working together with a larger corporation bring you? And what do these organisations look for in a startup?  Co-hosts John van de Laar and Lea Milovich talk to guest Sander van Nuland of Pfizer to answer these questions.  This episode was made possible with the support of Muriel Jolivert, Frank Huizing and Vera Boertien of imec.istart.nl. Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more

How do you go from academics to entrepreneurship? And what do you have to consider when making that switch? Co-hosts John van de Laar and Bart Nelissen speak to guest Davide Iannuzzi of VU Amsterdam to answer these questions.  This episode was made possible with the support of Muriel Jolivert, Frank Huizing and Vera Boertien of imec.istart.nl. Editing was done by Rodrigo Zapata, VU Campusradio. Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more

Season 2 of Breaking Through is on its way! Tune in on Monday March 20th to hear all about making the switch from academics to entrepreneurship.  Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more

This third episode of Breaking Through takes us back to Helsinki! Recorded during Slush 2022, we talk about the position of Dutch startup ecosystems in the international arena. With Jeroen van Woerden, managing director of The Gate in Eindhoven and Yvonne Greeuw, Investment Manager at Delft Enterprises (TU Delft). Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more

In our second episode of the imec.istart.nl podcast we are live on Slush!  We are talking with two frontrunners of Dutch universities making impact with entrepreneurship: Jaap Beernink of the University of Twente and Sebastiaan Berendse of the University of Wageningen.  Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more

imec.istart.nl is one year old! A good reason to sit down with Novel-T’s CEO Jaap Beernink and imec.istart’s program director Sven De Cleyn. They share some of the experiences of the first year of the imec.istart.nl accelerator. In short: much has been achieved, but much more is still to come, thanks to the new 12 million istart.nl Seed Fund.  Want to know more about imec.istart.nl? Visit our website: imec.istart.nl ..read more