StartupDeltaCOSTA ‘corporates & startups’

24 mei 2016 First Meeting COSTA

Fancy van de Vorst Programma manager COSTA, Lukas Roffel CTO Thales Nederland bv

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Corina Kuiper Corporate Venturing Network, Frank van der Post CCO KPN

Jan Kees de Jager Ambassadeur COSTA, Rob van Leen CIO DSM

Justin Jansen Erasmus Universiteit, Edgar van Zoelen Head Health Suite Labs Philips

Pieternel Aarts Director informal investment ING, Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen ECE

Rogier van Beugen Director Innvoation & Venturing KLM, Allard Castelein CEO Port of Rotterdam

Jitse Duysters Erasmus Universiteit, Hans de Jong CEO Philips Benelux

10 mei 2016

Neelie Kroes (Special Envoy, StartupDelta) and Jan Kees de Jager (CFO, KPN) launch COSTA, a programme aimed at improving and strengthening cooperation between corporates and startups by sharing information and best-practices among top ten corporates. A group of 10 front-runners will participate.

Startups are the engine for growth and innovation. One of the core goals of StartupDelta is strengthening the Dutch ecosystem by connecting parties in the startup ecosystem, like corporates and startups, to strengthen collaboration.. In order to achieve this, Neelie Kroes and Jan Kees de Jager have come up with the COSTA programme to enhance cooperation between startups and corporates.

Cooperation between startups and corporates is important because the two reinforce each other’s strengths and potential. COSTA aims to clarify on the one hand; how a corporate can become ‘startup-ready,’ and on the other hand; how startups can become ‘corporate-ready.’ Corporates have access to an international network, of which a startup could benefit to speed up their process of growth and innovation. Collaborating with an innovative startup on the brink of regeneration will make corporates more competitive in a market that is evolving at a fast rate. For startups having a corporate as launching customer will make growth possible and tap into a global network that can help them grow and expand.

COSTA will bring together C-level executive from KPN, Shell, Philips, AkzoNobel, Havenbedrijf Rotterdam, Eneco, ING, KLM, DSM and Thales Nederland several times during the year in order to share knowledge, successes, failures and experiences. The first meeting will be held during Startup Fest Europe. COSTA works together with partners VNO-NCW, Corporate Venturing Network (CVN), the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management and the municipality of Eindhoven.

Note: Also Unilever and Rabobank participate

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