StartupAmsterdam

Welcome to

StartupAmsterdamStartup Capital of Europes West Coast

StartupAmsterdam

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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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1 | StartupAmsterdam Projects

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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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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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