Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus’s well-known maxim proved a more than fitting opening for In-Soo Radstake’s newest documentary film, ‘’Selling a Colonial War”, which was selected as the closing film of the African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York City. The documentary investigates the Netherlands' war fought from 1945 to 1949 against the newly declared Republic of Indonesia. Words matter, in war and in peace. Radstake’s film carefully examines how the original framing device of a “police action” was able to dominate public perception for decades. The screening, followed by a lively discussion and Q&A, offered essential perspectives on history, colonial narratives, race and power—very timely topics indeed. Dutch Culture USA is proud to be part of this year’s festival through the FUTURE 400 program, an initiative that honors 400 years of Dutch-New York history by creating space for dialogue and collaboration around culture and shared heritage. Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the USA

The ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast 2024 finished with a bang. 💥 During their 5 days in New York City and Boston, the founders connected with investors, entrepreneurs, and experts to accelerate their US journey to scale. 🚀 The cohort’s last days in the US were spent in Boston, to learn from the innovative ecosystem led by world-renowned universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. 🎓 ✅The cohort started with a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of internationalization, with expert advice from Shrutih Tewarie Chemburkar, Christopher Escobedo Hart, Patrick Connolly, Erik Huestis, Allison Anderson and Christopher Cawley. This team at Foley Hoag LLP helped the cohort understand the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. During the Private Venture Capital Panel hosted by Shell Ventures, they connected with VCs and founders, followed by a powerful pitch session at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. The Startup Garage offered them the chance to further improve their pitch, with valuable feedback from Ben Soltoff, Ben Maitland-Lewis, Sophia Kambanis and Val Livada. ✍️ 📣During the Netherlands Innovation Night at CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) Venture Café, the startups pitched their companies to the larger network of Netherlands Innovation Network in Boston, building a new network and meeting experts in their field. 🦄 On the last day in the US, the participants met with founders Ellen van Rooijen, PhD, Thomer Gil and Vincent Drietelaar, followed by a mentor carousel with Joan Popolo, Sophia Kambanis,Sophie de Boer and Suman Lal. By rotating through multiple expert mentors to discuss everything from talent acquisition to business development, the scaleups got get instrumental insights in market expansion.👩💻 Next steps: continue their US expansion, together with all those met over the program. 🇺🇸 🙏Thank you to all the ScaleNL participants and our program partners for making this accelerator possible. Netherlands Innovation Network in Boston

Funding innovation, pitching, and scaling in NYC. The ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast Edition this week has been packed with invaluable insights and hands-on experiences to refine their scaling strategy. ✔️At Newlab in Brooklyn, the cohort of founders dove into the critical tech ecosystem of NYC, meeting US and NL entrepreneurs with years of experience. The expert session with Langdon Morris on accelerating commercialization provided them with strategies for navigating the fast-paced innovation landscape. ✔️US investors provided the scale-ups with pitch feedback. Advice from Dana (Sadovnic) Hamaui, Mandy Sebel, Zach Stein and others helped them refine their growth strategy and prepare for the right stage of investment, which will help the participants succeed in the highly competitive US market. ✔️The session was followed by a meeting on cap table negotiation and fundraising strategies at Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. Speakers included Jon Ain, Derek Stueben, Neil Dubnoff, Lanna Lan, Alexander Shiekman, Michelle Bai, Susan Levinson, and others. At Microsoft Garage, Mike Pell shared insights on the tech behind scaling startups. ✔️The scale-ups then used their new pitching skills to pitch their business to a VC audience and at Google. Expertssuch as Charlotte van der Smeede, Casper Verhoofstad, Svevo de Weert, and Matthijs Wielings shared their perspectives on scaling tech, go to market, and marketing. Their insights on product development, scaling teams, and growth strategies were incredibly valuable. ✔️As a last stop in NYC, Ernest Lee, CCO at citizenM hotels, provided his lessons on scaling up operations from NL in the USA, including the cultural differences across the Atlantic. Next stop: Boston! 🚂

Funding innovation, pitching, and scaling in NYC. The ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast Edition this week has been packed with invaluable insights and hands-on experiences to refine their scaling strategy. ✔️At Newlab in Brooklyn, the cohort of founders dove into the critical tech ecosystem of NYC, meeting US and NL entrepreneurs with years of experience. The expert session with Langdon Morris on accelerating commercialization provided them with strategies for navigating the fast-paced innovation landscape. ✔️US investors provided the scale-ups with pitch feedback. Advice from Dana (Sadovnic) Hamaui, Mandy Sebel, Zach Stein and others helped them refine their growth strategy and prepare for the right stage of investment, which will help the participants succeed in the highly competitive US market. ✔️The session was followed by a meeting on cap table negotiation and fundraising strategies at Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. Speakers included Jon Ain, Derek Stueben, Neil Dubnoff, Lanna Lan, Alexander Shiekman, Michelle Bai, Susan Levinson, and others. At Microsoft Garage, Mike Pell shared insights on the tech behind scaling startups. ✔️The scale-ups then used their new pitching skills to pitch their business to a VC audience and at Google. Expertssuch as Charlotte van der Smeede, Casper Verhoofstad, Svevo de Weert, and Matthijs Wielings shared their perspectives on scaling tech, go to market, and marketing. Their insights on product development, scaling teams, and growth strategies were incredibly valuable. ✔️As a last stop in NYC, Ernest Lee, CCO at citizenM hotels, provided his lessons on scaling up operations from NL in the USA, including the cultural differences across the Atlantic. Next stop: Boston! 🚂

Nasdaq, AMA & Legal: this was Day🥇of the ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast Edition 2024⬇️ The innovators started with an exclusive visit to the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, where they got an in-depth tour and heard from industry leaders about how Nasdaq and Nasdaq Private Market work with companies on listing, investment relations, and visibility. During the Expert Round Robin hosted by CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), the discussions on operations, tax strategies, talent acquisition, and legal considerations gave them concrete tools for navigating the complexities of scaling in the US market. In the private residence of Dutch entrepreneur Adriaan Kolff of Matchr, they engaged in a Mega-Ask-Me-Anything with Dennis Tan of Dashmote and Adriaan. With views of the famous High Line, the cohort learned about their experiences with landing and expanding in the US market. It was a packed first day filled with invaluable insights and networking opportunities. Huge thanks to our incredible mentors for making this possible. The ScaleNL accelerator brings 11 top tier scale-ups from the Netherlands to New York City and Boston this week, to connect with the ecosystem and prepare them for their next steps of doing business in the US.

ScaleNL is ready for take-off! 🚀 The ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast Edition has arrived in New York City for a deep-dive into the most thrilling tech hubs in the world, providing them with workshops, pitch sessions and networking, preparing them for their next steps in the US. 🙏 Good luck this week to these incredible companies and founders: • Thermeleon Heat Battery helps refuse reliance on fossil fuels by high tech greenhouses and improve sustainability and temperature stability. - Jildou de Jong • Clementine is a Hearing Screening & Education Platform, eliminating barriers to hearing health.  - Vince van de Weijer • ubiqu delivers the cryptographic components and delivers high levels of assurance for eIDAS wallets. - Boris Goranov • Simbase builds a better global connectivity platform and helps customers connect their smart devices around the world.- Roel van der Meer • SABENDER Inc. offers a Cognitive Behavior Therapy-based and AI infused knowledge platform for professionals to take control of their own mental well-being. - Sabine van Egeraat • C Teleport is an AI-powered B2B travel platform that allows its customers to automate post-booking changes at scale. - Dmitrii Beliakov, EMBA • Workwize solves the IT Hardware Management for your global workforce. Deploy, manage and retrieve IT hardware for your distributed teams. - Michiel Meyer • GetFocus is a technology forecasting solution for R&D leaders to forecast the technological future years before they disrupt. - Jard van Ingen • Neolook Solutions Neolook Solutions provides advanced video augmented services for NICUs and PICUs. - Marco D'Agata • Axelera AI aims to accelerate computer vision in edge devices by offering a powerful, energy-efficient, cost-effective, user-friendly AI platform. - Fabrizio Del Maffeo •Praxa Sense revolutionizes remote monitoring by delivering unmatched accuracy and reliable data through proprietary laser speckle-sensor. - Leonard Moonen What to know more? Send us a DM 📱

🚀 Are you ready for the ScaleNL Accelerator East Coast Edition next week? 11 top-notch scale-ups from the Netherlands will visit New York and Boston for unparalleled ecosystem support for scaling to the US market 🗽 🦄 The innovators will deep-dive into the most thrilling tech hubs in the world, providing them with workshops, pitch sessions and networking, preparing them for their next steps in the US. 📅 For the Bostonians: join us for the Netherlands Innovation Night on December 5 at Venture Café Cambridge: https://lnkd.in/eqtQPzTt 🔥Meet the incredible companies and founders: • Thermeleon - Jildou de Jong • Clementine - Vince van de Weijer • ubiqu - Boris Goranov • Simbase - Roel van der Meer • SABENDER Inc. - Sabine van Egeraat • C Teleport - Dmitrii Beliakov, EMBA • Workwize - Michiel Meyer • GetFocus - Jard van Ingen • Neolook Solutions - Marco D'Agata • Axelera AI - Fabrizio Del Maffeo •Praxa Sense - Leonard Moonen 🙏Thank you to ScaleNL program partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Rabobank, SVB, Delta Air Lines, and citizenM hotels for making this accelerator possible, alongside our corporate partners Erasmus Enterprise, YES!Delft, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, and Microsoft. Netherlands Innovation Network in Boston

An evening of music and friendship 🎼 Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC. As part of our FUTURE400 program, we hosted our Dutch and US network, together with Carnegie Hall and the Orchestra, marking the strong ties between the Netherlands and New York City 🇳🇱🇺🇸 Consul General Ahmed Dadou: “Thank you to Carnegie Hall for your partnership, and for your continued commitment to bringing world-class music to a broad public. For 50 years, culture has been an integral part of the Dutch foreign policy, and Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest is essential in this regard. As we honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history, this concert moves us to our future, with beauty and joy.” The program featured Chief Conductor Designate Klaus Mäkelä, violinist Lisa Batiashvili, and a US premiere by the orchestra’s composer in residence Ellen Reid. As a women composer in the classical music world, she represents the new voices and perspectives that FUTURE400 highlights. After a second NYC performance tonight, the Orchestra will travel to Washington DC for a concert at the Kennedy Center. Thank you Carnegie Hall and Concertgebouw Orchestra for a wonderful evening and partnership 🙏

NOW ON VIEW 🎨✨ “Piet Mondrian: Ever further” is now open at Guggenheim New York! Explore a focused exhibition that chronicles the evolution of the artist’s signature abstract style. “When [Mondrian] tries to explain what his art is about, he says, ‘I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out.’ We’re just so very lucky that we know his findings because they are preserved in his pictures.” —Mariet Westermann, curator and Director and CEO, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. Plan your visit: https://gu.gg/3APlXgN ___ Photo: David Heald Support for “Piet Mondrian: Ever further” is provided by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, as part of the Dutch Culture USA FUTURE 400 program (Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York).

Dutch documentary Front Row had its world premiere at DOC NYC documentary film festival this week.   If you get a chance: do not miss this powerful story of resilience, the importance of culture in time of great adversity, ballet as a source of pride, strength and joy.   Award-winning Dutch film maker Miriam Guttmann joined forces with producer Sarah Jessica Parker to tell the story of the United Ukrainian Ballet: sixty exiled Ukrainian dancers based in the Netherlands take the world’s stages by storm.   But there’s a new crew member: a soldier learning to dance with two prosthetic legs.   The documentary conveyed an important message, articulated by veteran Oleksandr Teren Budko during the Q&A: culture is often called soft power, but it’s not less muscular, it is just fighting on a different front.   Head of Culture USA Pauline Genee joined the screening, followed by a Q&A with film subject director Miriam Guttmann, executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker, and protagonists Oleksandr Teren Budko and Alexis Tutunnique, amongst others.   DOC NY takes place until December 1, also online: https://lnkd.in/gWstDEij