DutchBasecamp

🌟 What a Year for DBC! 🚀 🌟 As 2024 comes to a close, we’re thrilled to share some of the milestones we’ve achieved this year in supporting startups and entrepreneurs to scale globally: ✅ Signed 1 new partnership with ACE strengthening our ecosystem and network offering 🌍 Supported 98 startups with their internationalisation strategies 🤝 Facilitated 125 introductions between alumni, local market experts, and founders 📍 Organized 1 field trip for a group of Dutch founders to the Ruhr region 🧳 Trained 23 trade & investment professionals to better support startups in their network with international expansion 🏋️ Arranged our annual Alumni Event for founders & partners for networking, sharing bad jokes and expansion learnings ✈️ Hosted 2 field trips for 56 Canadian EMBA students in Berlin and Amsterdam, exploring the European startup landscape 🎤 Welcomed 63 experienced entrepreneurs and topic specialists to share their insights with our programme participants 📸 Screenshotted 26 ‘awkward’ funny group photos in Zoom meetings for our socials 🏠 accionvegana to 2 different offices 🏆 Achieved an average score of 8.7/10 for all completed programmes At DBC, we’re proud to be a part of your entrepreneurial journey. Thank you to our partners, speakers and alumni for making this an unforgettable year. Here’s to an even bigger and better 2025! ✨

📅 Save the Date: April 10, 2025 | 16:00 - 20:00 | Amsterdam (venue TBA) Calling all DutchBasecamp Alumni! ⏰ Are you an alumnus/alumna who participated in at least 1 DutchBasecamp programme within the past 11 years? We’re bringing together our incredible community of founders, partners and coaches for an exclusive in-person event designed to help you scale smarter and faster globally 🌍 💡 Why Attend? This free event is a unique blend of: ✨ Peer-to-Peer Learning: (Re)connect with fellow entrepreneurs who, like you, have embarked on their market entry and international expansion journeys. 💼 Expert-Driven Insights: Gain actionable advice from experts in international legal, tax, fundraising, marketing, and more to supercharge your growth strategy. 🤝 Valuable Connections: Build relationships with like-minded founders and partners who can help take your business to the next level. 🍹 Drinks & Snacks: Because learning and networking are better with a drink in hand! By blending peer-to-peer interaction with expert-driven insights and partner connections, this event becomes a powerful accelerator for founders looking to scale smarter and faster globally. 👉 Spots are limited - register now to secure your attendance via the link in the chat!

Globaliser alumnus Orbisk | Zero Food Waste has reached an incredible milestone by securing an €8 million Series A funding round! 🚀 Orbisk, a Dutch scaleup using AI to tackle food waste, will leverage this investment to scale internationally and elevate their technology to drive even greater impact. 🌍 Good luck Olaf, Richard and the entire team as you grow into the US and beyond! 🎉

🌍 A new phase for DutchBasecamp: partnership announcement! At DutchBasecamp, we are passionate about helping startups scale internationally. And we’re taking things to the next level! 🚀 We’re excited to announce our strategic partnership with ACE, a leader in local market setup and operational support, marking a new chapter for DutchBasecamp. This collaboration enables us to make even more impact by guiding startups through every step of their internationalisation journey: ✅ Identifying the right target market ✅ Building localised go-to-market strategies ✅ Setting up local operations ✅ Ensuring smooth and compliant market entry With DutchBasecamp’s expertise in strategy and ACE’s hands-on support in operational setup and compliance, we are combining our strengths to provide startups with everything they need to expand strategically and successfully. This partnership is more than just a collaboration — it’s an opportunity to support even more impactful startups in achieving their global ambitions. Together, we’re making international growth smarter, faster, and more accessible. In other words: international expansion made easy! Want to know more about this partnership and how we can help you succeed internationally? Contact our Director Hugo Niezen.

We have now reached the end of this incredible journey as we wrap up this 6 month internationalisation programme! 🚀 Congratulations to Lal Polater Sena Tarım Yalçınkaya Laurie Lancee Laure PREVAULT OSMANI Kristel Vene, PhD Mariliis Mia Topp Alba Rocafort Marco Dana Aleff Barbara Bachus Liliana Calapez Liina Kalamees for successfully completing this adventure! Yesterday at Day 0 of Slush, we wrapped up the Supernovas Rocketup programme by EIT Urban Mobility EIT Food EIT Manufacturing, during which these passionate Female Founders presented their final GTM strategy pitches and received valuable feedback from judges, Kiran Gange and Paulina Rabell. We are so grateful for the team of excellent mentors and inspiring guest speakers we have collaborated with to make this programme such a success. Not to mention, a really inspiring and engaging group of Founders that we had the pleasure of supporting as they dedicated time and energy into enhancing their GTM strategies in order to strengthen and equip their team better for international growth and success; it's been a blast! Though this is not goodbye of course; you are now all a part of the EIT community and DutchBasecamp alumni network! Good luck all with what’s yet to come; we hope to be sharing some great international news about you soon! A new edition of this programme will kick-off next year for European-based Female Founders in the verticals of #food, #manufacturing, and #mobility. If you know someone that could benefit from this programme, tag them in the comments below! Applications will officially open in early 2025! Thank you to the EIT team for selecting us once again to be part of this incredible programme! We love supporting female founders with their international expansion & growth! 🫶 And, as a final mention - if anyone is at Slush today/tomorrow, feel free to connect with Kirra Pickering or the programme participants (mentioned below) who are here and looking forward to meeting you to chat everything international expansion for startups! 🌎 Vini Mini | Hergele Mobility | Biopols | FABBRIC | ExoMatter | Dreamwaves | UNIO Enterprise | SABI AGRI | Circonomit | Raw Edge EIT Urban Mobility | EIT Manufacturing | EIT Food | Celeste Reglá Díaz | Kirra Pickering

Big congratulations to ExoMatter on raising 1.7 million euros! 💰 ExoMatter has developed an AI-driven platform that empowers companies to discover new materials which helps to optimise for performance, cost and sustainability. Already with many existing clients in Germany and some other parts of Europe, they now aim to use the funding to support their further growth and next steps! They are currently participating in the RocketUp EIT programme (focusing on internationalisation & GTM strategy building) that we have been facilitating for the last 6 months, and with results that can be put to good use soon now! Good luck to Barbara Bachus and Josua Vieten with your further growth plans to take Exomatter to the next level 🚀

Congratulations to Globaliser alumnus Confocal.nl on securing a €5M investment! 🚀 Confocal.nl is a microscope manufacturer whose microscopes use minimal laser light at a very high resolution preventing cells from behaving differently, fading or dying faster, allowing processes in living cells to be studied longer and more accurately. The funding will empower them to grow further globally and enable scientists to achieve breakthroughs faster in developing effective medicine and innovative agricultural crops. Good luck Pim Vos and the team with your next steps on the road to internationalisation! 🌎

Congratulations to FABBRIC on securing a €1.25M investment! 🥳 Fabbric is currently participating in our 6 month internationalistion programme sponsored by EIT Urban Mobility EIT Manufacturing EIT Food, focusing on building a solid GTM Strategy to fuel their next steps for fast growth. Fabbric aims to “empower creators globally with the tools they need to bring their fashion ideas to life, fast and affordably” as they launch their platform to the public, and plan to keep growing fast thanks to the high demand for their solution already, and their recent investment! Good luck Alba Rocafort Marco & Hugo Cuesta and the team with your next steps on the road to internationalisation and the future growth of Fabbric! We can't wait to see what your next chapter of growth looks like 🚀

Congratulations to Globaliser alumnus Blue Radix on securing a €5M investment! 🚀 Blue Radix, a market leader AI-driven technology for greenhouse operations with nearly 100 greenhouse clients globally, will use the investment to speed up the growth of the international team. Good luck Ronald Hoek and the team with your next steps on the road to internationalisation!

You’d be amazed at what we can squeeze into a 5 day field trip to Berlin for 25 (e)MBA students of University of Fredericton... But last week we were put to the test... The conclusion: A jam-packed week of 18 speakers, sightseeing, eating & drinking through the city, and don't forget the many (bad) jokes in between It was our first time in Berlin with Joe Pitzel H.B. Comm (SPAD) B.A. Econ MBA PHD & Elizabeth MacLaughlin for this field trip after completing 4 similar programmes in Amsterdam together within the last few years. It was great to dive deeper into another startup ecosystem and demonstrate what the city of Berlin has to offer 'future entrepreneurs' and students completing their Global Capstones at the University of Fredericton 🇩🇪 Whether it was the interactive workshops on growth hacking and rapid prototyping, or presentations taking place on a range of topics, from pricing to distribution to people & culture, the amount of information thrown into this week was HUGE! And it was only right that we end the week together with some wurst, pretzels and German beer tastings of course 😉🥨🍻 Shoutout to the students for being so engaging, fun and keeping our Programme Facilitator Kirra Pickering on her toes throughout the week And a big thank-you to our energetic and insightful speakers of the week for sharing their knowledge and experience with us Jan-Philipp Heinisch Johannis Hatt Johan Philippe Stam Karina Nemeth Richard Miranda Asmus Eggert Jonathan van Spijker Baan Niels Beuck Joris van Winsen Jana Scharfschwerdt Cristina Iulia Toma Evelyne Keller, PhD Mathias Niehaus Gaston Serpenti Jort Schutte Dee Scarano Rebecca Courtney Bis zum nächsten Mal (Until next time) 👋🇩🇪