An interview by 53°N with Jeffry Broek and Mark Zaal from De Energiebespaarders (The Energy Savers) – your (digital) partner in making your home sustainable, as easy as online shopping. It is another great day for solar power in Amsterdam when we meet the two founders of De Energiebespaarders, two old study friends from Delft... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North was interviewing Robbin Hoogstraten, Funding Specialist from Symbid, in their office in Rotterdam. The Symbid story told from the perspective of a founder… After the financial crisis in 2008, 3 students of Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam University discovered the up rise of alternative funding sources and social media for funding purposes in an... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Kristoffer Borg Petersen, brand-new CEO of Copenhagen-based Hufsy – a story about a young start-up that tries to disrupt business banking for Small and Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs) With a background in digital media business, Kristoffer is the perfect candidate to scale-up Hufsy, a B2B FinTech company that was founded in... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North discovered more about impact investing during an interview with Anaisa Seneda, INSEAD alumn, Investment Manager and Partner at Meraki Fund in Amsterdam. A VC fund for mission driven start-ups Meraki Fund looks at a start-up from many different angles, not just their profitability. Before investing, they evaluate (i) people, (ii) the business... Continue Reading →
Team SaaSEAD's interview with Peter-Paul founder and CEO of AmberScript and an INSEAD alumni class of '17 July Located at Venture Builders in Amsterdam, AmberScript uses state-of-the-art speech recognition technology to quickly transcribe your audio automatically. Basically, the technology is composed of 2 parts, the first part is the speech to text engine, which automatically transforms your audio to text in 29 languages. The second is an... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Copenhagen-based Plant Jammer’s founder and CEO, Michael Haase. A story about reducing food waste and meat consumption, AND becoming a more playful and creative cook. We met Michael at his office in Copenhagen, a building with a hippie feel to it, like a home that houses multiple start-ups. “A nice... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North interviewed Marlies de Kock and Pieter Vogels, co-founders of mOOvement, a corporate venture of the Dutch bank Rabobank, in a café in Utrecht. Track & Trace of beef cows over long distances? Who thought that tracking the location of cows would become a business one day? Marlies de Kock and Pieter Vogels... Continue Reading →
Melanoma (the most aggressive form of skin cancer) kills over 50,000 people a year worldwide, and that incidence is still rising (about 7% annually), but the most galling fact underlying this statistic is that with proper sun protection and education this risk can be hugely reduced. Walking up to SkinVision’s beautiful glass offices (easily our... Continue Reading →
53 Degree North interviewed Andrew Gardner, CEO of Doctor Link in their new office in Covent Garden, London. Today, we have a massive shortage of doctors, and the strain on healthcare systems is rising exponentially, driven by an ageing population and increasing costs of healthcare provision. Doctor Link is one of the companies tackling this... Continue Reading →
Many founders describe hiring and recruitment as the most important part of their job. SaaSEAD spoke to Laurens van Nues, Founder and Managing Director of Magnet.me, the largest graduate career network and job site in the Netherlands and UK, on how they provide a smarter approach to connecting talented graduate students with jobs they love.... Continue Reading →
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