Thursday last week we spent the entire day exploring Fashion Tech Conference in Berlin. It is an event solely focussing on the intersection of Tech and Fashion organised by Premium Group who is also organising the two fairs NEONYT and Premium. The conference showcased a number of new tech innovations in fashion that aim to push... Continue Reading →
Team Saaseads interview with Machiel Jansen Schoonhoven from ALT FIN. ALT FIN is all about providing loans via funds and fintech platforms for corporates and SMEs. When and how did you get into the whole start-up scene “It’s never too late to start a start-up” After 30 years in Investment Banking, Machiel saw the struggles... Continue Reading →
Team SaaSEAD’s interview with Marnix Broer, Co-founder of Studocu – a platform for students to find the study resources shared by their fellow students. By just typing the name of their university, students can access summaries of books, past exams, and tons of lecture notes. The idea of a student note-sharing platform was born, perhaps... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
53 Degrees North interviewed Marlies de Kock and Pieter Vogels, co-founders of mOOvement, a corporate venture of the Dutch bank Rabobank, in a cafĂ© 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 →
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 →
An interview by 53°N with Marieke Wassing and Alain Kummer from NLC – The Healthtech Venture Builder We already knew about VCs, incubators, accelerators, but lately a new species was created by humankind: the venture builder. With increasing volatility in markets, the acceleration of innovation and growing competitiveness in tech, the start-up model is in... Continue Reading →
