In the first week in Berlin, team FTS explored the concept of “RE”-fashion, gathering interesting insights from the NEONYT fair, the Fashion Tech Conference and the meetings at Zalando. “RE-fashion” is a word that the team uses to indicate companies that pursue sustainability through an array of circular products/processes. Re-Pack, Re-Use and Re-make are three... Continue Reading →

53°N talked to Philippe Sachs Deputy-CEO of Safari Kid Philippe was living in Singapore working at Standard Chartered Bank when he realised there was no school to provide the educational experience he wanted for his young children. As an American living in the east with a Chinese wife, he felt strongly that the right kind of school could perfectly marry the... Continue Reading →

Team 53°N talked to Markus Kröger CEO of heycar, and Rebecca Schneider Talent Acquisition Manager Markus Kröger has made a career out of growing businesses, with a history of scaling well-known juggernauts like Delivery Hero and PayPal in Germany. Since September last year he took on the challenge of becoming CEO to heycar, a new... Continue Reading →

Putting the lean approach to practice and paying attention to your customers is often preached but not always practiced. SaaSEAD had the opportunity to speak with Irish-native turned Amsterdam-entrepreneur John Staunton, CEO of Countr https://countrhq.com/, a software-based point of sale system that allows retailers, restaurants, and other enterprises turn a tablet into a powerful Point... Continue Reading →

53°N talked to Gijs op de Weegh COO of Payvision Sixteen years ago, Rudolf Booker decided to start a business in payment processing. And so, Payvision was founded, right after the dot.com boom in 2002. Shortly after, Gijs joined Rudolf in his adventure. It was a time when there were no VCs and angel investors... Continue Reading →

53°N interviewed Kathleen Rademan, INSEAD alum and Head of European Network Strategy at Fastned. Kathleen Rademan recently joined Fastned, a company at the forefront of rapid electric car charging in the Netherlands. With a background in finance, Kathleen committed herself to a rigorous search for a role in a start-up company. It was however the... 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 →

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 →