2025: A Year of Connection, Innovation, and Impact

Here's how we worked alongside Amsterdam's most ambitious builders, dreamers, and changemakers in 2025:

January

• We announced that we are teaming up with FEM-START once again in 2025 to empower women entrepreneurs. FEM-START provides female entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills, and connections to grow their businesses and secure funding.

February

• We powered the Amsterdam Talent Mission as part of the Dutch delegation to the European Career Fair at MIT (27 Feb – 3 Mar), which connects European employers with STEM talent from MIT, Harvard University, and top-tier universities.

March

• We joined forces with Amsterdam Trade & Invest to bring 10 of Amsterdam's most inspiring deep tech startups to the Hello Tomorrow summit in Paris, a leading event for deep tech startups, investors, industry experts, and researchers.

April

• We were a key partner of AI020, where startups, corporates, investors, and enthusiasts converge to exchange insights, challenge assumptions, and co-create the next wave of innovation.
• As a proud partner at PlantFWD, Europe's most forward-thinking conference on the future of food, we hosted the Amsterdam Pavilion showcasing 6 innovative and impactful homegrown food startups.
• We helped unite over 100 Dutch changemakers in what ChangeNOW, the world's largest event for impact solutions, described as their biggest country delegation ever.

June

• We teamed up with Innofest to strengthen sustainable and social innovation in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area by helping 5 startups showcase and live test their innovation at Op de Ring festival.
• We worked with AMS Institute, Innofest, Amsterdam InChange, and Marineterrein on first-ever edition of Amsterdam Innovation Day, which brought together a dynamic mix of 300+ innovators, thinkers, and doers for a full day of collaboration and creativity.
• At the TNW Conference — Europe's leading tech festival — we once again hosted the Amsterdam Pavilion, showcasing 12 pioneering startups driving change across quantum security, clean tech, women's health, sustainable fashion, and more.

September

• We supported the We Make Trouble Weekend Hackathon, which unites 10 visionary female founders and 40 cross-functional experts to prototype startups in tech-for-good, AI, health, and more.

October

• We selected 8 impact-first, Amsterdam-based startups keen to expand into the German market to join us and The Hague in a delegation to Bits & Pretzels in Munich, Europe's premier founders' festival.
• We were a key partner of World Summit AI, the world's largest dedicated summit in AI and emerging technology, where we also hosted a two-day pavilion showcasing the best our city has to offer in AI innovation.

November

• We supported Life Sciences Health Capital Match, a dynamic matchmaking event connecting 30 investors with innovative startups and scaleups in life sciences and health.
• We selected 15 innovative, impact-driven startups to represent Amsterdam at leading startup event Slush, which we joined as part of a 200+ strong Dutch delegation of founders, investors, and ecosystem builders in Helsinki.
• We powered the Amsterdam Circular Changemaker Award, won by VNYX, as part of the inaugural Fashion Pioneer Awards initiated by Mumster.

December

• We supported the Amsterdam Co-Founder Match Event organised by Startup Village Amsterdam, AMS Institute, Venture Centre HvA, Demonstrator Lab Amsterdam, and VU StartHub.
• We teamed up with Mollie and Golden Egg Check for an Investor Matchmaking event that also included StartupRoulette 1:1 investor-founder meetings.