| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.06.2022 | A fruitful week: Organising a design sprint for Miro | WorldStartup is delighted to announce an interaction with the number one online visual collaboration platform “Miro”, also known as one of our favourite remote/hybrid facilitation tools.
Try out Miro with a free or with a business accoun... |
| 12.04.2022 | Governments' innovation starts with understanding your challenges | Daniël Steginga and Alwin Veldboom have supported the Municipality of The Hague with formulating a Challenge for Startup in Residence with the Worldstartup Challenge Discovery & Definition process. Startups can now register until 12th o... |
| 24.03.2022 | 1 Month Later: The Reality of Living through War in 2022 | WorldStartup aims to bring positive changes into the world every day. We are a global platform and we think it’s our responsibility to support the people in need around the world, especially in these hard times. Today we want to introduce t... |
| 22.03.2022 | Introducing startup Limo as a new member of the Basecamp programme | Limo was founded in 2021 by 4 young international team members. It all started with the passion to improve the quality of landscape and environment surrounding the greenhouses in The Netherlands. Later on, it grew into a concrete product th... |
| 16.03.2022 | Business for Natureâs Call to Action | Nature is at a tipping point. The natural materials and ecosystems that power businesses, underpin economies and support healthy societies are under huge strain.
Businesses have a big role to play in reversing nature loss. But businesses c... |
| 01.03.2022 | Evil minds that plot destruction | Our thoughts are with everyone who suffers from this terrible war that has been raging for almost a week. Our office and our Next Valley program is open for startups from Ukraine and Russia. We offer to help startups with obtaining a Dutch ... |
| 27.02.2022 | Startup Spotlight - Khach and Natalya from Scimagine | Khach and Natalya are co-founders of Scimagine, a startup which has developed an innovative cloud-based platform for categorised experimental data, structured and stored in the form of searchable databases. They joined the WorldStartup Alti... |
| 27.08.2021 | Welcoming new startups | While Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos focus on concurring the space creating one giant leap for pollution, we focus on impact-driven entrepreneurs on the Earth. This month our portfolio has been replenished with four more ventures who intend... |
| 24.05.2021 | The Learning Circle |
In April we organized our first Learning Circle on 'How to find the right impact investor'. The idea of the Learning Circles is for founders to take a deep dive into a certain topic and learn a lot from both experts and fellow founders. ... |
| 18.05.2021 | The Learning Circle Programme |
The idea of the Learning Circles is for founders to take a deep dive into a certain topic and learn a lot from both experts and fellow founders. In our first Learning Circle, we explored the topic of finding the right impact investor, ... |
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In April we organized our first Learning Circle on 'How to find the right impact investor'. The idea of the Learning Circles is for founders to take a deep dive into a certain topic and learn a lot from both experts and fellow founders... |
| - | uHoo | Worldstartup Stories is a series of exclusive interviews with impact driven startups. In this series, as a recap and result of #CoCreateFutureCities, we will introduce you to founders, who work with great passion in shaping our solutions t... |
| - | Finch Floating Homes | This is Finch Floating Homes. As a recap and result of their session âFloating homes how to deal with severe floodsâ on the CoCreate Future Cities platform, weâve held an interview with the founder of the global impact startup. Next t... |
| - | Resilience,Right Now | In the last weeks, the world has been turned upside-down.
As institutions and societal norms are challenged during the viral pandemic and by the chain of events that will arise because of it, we have the chance to change the ways communiti... |
| - | 5G Smart Railway Hackathon - looking back and, always, forward | â
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5G Barcelona is a strategic alliance between the public sector and private businesses, creating an open digital hub for: creating a boost around the 5G industry to encourage fast implementation, favouring the range of innovat... |
| - | WorldStartup is looking back on 2020 and forward to 2021 | This year has been, to say the least, a remarkable year. Next to the impact of COVID19, we united the expertise of Outside Inc., Frank & the Backs, Dutch Coast and the former World Startup Factory with WorldStartup.
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| - | Market Readiness Training October 2020 | As a global entrepreneurship platform WorldStartup accelerates the transition to sustainable and equitable societies by enabling purpose-driven innovators to create successful ventures. With a global collective of startup support organisati... |
| - | Burgs Foods raises funding from Unknown Group | â
16 March, The Hague. Unknown Group is delighted to announce an investment in Burgs Foods. Founded in 2018 by Sander Peltenburg and George Brandenburg, Burgs Foods manufactures sustainable food products made of insects. With their uniqu... |
| - | Xylexa takes on early breast cancer detection | Every year, October is marked by walks, pink sports jerseys, ribbons and what-not as the world observes the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But beyond the heart-wrenching stats and a bare minimum of organisational initiatives, little changes... |
| - | World Startup Factory became WorldStartup | â
We strongly believe in co-creation and itâs a pleasure to work with great like-minded professionals. In the past months weâve worked with Since Today on our renewed identity and brand. Our mission remains the same: new business for... |
| - | IMEC participant's story "Camptoo brings private campervan rental to Germany" | Camptoo is the platform for private individuals who want to rent a campervan or rent out their campervan safely. The popularity of his 'Airbnb on wheels' has ensured that founder Martijn Peeters now focuses on the enormous market potential ... |
| - | Infrascreen: nanotech solution offers greenhouse growers extra energy savingsâ | âA couple of months ago Frank & the Backs welcomed Infrascreen as a client. The Swiss venture has developed a new type of material for climate screens in greenhouses. Simulations have shown that this nanotech material provides an extr... |
| - | How to deal with misinformation on 5G? | The Province of South Holland engaged in a co-creation process with an innovative startup to deal with the problem of misinformation and fake news about 5G. After defining the challenge, WorldStartup scouted for startups that could co-creat... |
| - | Dutch Fund for Climate and Development | Inviting fellow impact makers seeking finance for bankable nature solutions
"We, humans, are just beginning to learn to understand the intelligence of life and her symbiotic relationships, and even more slowly grasping to apply it. In... |
| - | Celebrating 1 year at the WorldStartup Lab | The WorldStartup Lab as a separate business idea have started to develop through various Lab projects in the last 1-2 years until it officially became a reality with the first big programme - 5G Lab in partnership with T-Mobile NL (Septembe... |
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Ministry of Waste founded by Samanta Skrivere from the UK, creates and executes waste management system for polluted and disadvantaged communities in developing countries.
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| - | Hack4Resilience concludes Sprint 1.0 | Last Friday we concluded the Hack4Resilience 1.0, a co-creation sprint meant to build Big Data applications for the COVID-19 Observatory which will deliver actionable intelligence for data-driven governance. The solutions put forth in the O... |
| - | Full year of meaningful innovation at FMO | We just reached a full year of meaningful innovation at FMO. Together we unleashed the innovative powers within the organization, shifting mindsets and ways of working while working on real new business value for the organization and its cl... |
| - | Frank & The Backs supports V-ID | Proud to announce Frank & the Backs first contract, which was signed with Marnix van den Berg and Pim Voets of V-ID.
V-ID secures any digital file against unlawful manipulation, protecting businesses against digital fraud, and letting ... |
| - | New Onboarded Startups | Our purpose-driven community never stops growing. Both Altitude and Next Valley have onboarded new members with innovative and impactful ideas, who are ready to grow under the guidance of WorldStartup!
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VampUp provides qualitative loca... |
| - | Join Global Intrapreneur Week (June 8 - 12) | We are very happy to be part of the Global Intrapreneur Week (June 8 - 12). Especially during these challenging times, we need intrapreneurs more than ever as they can play a critical role in our recovery and ushering in a more just, equita... |
| - | Launch of the Basecamp Programme | WorldStartup is a global entrepreneurship platform.
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Everything we do is about purpose-driven entrepreneurship: improving innovation ecosystems, supporting ventures & building ventures. Why? Because we believe innovative entrepreneu... |
| - | Dutch Mentor Community is going strong | The Dutch Mentor Community unites seasoned entrepreneurs and managers that are eager to share their knowledge, experience and network with startup founders. In addition to that, the mentors also value the opportunity to meet other mentors a... |
| - | Hack4Resilience Indonesia Prize Winner | Last Sunday, Founders Talent Indonesia, Hack4Resilience local partner held an award ceremony. Once intended to be a little event for Indonesia Hack4Resilience 1.0 winner team Atmos FC-19 with all other Indonesia participants Ba-Coat, Indism... |
| - | KJ Lab Challenge - How we did it | The Hague's population is growing and with that the number of bicycles. The number of bicycles left behind on the streets has risen over the past years. Additionally, parking garages are getting filled with old bicycles that lead to lack of... |
| - | ModelMe3D | Data is key for planning the city. ModelMe3D delivers the 3D interface for data driven design and monitoring. Samuel Alvarado will share his lessons so far and talk about how 3D models help policy makers, city designers and architects in ou... |
| - | Startup Spotlight: Interview with James White | Climate Action Center is one of our newest Altitude startups that joined World Startup a few months ago. We are glad to introduce James, a co-founder of Climate Action Center, with whom we have had a very inspiring conversation.Â
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| - | WorldStartup Lab: Behind the scenes of Hackathon for Good | â
WorldStartup Lab first participated in the 3rd edition by introducing a new challenge owner programme and multiple team support streams. Our goal was to involve the challenge owners more throughout the process and bridge a couple of mo... |
| - | Cooperation Mobile World Capital Barcelona | In November, Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital), has signed a cooperation with WorldStartup in the area of 5G and digital tech based co-creation of innovative solutions for social impact.
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| - | Hackathon for Good 2020 & The Hague Legal Tech Alliance | The Hague is known as the international city of peace& justice. During the third edition of Hackathon For Good, The Hague Legal Tech Alliance played a crucial role with a challenge in the field of innovation in the law.
Saskia Bruines,... |
| - | Call for startups & scale-ups in agrifood | Enter your solution in the Top Sector T&U Innovation Prize and win a research budget worth 25,000 euros and participation in a support programme of WorldStartup.
Zoetermeer - Are you an innovative food, tech or agri entrepreneur? A fut... |
| - | Business for Nature’s Call to Action | Nature is at a tipping point. The natural materials and ecosystems that power businesses, underpin economies and support healthy societies are under huge strain.
Businesses have a big role to play in reversing nature loss. But businesses c... |
| - | Transition Tuesday | Transition Tuesday is the place for all those interested in the startup world to exchange ideas, get involved in startup programmes and be inspired. It consists of several meetups, labs and Startup Tuesday The Hague followed by networking a... |
| - | Mobile World Capital Barcelona signs an alliance with WorldStartup to promote health and mobility projects | Barcelona, 16 December 2020-. Mobile World Capital Barcelona, through the 5G Barcelona programme, has sealed a collaboration agreement with the Dutch entrepreneurship platform WorldStartup to strengthen its international growth. The allianc... |
| - | Visiting Rivne as part of the Growing Green Cities Lab | On May 18-19 SYNCHRO SPACE team visited the Green Trail that runs through the entire region of Rivne, Ukraine. Together with the embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Kyiv and WorldStartup, the Growing Green Cities Lab  is kicking o... |
| - | Hackathon for Good Wrap up | This yearâs edition was double in size in terms of challenges, more international than ever and enriched by our expanded selection of experts and tooling sponsors. We are thrilled to see all the fruitful outcomes it has brought to the tea... |
| - | IMEC participant's story "Tiller expands to the United Kingdom" | â
Tiller bv is a unique company from The Hague with an innovative product: a hand truck with a motorized lifting system. In 2018, they participated in the IMEC pilot project to approach their market entry in Germany in a structured way. ... |
| - | We help WWF, and they can help you. | Are you working on a climate mitigation or adaptation project or do you know a nature-based sustainability project in least- or developing countries? Apply now or share this opportunity in your network.
Apply here. For more information go ... |
| - | Onboarded: Cricket Pasta by Terraz foods | Terraz Food is a Czech venture founded by Ivana DvoÅákovár & Martin Fedor from Slovakia who rediscovered pasta as the new way to provide customers with an alternative source of protein and nutrients. The secret: cricket flour!
Crick... |
| - | uHoo Virus Index | uHoo launched the âuHoo Virus Indexâ - the worldâs first real-time assessment of virus survival (such as COVID-19) based on air quality.
The âuHoo Virus Indexâ is a patent-pending technology that analyzes air quality data, monito... |
| - | B Corp Month | The entire month of March is B Corp month. Weâll be joining a global community of almost 4,000 businesses to celebrate what it means to be a Certified B Corporation⢠and share our story to becoming a Better Business.
Every year during ... |
| - | Inspiring BackTalks event | On September 27 the event BackTalks took place for the first time. The hybrid event, organized by Frank & the Backs, was a success: over 30 interested parties attended the live event in The Hague, almost 50 people worldwide were present... |
| - | Wrapping up Growing Green Cities Lab | Growing Green Cities Lab is a six-month programme organized jointly by SYNCHRO SPACE, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine, and WorldStartup. The main goal of the programme is to help the municipality of Rivne to solve its sustainable ... |
| - | Bengal hawkers all set to take business from sidewalks to cyberspace | In a bid to survive amid the Covid-19 pandemic and adapt to the new normal, nearly 16.00.000 hawkers in West Bengal are all set to take their business from the sidewalks to the cyberspace.
Struggling to earn their livelihood on the streets... |
| - | The DFCD Climate Challenge Final | This year, the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) launched the Scalable Climate Solutions Challenge. With the aim of finding scalable climate projects in Bangladesh, Kenya and Uganda.
In total 118 businesses applied and particip... |
