Rise Programme

"You need to do your homework first, but if you know what you need, the Rise programme is the best thing that could ever happen to your business."

"The diversity of participants and experiences was what held the most value in the programme for me. Everyone runs into different things in their own space, but you can dilute them down to the same pure issues."

"I really liked the idea of being able to learn through the experiences of others. 90% of the challenges you go through as an entrepreneur are being experienced by your peers as well."

"We have applied for the Rise programme because we believe it’s one of the strongest and most sought-after Tech Accelerator Programmes out there. Being selected acts as a massive validation to both ourselves and our external stakeholders that we are being seen as one of the Netherlands' highest potential scaleups!"

Our Entrepreneur-in-Residence will lead a CEO to CEO conversation with you and use a data-driven tool to map the bottlenecks on your scaling journey. 

Network, get inspired, and gather actionable insights via 5 scale sessions with our scale icons such as Pieter van der Does (Adyen), Michiel Muller (Picnic), or Steven Schuurman (Elastic).

Together we will curate an audience of top-tier contacts from the investor and corporate world to listen to your pitch and enable the right connections in days instead of months.

The programme is actually never-ending. By joining Rise, you will be onboarded in the Rise community to stay in touch with other Dutch entrepreneurs. Networking (online) events, exclusive workshops, media partnerships, 1:1 meetings with scale experts is what you will get among other great initiatives created by the Rise team.

Meet the very first batch of companies accepted into the programme after an intensive selection process: Easee, Floryn, LTO Network, Mapiq, Nico.Lab, Online Payment Platform, Polarsteps, Quicargo, Starred and Wizenoze. 

Tech companies are our biggest hope for solving some of the world's biggest problems, that’s why we picked for this batch the theme "Flattening the climate curve". Meet the 11 high potential tech scaleups helping flatten the climate curve: Sympower, Felyx, Overstory, Sensorfact, Lightyear, Hardt Hyperloop, Solarge, Dyecoo, Hello Energy, Physee and Excess Materials Exchange.