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Your growth is our mission.
We empower dutch tech founders in scaling their companies, strengthening the entire tech ecosystem in the process.

Your growth is our mission.
We empower dutch tech founders in scaling their companies, strengthening the entire tech ecosystem in the process.

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The Problem, Our Purpose

The Problem, Our Purpose

The Problem, Our Purpose

The Problem, Our Purpose

Techleap began as a government-backed initiative and has grown into a multi-entity organisation that combines public mandate with a founder-led community. We exist to solve a critical issue: startups in the Netherlands struggle to scale, missing significant opportunities for growth and value creation.

By empowering founders and building a supportive, self-sustaining ecosystem, we accelerate the entire tech sector and help position the Netherlands at the forefront of global innovation.

Techleap began as a government-backed initiative and has grown into a multi-entity organisation that combines public mandate with a founder-led community. We exist to solve a critical issue: startups in the Netherlands struggle to scale, missing significant opportunities for growth and value creation.

By empowering founders and building a supportive, self-sustaining ecosystem, we accelerate the entire tech sector and help position the Netherlands at the forefront of global innovation.

Techleap began as a government-backed initiative and has grown into a multi-entity organisation that combines public mandate with a founder-led community. We exist to solve a critical issue: startups in the Netherlands struggle to scale, missing significant opportunities for growth and value creation.

By empowering founders and building a supportive, self-sustaining ecosystem, we accelerate the entire tech sector and help position the Netherlands at the forefront of global innovation.

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What we do

for Dutch Tech

We work across four areas, each tackling a specific scaling challenge in the Dutch tech ecosystem. Together, they cover the journey from founder-to-founder learning to deeptech research, AI infrastructure, and ecosystem-wide insight.

We work across four areas, each tackling a specific scaling challenge in the Dutch tech ecosystem. Together, they cover the journey from founder-to-founder learning to deeptech research, AI infrastructure, and ecosystem-wide insight.

We work across four areas, each tackling a specific scaling challenge in the Dutch tech ecosystem. Together, they cover the journey from founder-to-founder learning to deeptech research, AI infrastructure, and ecosystem-wide insight.

Techleap Deeptech & Ecosystem

DEEPTECH SCALING & VALORISATION

We support deeptech founders building breakthrough solutions in compute, energy, and other critical sectors. Tailored programmes turn Dutch science into companies that scale globally.

Techleap Community

A FOUNDER-LED COMMUNITY

We support deeptech founders building breakthrough solutions in compute, energy, and other critical sectors. Tailored programmes turn Dutch science into companies that scale globally.

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Research & Convening

DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHT FOR THE ECOSYSTEM

We publish the State of Dutch Tech, deep-dive reports on key sectors, and convene the ecosystem at our annual flagship event. Insight that shapes how founders, investors, and policymakers act.

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AI Hub

AN AI-FIRST ENVIRONMENT FOR FOUNDERS

A founder-led physical hub where frontier AI is developed and ambitious AI companies join forces to scale. Built to fast-track research-to-product and grow the Dutch AI tech stack.

How Techleap

is structured

Techleap operates as a multi-entity ecosystem, keeping publicly-funded and privately-financed activities legally and operationally separate. Whether you're joining the Techleap Community, applying to a Deeptech & Ecosystem programme, working from the upcoming AI Hub, or partnering with us, you're working with Techleap. Behind the scenes, your engagement runs through the entity best suited to that work.

Techleap operates as a multi-entity ecosystem, keeping publicly-funded and privately-financed activities legally and operationally separate. Whether you're joining the Techleap Community, applying to a Deeptech & Ecosystem programme, working from the upcoming AI Hub, or partnering with us, you're working with Techleap. Behind the scenes, your engagement runs through the entity best suited to that work.

Techleap operates as a multi-entity ecosystem, keeping publicly-funded and privately-financed activities legally and operationally separate. Whether you're joining the Techleap Community, applying to a Deeptech & Ecosystem programme, working from the upcoming AI Hub, or partnering with us, you're working with Techleap. Behind the scenes, your engagement runs through the entity best suited to that work.

PUBLIC MANDATE

Public

Funded & Accountable

Funded & Accountable

Publicly-funded work runs through Stichting DutchStartHub, the foundation that receives subsidy from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Today this means Deeptech & Ecosystem: scaling support for deeptech founders, valorisation of research, the State of Dutch Tech event and report, and ecosystem positioning across compute, energy, and other key deeptech verticals.

Funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands

PRIVATE OPERATIONS

Private

Founder-Led & Self-Sustaining

Founder-Led & Self-Sustaining

Privately-financed activities are held by Stichting Techleap, a not-for-profit foundation that anchors the mission across three operating entities, each funded outside of subsidy:

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Techleap Community B.V.

Member-led founder community. Funded by membership fees.

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AI Hub

AI-first physical environment. Funded by corporate and philanthropic capital.

One Techleap,
One Mission

One Techleap, One Mission

One Techleap,
One Mission

One Techleap,
One Mission

All entities operate under Techleap's common mission of helping Dutch tech founders grow and scale. Public and private activities each sit under their own Supervisory Board, with clear separation between funding sources to ensure compliance and give each kind of work the operational home it needs.

All entities operate under Techleap's common mission of helping Dutch tech founders grow and scale. Public and private activities each sit under their own Supervisory Board, with clear separation between funding sources to ensure compliance and give each kind of work the operational home it needs.

All entities operate under Techleap's common mission of helping Dutch tech founders grow and scale. Public and private activities each sit under their own Supervisory Board, with clear separation between funding sources to ensure compliance and give each kind of work the operational home it needs.

Supervisory

board

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Thomas Plantenga

Vinted CEO

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Thomas Plantenga

Vinted CEO

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Mayke Nagtegaal

Non-executive boardmember and TrueTribe CEO

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Mayke Nagtegaal

Non-executive boardmember and TrueTribe CEO

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Marijn Pijnenborg

Investor and Tech Entrepreneur

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Marijn Pijnenborg

Investor and Tech Entrepreneur

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Vinod Subramaniam

Leading biophysicist and President of the University of Twente

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the Team