Finance & funding
Do you have a concept or an invention that could do with further development or do you need funding to start a company? Regardless of your domain – Social Sciences and Humanities, Exact sciences or Life sciences – Amsterdam Venture Studios and Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA) offers a variety of funding options and grants for startups or early stage activities.
With these resources you can carry out technical and/or commercial feasibility studies or start an innovation driven enterprise. Point of departure for these resources is (applied) knowledge developed within a university context. Each funding type has it’s own conditions. Contact us about the possibilities.
Amsterdam Venture Studios partners with funds within the Amsterdam academic ecosystem. Please contact them when you are looking for funding for your startup:
Get to know VU Amsterdam Startup Digi.Bio
Gold Award Winner at Academic Startup Competition and participant in the Digital Mission West Coast USA. Digi.Bio works at the intersection of biology, computation and engineering to develop faster and smarter automation tools that accelerate life science discoveries. MT/Sprout made an interesting video portrait of the award-winning startup. According to co-founder Sabrina Zaini, the VU […]
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VU spin-off Lumicks raises $93 million for further development of next generation instruments
With an investment of 78 million euros, the Amsterdam-based medical high-tech company LUMICKS is taking a big step forward in the further development of the next generation of instruments for biological research and drug development. The company started in 2014 in the basement of VU Amsterdam. The company now almost has one hundred and fifty […]
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Optics11 and Optics11 Life secure funding to accelerate growth
Optics11 and Optics11 Life have secured funding from Rabobank. The funding will be used to strongly accelerate growth across global markets, to further build the team for the future and to strategically expand the high-tech product portfolios of both business units. “This is the right moment to pick up the pace. Rabobank’s funding helps us […]
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