Techgrounds MD Abdessamad and participant Katia on opportunities in tech for underrepresented talent
Abdessamad Dari is the MD of Techgrounds Netherlands. With a background in management, sales and system admin, in 2019 he joined Techgrounds. He is Managing Director of the Rotterdam based program tha...
21 Feb 202346min
Parya Lotfi, founder & CEO of DuckDuckGoose, on starting a business in deepfakes
Born in Iran, Parya moved to the Netherlands at the age of twelve. She has a background in systems engineering at Technical University of Delft. There, together with Joris Mollinga and Mark Evenblij s...
12 Feb 202340min
Peter Paul, founder and CEO of Skoon Energy, on turning crises into opportunities and dreaming big enough
With a background in engineering and business, Peter Paul started his career at the acclaimed shipbuilder Damen Shipyards. In 2017, together with Daan Geldermans he founded Skoon on a mission to make ...
30 Jan 202346min
SocialDebt founder & CEO Jamal Oulel on helping young people to get out of problematic debt.
Born and raised in Rotterdam, Jamal has been involved in a number of social initiatives: from RefugeeHero, Edubility foundation. Starters4Communities. In 2020 he founded Social Debt, on a mission to ...
16 Jan 202346min
Nowi founder & CEO Simon van der Jagt on non technical founders solving a technical problem and being acquired
Simon co founded NOWI Energy together with Omar Link, a fellow Strategic Product Design Master student at TU Delft. In 2016, they set out to design a chip that harvests energy - to replace batteries. ...
20 Dec 202250min
Clinton Bemont, CEO of Maxwell & Spark on accelerating the energy transition and moving to The Netherlands from South Africa.
Clinton is the founder and CEO of Maxwell & Spark, manufacturer of renewable energy systems. Originally from South Africa, he has led highly innovative engineering teams, in the fields of materials en...
12 Dec 202247min
Sana Commerce's Michiel Schipperus on how the lessons from the 2008 crisis still apply today.
Michiel is a b2b e-commerce veteran. He joined ISM e-company - which was founded by Jan Kees de Jager and Karel van der Woude - during his Master at Erasmus University more than 20 years ago. Later,...
28 Nov 202246min
Ellen Sano from Yuki on taking over from a founder CEO and what happens after your company gets acquired.
Ellen joined Yuki right after they launched in Belgium, where she grew the business with more than 100% year on year. In 2020, Yuki was acquired by the Nordic Visma Group. And a year later, Ellen too...
31 Okt 202253min
