January 22nd | VU Starthub - Amsterdam Startup Launch Final Day | 16:00-18:00 | Vrije Universiteit, OZW-Building

The Amsterdam Startup Launch comes to an apotheosis after several months of hard work by twelve entrepreneurial teams. This journey of growth and discovery will reach its zenith on the Final Day of the program, where up to ten innovative startups will take the stage.

January 23rd | Workshop: Improve your AmSIA application - Amsterdam Science Innovation Award | 09:30 - 11:00 | VU Campus, Maths & Physics Building, Demonstrator Lab, De Boelelaan 1085

Join our workshop to learn valuable tips and tricks for writing a standout AmSIA application. Our experienced business developers will guide you through the application format.

January 23rd | Deep Tech AI Investor Match Making Event | 13:00-17:30 | Startup Village Amsterdam

Welcome to the Deeptech AI Investor Match Making Event happening on 23 jan 2025 at Startup Village! Get ready to connect with top investors in the AI industry. This in-person event is your chance to pitch your innovative AI solution and mingle with potential backers.

January 23rd | Her Capital Connection - FEM-START | 14:00 - 19:00 | KPMG Meijburg & Co, Laan van Langerhuize 9, Amstelveen

This exciting event brings together female angel investors and high-potential startups, creating a vibrant learning, networking, and growth space. Selected startups with female founders will pitch their ideas in the “Dare to Dream” Challenge to win an investment of up to €125,000.

January 23rd | Business Club Cafe | 17:00 - 19:00 | LAB42

Join us for the first Business Club Café of 2025 and kick off the year with good conversations, fresh ideas, and great company from our vibrant community.
Anyone working in the park is welcome.

To register, email danielle@startupvillage.nl

January 29th | AI on the Amstel Meetup | Gen AI and messy outdated tech stacks | 17:00-20:30 | ABN AMRO's Theater Space | Zuidass

The AI on the Amstel meetup is a monthly technical meetup that features knowledgeable speakers discussing "in the weeds" AI topics and challenges. The meetup will feature presentations and a panel of senior AI leaders from different organizations discussing how they deal with messy and/or outdated tech stacks.

January 30th | Inspirational Talk featuring Rosario González-Férez | 12:30 – 13:30 | Online or livestream in Amsterdam / Delft / Eindhoven / Enschede / Leiden

Join us for our next Inspirational Talk featuring Rosario González-Férez, professor of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics at the Universidad de Granada and co-author of Manifesto of Values by Women for Quantum. Rosario will share her challenges, achievements, and advocacy for diversity in quantum.

February 7 | Monthly Community Drinks | Startup Village | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Enjoy drinks with your peers, meet our startups and likeminded entrepeneurs and get inspired

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February 1st Deadline | Trade Mission to Spain on March 26-28 | Focus on charginginfrastructure

Are you an entrepreneur in the field of charginginfrastructure or batteries for electricvehicles, and would you like to explore whether Spain is an interesting export market? Join the mission to Madrid and Valencia. Registration is open until February 1.

February 4th | Facilitating the access of innovative start-ups and SMEs to the public procurement market | Matrix One, SustainaLab Space | Time: 09:00 - 17:30

With the Adra-e project, we are hosting a workshop addressing the main challenges that AI, Data and Robotics small companies face in procurement processes.

February 6th | Vectrix - Webinar flex CFO voor scale-ups | 15:00-16:00 | Online

*this event is in Dutch

In deze sessie zullen Dedmer Taekema en Lex Pluijmers van FYBE Finance ingaan op de finance functie bij scale-ups.

February 12th | Vectrix startup and business angels networking drinks | 16:30 - 18:30 | Startup Village Amsterdam, Night Room

This event will include a panel discussion by moderator Bas Langelaar (founder Vectrix), followed by networking drinks. Partners of the event includes, Vectrix Participaties, Golden Egg Check, Dutch Operator Fund, and Arches Capital.

February 20th | Amsterdam Tech Connect | 18:30-21:00 | Location: Catawiki

Amsterdam Tech Connect is your opportunity to immerse yourself in a thriving tech ecosystem where innovation, collaboration, and meaningful connections are at the heart of the experience. This event is designed to help professionals foster purposeful relationships that spark transformative journeys.

February 20th | Europe’s Mid-tech Trap - Seminar by Daniel Gros | 13:00-14:30 |
Roeterseilandcampus - building A, Room A2.10

Daniel Gros will discuss the need for Europe to strengthen its focus on high-tech industries. Over the last two decades Europe’s industry has stuck to mid-tech sectors, investing in incremental innovation, even more than in the US, while missing out on the emerging high-tech sectors.

February 25th | JLABS | Road to first-in-human trials for small molecules | 13:00 - 18:00 | Leiden & virtual *exact location to be announced

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS invites you for a program that takes an in-depth look into essential aspects of a CTA such as preclinical development, clinical trial design, regulatory strategy, drug metabolism pharmacokinetics, and chemistry, manufacturing & controls.

March 14 | Monthly Community Drinks | Early Stage Startups & Academic Spinoff Night | Startup Village, Venture Studio | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Join us for a night focused on early stage startups & academic spinoffs from University of Amsterdam! Meet entrepreneurs, network and have fun!

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March 3rd - 27th | The Dutch Mission to MIT European Career Fair 2025

Join the Dutch Delegation to the largest Europe-focused career fair in the US. This is your chance to engage with 2,500+ ambitious STEM students from Harvard, MIT and other leading US universities. Schedule 1-on-1 interviews, exhibit at the Dutch Pavilion and join the side events.

March 12-14 | Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2025 | Paris, France

The City of Amsterdam is looking for deeptech startups from the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to join a trade mission to Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, taking place in Paris, France on March 12-14. Deadline to apply: February 10.

March 27th | HIHR-16 | Deadline Submission pitch + Quickfire nominations

New Spin-off initiatives, actively seeking (pre)seed venture funding that want to pitch their initiative to our network of investors, entrepreneurs and corporates. The HIHR pitch event includes the scope of Therapeutics, Diagnostics, MedTech and Digital Health.

April 4 | Monthly Community Drinks | Startup Village | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Enjoy drinks with your peers, meet our startups and likeminded entrepeneurs and get inspired

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April 4th | Meet Your Co-Founder XL | 14:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Roeterseilandcampus, Amsterdam

Whether you’re looking to join a promising startup or seeking a co-founder to complement your skills and help strengthen your existing company, this event is tailored for you!

April 7th | AI020 Conference | Tobacco Theatre Amsterdam | 10:00 - 17:00

AI020 will present an engaging programme featuring keynote speeches by regional key players like Booking, multiple unconference sessions led by our participants, inspiring workshops, and wonderful networking opportunities.

April 8th | Nationaal Congres AI Governance & Compliance | 9:00 - 16:45 | Van der Valk Exclusief, Utrecht *this event is in Dutch

Met inspirerende keynotes, diepgaande paneldiscussies en hands-on breakouts biedt dit congres een unieke kans om te leren, te netwerken en samen te werken aan een veilige en innovatieve toekomst met AI.

April 15th | Webinar HIHR - Resonating with investors | 12:00-13:00 | Online

Jeff Skinner, London Business School, offers new spin off team members and selected pitchers again a hands on training how to best prepare your pitch-presentation in another session of Resonating with investors.

April 17th | Webinar HIHR - IP management for Startups | 12:00-13:00 | Online

Arnold&Siedsma will continue the pitch preparation with a webinar on IP Management for Startups on Thursday April 17. They will cover issues such as the basics and costs of IP, how to communicate with your KTO on this, and how to present your IP position to investors.

April 21 - 25 | HIHR Quickfire sessions | *when you sign up, you will receive the location and time

If you’d like to talk once freely and openly about your ideas for a start up with investors and KTO experts, to ask them any question you want or get feedback on your first plans, then don’t wait and register your project for and intimate and constructive online session.

April 22 - 24 | Inside Quantum Technology | The Hague | The Postillion Convention Centre

The conference brings together corporate management, entrepreneurs, end users, technology providers, infrastructure partners, researchers and investors who are working on current developments.

May 2 | Monthly Community Drinks | USA Night - Expand your startup to the US | Startup Village | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Are you considering expanding your startup to the USA? This is the event for you! Join May 2nd to learn all about the legalities, opportunities and implications of expanding to the US.

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May 13-16 | Quantum Meets Amsterdam 2025 | *exact location to be announced

Highlighting this year's lineup again are the second edition of the Q-Expo, a unique two-day event by the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) featuring a business expo day and a plenary day and the most awaited quantum community gathering Nodes.

May 14 & 15 | Q-Expo | Amsterdam | *exact location yet to be announced

Q-Expo is a two-day event by the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) featuring a business expo day and plenary day! Q-Expo is designed for everyone: from the domain experts to first-time users looking to grasp the potential of new quantum solutions.

May 7th | HIHR Live Pitch Event | Room with a Zoo, Antwerp

The programme of this 16th edition will be published first week of April, which is also the start of the event registration. HIHR-events are ‘invitation-only’. If you would like to join us and are not on our mailing list yet, you’re very welcome to send an email to claar-els@hihr.eu

June 6 | Monthly Community Drinks | Startup Village | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Enjoy drinks with your peers, meet our startups and likeminded entrepeneurs and get inspired

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July 7 | Monthly Community Drinks | Startup Village | Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Enjoy drinks with your peers, meet our startups and likeminded entrepeneurs and get inspired

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Smart Health Amsterdam
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Industry’s top healthcare, AI and data science

AI for Good
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Accelerate UN Sustainable Development Goals

Golden Egg Check
Startup Roulette
Monthly speeddates
Startup - investors

CWI | Calender Future Events
CWI serves as the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science.

ELLIS SOCIETY
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European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems

Several Dates | Pitch Clinic Leapfunder

We will show you how to build an effective 'conclusion chain' for your Pitch Deck in a series of simple slides.

Several Dates | Leapfunder Investor Readiness Session
By joining the Investor Readiness Session you will: Learn how to talk to investors and where to find them; Find out which key moments you should pitch and Practice your 30-second pitch & get expert feedback.

Several Dates | Finance Academy (Online Workshop for Startup Founders)

By joining the Finance Academy you will learn how to: Use convertibles; Structure different equity classes; Set up debt safely (if you must); Read a shareholders' agreement and/or an investment agreement

CAEMPUS

As we step into this new academic year, we're committed to fostering a dynamic environment where creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are at the core.

Time commitment: 10-week program (part-time)

For whom: entrepreneurial (graduate) MSc students, researchers and academics that have an innovative tech or science business idea they aim to bring to market.