On May 19th, we were pleased to host the sixth version of Healthy Funding. Below are the lessons learned!
“We believe that improving access to finances for female entrepreneurs that are looking to contribute to a better world is one of the key ways of addressing the investment diversity gap.
The Borski fund remains actively involved with its portfolio companies by supporting in areas such as financing, business strategy, network linkage and internationalization.”
“I think one of the things that triggered me was a report that showed that only 7 percent of startups have a mixed founders team, male-female. Borski profiled its fund very well. So I thought: well let’s give them a call and start an introduction. And with success: they have now invested in Prolira!’”
”Arches Capital is a fast-growing group of business angels that is bridging the gap between Venture Capitalist and how angels operate today, by joining the best of both worlds for our members. We are interested in startups with a balanced team, a certain uniqueness and a big potential market size”
“We see that the most successful companies in our sector, don’t only lean on aggregate financing, but they make use of a very complex mix of financing and funding instruments. And it turns out that this is the factor for success.”
“There are four different funding elements that you have to balance and use in their appropriate time. These are: aggregate financing, grants, loans and the tax credits. Also the type of funding that you are using is important. These aspects will change as your company and your technology is maturing.”
“We are developing and manufacturing medical devices. We have quite a multidisciplinary team and we thought it would be a shame to have our team just focus on one product. So we have built multidisciplinary teams around medical innovations and now we develop products together with multinationals or with startups. But we also start our own companies, like Spatium Medical.”
Healthy Funding is all about matchmaking and the focus is on making beautiful, substantive and high quality matches. With Healthy Funding, the Municipality of Rotterdam – Life Sciences & Health 010 – wants to stimulate and further develop good entrepreneurship in the Rotterdam region and beyond.
Of course, LSH010 didn’t do this alone! This 6th edition Healthy.Capital and Smart Health Amsterdam were co-hosting Healthy Funding!
This time we have also organized two masterclasses to help startups to prepare better.
Many thanks to René Reijtenbagh, CEO – Business Angels Connect, Bernd Mintjes, Investor and Vincent van den Bosch, Grants specialist – Business Angels Connect for organizing Masterclass Early Stage Funding.
And to Nino Bellengé, Managing Director – Medscaler, Robin Toornema, Operations Director & Health Innovator – Medscaler, Gijs Langkamp, Health Innovator – Medscaler for organizing the Masterclass International Funding.
Maaike van Zuilen / Life Sciences & Health 010
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