These numbers really make us proud. Since 2016 our startups have a 83% success rate. At this point there are 39 companies from the BeStart programme that work on a cleaner, more sustainable world 🍃. So to everybody from our beautiful network, members from the board, people who have coached or taught our startups: THANK […]
Product developer Jelte Steur quit his job at Pezy to focus on a product he really believes in: Eatcup. But what is Eatcup anyway and how did this idea come to life? You can read all about it in this interview with Jelte. What is Eatcup? ‘Eatcup helps people enjoy their own breakfast on the […]
How cool would it be to make new useful stuff out of cow poop? Our participant Dungse makes it happen! They entered our programme in April last year with the aim to refine their business model and to help mainstream their Dungse product as a popular and sustainable building material. In this vlog cofounders Lindey […]
Our lineup four the 2020 – 2021 programme is final! During the online selection event on Thursday March 26th, 9 promising startups were selected for our accelerator. In the coming year, we will help them with entrepeneurial workshops, individual coaching and we will introduce them into our network consisting of customers, financials, knowledge institutes and […]
Thursday March 26th, we will select the cleantech startups that will participate in our 2020 – 2021 accelerator programme! The candidates will pitch for a diverse jury from our BeStart network. Due to the Corona virus, the pitches will take place online, using Microsoft Teams. On Friday march 27th we will publish the final lineup […]
Due to the Corona virus, we have decided to postpone next week’s DEMO day to a later date this year. The DEMO day on March 16 in the Biosintrum is therefore unfortunately canceled. In total almost 100 people registered to be present at this DEMO day. A fantastic number that we at BeStart are extremely proud […]
Thursday Januari 23 Rudy Dijkstra, Martin Tietema and Ronald Wielinga had an interview (dutch spoken) at New Business Radio. In this broadcast they tell their entrepeneurial story from first hand and how BeStart has helped them along the road. Acquaint B.V. and Foamplant are fast growing companies now, also thanks to the excellent business climate […]
Monday January 20th our startups had their worksession at Omrin in Heerenveen. In the moring they had a peek (and sniff 😷) at the recycling station in Heerenveen. CEO John Vernooij (also our chairperson) told them his entrepeneur story with some strong advice: ‘Know what is your focus and what not. Be the best in […]
On Monday March 16th we will have another DemoDay. The final one for the 2019-2020 start-ups and at the same time a selection event for the participants for 2020-2021. Do you want to know what’s new in the cleantech world? Mark the afternoon as ‘busy’ in your agenda! Expect to be blown away by inspiring […]
Last monday November 18th we had our first Check work session at the Biosintrum in Oosterwolde. In this perfect and inspiring building our guest speaker Annemieke Mintjes gave an interactive session about scrum. We will soon share her video with the most important lessons here. Next, our board member Anne Jan Zwart shared his passion […]
Binnen BeStart zijn de krachten gebundeld van vier belangrijke aanjagers van innovatie, startups en business development in de circulaire sector van Noord-Nederland. Verder worden we door een aantal partijen in de publieke en private sector gefinancierd.
