Meet the Investor Readiness Program Batch 2020

Written by Jenny Konings on November 17, 2020. Posted in News, Online, YES!Funded.

Meet the startups of our Investor Readiness Program

Six startups are currently enrolled in our Investor Readiness Program. In 10-weeks they get all the tools to be attractive from an investor’s perspective and to obtain the necessary funds to further accelerate! After previous successes, and numerous requests, YES!Funded also started to welcome startups outside our ecosystem to the program! Scroll down, get to know them a bit better, and find out how they experienced the program so far.

PATS Indoor Drone Solutions

PATS Indoor Drone Solutions is automating insect control for horticulture with their Bat-like Drones.

“Investor readiness is much more than a fancy slide deck. You have to make the switch from selling your company to building the case for investors such that they see the long-term potential and have no other want than to be part of this journey together with the startup team.

The program gives great insights into all aspects that are relevant to building this case, with great and detailed support and guidance by the YES!Funded team.”

Cuurios

Asset-intensive industries struggle to inspect, maintain, and repair their assets in a coordinated and timely way. Their business-as-usual collaboration solutions (e.g. E-mail, Microsoft Excel, Power BI) are reactive, highly dependent on human input, or lack data context. This leads to avoidable production losses, asset downtime, or quality issues.

The software product of Cuurios is a collaborative environment to organize, track, and manage asset related actions, turbo charged by data.

“The first three weeks of the YES!Delft Investor Readiness Program were inspiring and intense and it gave us valuable insights on the investors perspective, our elevator pitch, and much more… Cuurios is now 2 years successful in business and we believe this program will help us prepare and present an appealing investment opportunity!”

Interested to know more about this startup’s experience in the program? Read all about it in the extensive blogpost they wrote.

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Lynk

Lynk is embedding quality control intuitively into your projects’ digital workflow.

“Even amidst Corona, Carola, Jan Geert, and Bianca have managed to make the Investor Readiness Program feel personal and inclusive. The masterclasses have been on-point and have nudged us to look beyond technology and product metrics. We are looking forward to making our business case full-circle and getting in touch with investors.”

Mavin

The purpose of the media has always been to hold governments and organizations accountable. But who holds the media accountable? Mavin believes it should be you. Especially now! Mavin will be an ecosystem of crowd-sourced, reputation-based, rating, and commenting tools to enable internet users to instantly recognize the trustworthiness of content they read, share, or engage in. This will help to restore online trust, fight misinformation, bad bots, and trolls while offering publishers additional engagement, traffic, and revenue.

“We applied to join the Investor Readiness Program to improve how we target, present to, and connect with investors. The first weeks have been focused on getting the basics in order to target investors, while the second part of the program is more focused on the in-depth knowledge required when connecting to investors.

We received great feedback on our pitch deck, not only from the YES!Delft team, but also from the Entrepreneurs in Residence which are part of YES!Delft. Especially those connections, to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors are most useful and relevant to us and we are looking forward to a lot more inspiring conversations.”

BodyGraph

BodyGraph designed The Textile Coach, a smart undershirt that provides accurate body monitoring and gives actionable advice.

“During the first three weeks, we already got so many new insights from the YES!Delft team and the other participants. We now know what investor-ready truly means. We are looking forward to putting the things we learned into practice and pitch for the ‘friendly’ investors, later on in the program.”

Olivia

Olivia brings inexpensive wireless data fuels to the next wave of innovation. An explosion in affordable hardware makes gathering data possible in ways it wasn’t before. Communicating data wirelessly remains costly and painful. Olivia changes that, by becoming the world’s first mobile network operator for smart devices.

Are you an investor looking for investment opportunities in these startups or would you just like to get to know them even better? Join the Investor Day!

Startups present their solutions at the Pitch Day of EIT Health Validation Lab

Written by Jenny Konings on November 8, 2020. Posted in MedTech, News.

The EIT Health Pitch Day marked the end of this year’s EIT Health Validation Lab, and sent 17 early-stage MedTech startups into the market. The event was held entirely online on October 27 and gave teams a chance to pitch their innovation to our network. Lifelet Medical took the coveted first prize.

“The Validation Lab was a great experience for Lifelet Medical, where we received excellent domain-specific mentorship and coaching. It was an honor to work with all of the startups, and we are delighted for the opportunity to advance to the central pitch competition and to accelerate our technology further”, says Elle Sander, co-founder of Lifelet Medical.

A partnership between EIT Health & YES!Delft

EIT Health Validation Lab is a partnership between YES!Delft and EIT Health. The two organizations join forces to offer early-stage companies an opportunity to validate their technology as best as possible, and combine YES!Delft’s startup expertise with the extensive knowledge and network of EIT Health.

Over the course of eight weeks, the two parties provided the right tooling and coaching to startups to develop their skills to validate their riskiest business assumptions, to sharpen their problem-solution-fit, and find their product-market-fit. The Validation Lab is designed to help promising MedTech teams get in touch with mentors and industry specialists already early on.

Solving a severe and relevant problem

Lifelet Medical, the winner of this edition, is on an ambitious yet very important mission. The team aims to improve the lives of patients with heart valve disease by developing fully synthetic durable and sustainable heart valve leaflets for life.

“Lifelet is solving a severe problem that is very relevant worldwide, they have a unique innovation and an excellent team,” said Evert Jaap Lugt, Managing Director of YES!Delft, when he announced the startup as the winner.

“We would like to thank all the startups and ecosystem partners for their ongoing enthusiasm throughout the program. I’m very curious to see what the future holds for these game-changers, I have very high expectations after everything we’ve seen so far”, says MedTech Program Manager, Claire Visser.

[CLOSED] VACANCY: Junior Startup Scout

Written by Jenny Konings on September 9, 2020. Posted in News.

Are you ready to build tomorrow’s leading firms?

YES!Delft is hiring a Junior Startup Scout! (1,0 FTE)

YES!Delft – Building Tomorrow’s Leading Firms

YES!Delft is the start-up incubator that supports entrepreneurs in building and growing technology companies in the Netherlands. Over the last 15 years YES!Delft has become one of the leading incubators in the world! YES!Delft offers guidance and support to graduates, scientists, engineers, professionals, and corporates in their start-up journey. Our programs turn promising technology ideas into solid start-ups and help them grow to successful companies. Entrepreneurs get access to mentors, experts, investors, and corporate partners who share their know-how and experience. Basically we train entrepreneurs and connect them to the world!

You, your purpose & the ideal outcome
As a startup scout, your purpose is to get the best tech entrepreneurs in the country at YES!Delft. You constantly look for new and efficient tactics and strategies to find and keep in touch with promising founders, technologies, teams, and startups. We expect a data-driven work approach. You explore and test online & offline channels to see which scouting tactics help you achieve your goal. You will also be working on screening & selection of the teams for our corporate programs and challenges. Most important: You are the main point of contact for tech startups, you represent YES!Delft and explain our programs, and our purpose to entrepreneurs. The ideal outcome would be thousands of high-quality applications consisting of enthusiastic & committed teams for our incubator and our programs.

Competences:
– You have top communication skills, talking with people you don’t know is second nature to you
– You are solution-oriented and a real team player
– You are passionate about technology and want to learn everything about the next tech innovations
– You like structure, you find Excel easy to work with, and are fascinated about data
– You’re eager to learn a lot about startups

Job requirements:
– You have a completed WO or HBO, recently graduated
– Fluent in English (Dutch is a bonus)
– Looking for a Junior position in which you can learn and develop yourself

We offer you
A world-class incubator: An inspiring start-up environment where you have the opportunity to develop yourself and where you are able to implement your ideas and improve programs wherever you see fit. You will work with a driven and ambitious team that goes above and beyond to support start-ups, funding and builds a thriving ecosystem, day-in-day-out. YES!Delft offers a truly unique opportunity to contribute, learn, and grow in the world of tech-entrepreneurship.

More information and application procedure
We look forward to your application, send your resume and tell us about a situation in which you overcame an obstacle and how you handled it. Please keep it within 2 paragraphs (no more than 300 words). Lastly, send your application, including the resume and your story, to andreea@yesdelft.nl to the attention of Andreea Bota before the 22nd of September 2020.

Author: Jenny Konings

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Meet the startups of our Investor Readiness Program

PATS Indoor Drone Solutions

Cuurios

Lynk

Mavin

BodyGraph

Olivia

A partnership between EIT Health & YES!Delft

Solving a severe and relevant problem

There are only 2 months left until we round up this year, and what a year was 2020 so far! One could think there would be fewer nominations, collaborations, and grants secured, but check out all the achievements from our startups in this month’s success stories!

7. Academic Startup Competition

10. Get in the Ring – Impact Competition

6. ADI & Pats Indoor Drone Solutions

9. Effect.AI

10. Hardt Hyperloop & PHYSEE Technologies

Are you ready to build tomorrow’s leading firms?

YES!Delft is hiring a Junior Startup Scout! (1,0 FTE)

Get in touch