When you can eat your passion: food meets biotech
Can you imagine tech that goes beyond Facebook, Google, your iPhone and even Tesla? Ever considered biology? After reading this article your new drone seems to be low tech and your noise cancelling headphones, not so cool anymore. We’re talking about foods …
Cognitive illusions and falling in love; moving beyond your gut feeling in tech scouting
I’m in love, head over heels, I don’t need to look any further, I want it! This machine learning, profit generating growth machine has caught my eye last week, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I want to invest, I want …
(Technology) Scouting at Easter
Easter in Amsterdam has passed again (unfortunately). An opportunity to unleash that artist hidden deep within you! That is, if you painted eggs at Easter time with your family. It seems so simple but, competitive as we are, secretly is always quite …
Everyone’s still using Excel
Eco summit Paris 2018, investors, corporates and start-ups, all in a single room, all looking for that spark of magic that could ignite a great future for all. Yet to find that super cool company you have to see, talk and assess …
Scouting the globe for technology’s Messi
by Glenn Bijvoets (Ideation & Venturing at Eneco Smart Energy) and Nienke Benders (Technology Consultant at Venture IQ) Five-time world player of the year Lionel Messi is a graduate of Barcelona’s soccer academy. But he was born and raised on a different …