Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Is your team leading the data, or getting it from the market? After a raise, that question decides everything. You promised investors a go-to-market that works. Now you need to know it actually does. I have spent years inside ventures where the plan looked great and the market said otherwise. So I understand the pressure you are under. Here is the reality most founders live with after a round: Your BD team logs leads and notes in the CRM, but the data you need never reaches the table. You cannot tell if the team is validating the market or confirming what it hopes is true. The next round depends on a strategy that still runs on assumption. Activity is everywhere. Evidence is thin. If that is your quarter, I get it. Here is what nobody tells you. A funded venture rarely underperforms on ambition. The gap is usually missing market evidence. The strategy looks right on paper because it was built from assumption, not from real customers. What closes that gap is a team that can prove itself wrong, working from real market evidence. That is the work I do. I go in with your business development team, hands-on. We build a structured validation process around real customers. Weekly sprints and honest conversations with the people who feel the problem. From there, a sharper ideal customer and a beachhead you can defend. One funded deep-tech venture grew its commercial pipeline 60% in six months, and walked into its raise with proof instead of hope. If this lands, send me a message.
PhotonStudio creates investment ready startups by connecting market needs with Photonic Chip technology to tackle industrial and societal challenges. By identifying promising opportunities, validating use cases, and building investment ready startups, the venture studio lowers barriers for companies and investors to adopt Photonic Chip solutions, driving sustainable innovation and economic growth. PhotonStudio is a joint initiative by PhotonDelta and Gritd. The venture studio combines PhotonDelta’s international Photonic Chip ecosystem with Gritd’s proven venture-building methodology.
Gritd helps startup advisors and investors grow startups into scale-ups faster. We help them select the right startups, deliver the best possible support, and make that support's impact visible. Gritd is a venture development company. We help (funded deep-)tech ventures turn a go-to-market strategy into one backed by market evidence investors trust. As co-founder, I work hands-on with founders and their business development teams. What Gritd's venture development approach has accomplished: - Grew a funded tech venture's commercial pipeline by 60% in six months, by training the team and running weekly customer-validation sprints. - Cut churn from 78% to 32% in six months for a scaling venture, after 250 customer interviews and focused experiments. - Validated a go-to-market to 5% market share, building a repeatable sales process. - Built a 100+ company leadlist for a funded tech venture, with founder and investors aligned on the GTM. The pattern is always the same. Structure and validate customer research, then align founder and investors on a go-to-market the market actually confirms. Topics: go-to-market, customer development, market validation, product-market fit, market adoption, beachhead, deep-tech, venture development.
Commissielid, beoordelen van aanvragen voor financiering binnen de regeling Take-off hbo. Wat is het? Take-off hbo biedt financiering voor een haalbaarheidsonderzoek en, in tweede instantie, een lening voor startende ondernemers. Doel: kennis sneller en beter te vertalen in toepassingen die zorgen voor innovatieve bedrijvigheid. Take-off hbo biedt ruimte aan alle thema’s van onderzoek, met nadruk ook aan sociaal maatschappelijk ondernemerschap. Voor wie? Take-off hbo is voor studenten, docenten, onderzoekers en lectoren van hogescholen. Daarbij is de lector of senior-onderzoeker altijd de aanvrager. Pitchen van je voorstel Aanvragers krijgen de kans hun idee te pitchen voor een commissie die beoordeelt of het voorstel financiering krijgt. De commissie kijkt daarbij naar commercieel potentieel, de onderzoeksbasis en innovativiteit, de kwaliteit van het team en de projectaanpak. Wat kun je aanvragen? Per Take-off haalbaarheidsstudie kan minimaal € 25.000,- en maximaal € 40.000,- worden aangevraagd. Het onderdeel haalbaarheidsstudies wordt via Regieorgaan SIA gefinancierd door het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen (OCW).
De opleiding Digital Business Concepts van de Fontys bereidt je voor op een commerciële toekomst in de digitale wereld. Je leert alles over innovatieve (digitale) marketingstrategieën, hoe je een start-up opzet en hoe je innovatieve digitale concepten ontwikkelt. De opleiding kan in het Nederlands en in het Engels worden gevolgd.
De Brabants-Zeeuwse Werkgeversvereniging is het krachtigste ondernemerscollectief in Brabant en Zeeland en het regionale netwerk van VNO-NCW. VNO NCW Brabant Zeeland is een inspirerende plek voor ontmoeting, kennisoverdracht en samenwerking. Daarnaast is VNO NCW Brabant Zeeland succesvol in belangenbehartiging en een erkend partner van stakeholders zoals provincies, gemeenten en kennisinstellingen. Met 3.000 directeuren van 1.850 bedrijven is VNO NCW Brabant Zeeland een factor van betekenis in de regionale en landelijke economie.