{"id":80195,"date":"2017-01-12T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=80195"},"modified":"2017-01-12T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T05:30:46","slug":"dispatches-europe-wants-to-connect-eindhoven-startups-to-american-vcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/dispatches-europe-wants-to-connect-eindhoven-startups-to-american-vcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches Europe wants to connect Eindhoven startups to American VC’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dispatches Europe<\/a>, a news platform for English speaking expats in Europe that was founded last year, launched an initiative<\/a>\u00a0to connect\u00a0Eindhoven startups to American\u00a0investors. According to Terry Boyd<\/a>, owner of Dispatches Europe and originating\u00a0from the American Midwest, Eindhoven has an unprecedented collection of impressive startups and talents. But there is one problem: “We\u2019ve talked with local entrepreneurs, investors and economic-development officials and they all agree on one point: Angel funding simply doesn\u2019t exist here in any meaningful way.”<\/p>\n

Boyd says there are just a few places with\u00a0a comparable concentration of talent like\u00a0Eindhoven. “The Netherlands is home to some of the smartest companies in the world. Eindhoven has some of the most sophisticated firms in the high-tech hardware and medtech categories.”<\/p>\n

Dispatches already started\u00a0working with Dutch startup officials to bring American VC’s and angels to the Netherlands from the Midwest and South \u2013 starting with Eindhoven \u2013 to fill the funding gap. “Later, we\u2019ll take Dutch startups to Midwest cites such as Columbus, Cincinnati\u00a0and Louisville for demo days.”<\/p>\n

Why the Midwest, why Eindhoven? Cities like Cincinnati, Nashville, Louisville and Columbus are of interest to Boyd because “there is a lot of\u00a0“under-deployed capital”. And Eindhoven “is a Silicon valley-level destination for Europe’s top technical talent”.<\/p>\n

Boyd has been living and working in Eindhoven for nine months now, and is impressed by the city. He already wrote several articles on Eindhoven<\/a>,\u00a0and his current action must\u00a0be viewed in that light as well.\u00a0Boyd currently is visiting the US for two weeks to get investors interested. He hopes to implement his ideas as early as the first quarter of this year. “Our plan has potential risks and rewards for both sides of the Atlantic. But it also has the potential to bolster both regions\u2019 profiles as innovation centers.” If the plan succeeds, Boyd also sees opportunities for cities such as Amsterdam and Groningen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dispatches Europe, a news platform for English speaking expats in Europe that was founded last year, launched an initiative\u00a0to connect\u00a0Eindhoven startups to American\u00a0investors. According to Terry Boyd, owner of Dispatches Europe and originating\u00a0from the American Midwest, Eindhoven has an unprecedented collection of impressive startups and talents. But there is one problem: “We\u2019ve talked with local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":80194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3009],"tags":[9269,482,825,484,827,9271,9273,9275],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-80195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startup","tag-dispatches-europe","tag-economy","tag-high-tech-campus-en","tag-innovation","tag-start-ups","tag-terry-boyd-en","tag-vc","tag-vcs"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20161220_143100-1-300x225.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Start-ups<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Start-ups<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["dispatches Europe<\/a>","economy<\/a>","High Tech Campus<\/a>","innovation<\/a>","start-ups<\/a>","Terry Boyd<\/a>","VC<\/a>","VCs<\/a>"],"unlinked":["dispatches Europe<\/span>","economy<\/span>","High Tech Campus<\/span>","innovation<\/span>","start-ups<\/span>","Terry Boyd<\/span>","VC<\/span>","VCs<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 12, 2017","modified":"Updated on January 12, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 12, 2017 6:30 am","modified":"Updated on January 12, 2017 6:30 am"},"featured_img_caption":"High Tech Campus Eindhoven","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=80195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}