Nascent Ventures

• Fund     We provide pre-seed and seed capital Nascent Ventures has a unique investment approach Find  –  Found  –  Fund “The fund concept and approach appeals to me very much It’s exactly what we need for our technologies ” Sjoerd Wittkampf, Technology Transfer Manager at ECN “Hans has a deep understanding of what it takes to transform an idea into a product He certainly knows how to build a company and how to leverage on his extensive network to gain access to anything that may be needed at the right time and in the most efficient way ” Prof Davide Ianuzzi, VU University “Steven Tan is a champion in launching startups He has a keen eye for spotting promising technologies and knows how to deal with universities ” Olivier Heyning, CEO of Lumicks B V

“I see many interesting technologies coming from physics research but translating them into business case is not easy I am confident that this team can pick up our technologies and build successful startups ” Annemieke Galema, Director of Office of Research & Valorisation of University of Groningen “Steven is one of the most experienced Technology Transfer professionals in the Netherlands His contributions to the development of the Dutch TTO landscape are highly appreciated by his colleagues ” Oscar Schoots PhD MBA, CEO of Utrecht Holdings BV and CEO of Stichting Incubator (Part of University of Utrecht) “Hans is a highly experienced technology entrepreneur with a proven track record in start-ups and scale-ups He is business-savvy, has outstanding business ethics and is on top of this a pleasure to work with ” Jos Joore, Biotech entrepreneur (Memtas B V and Pepscope B V ) “Steven is a very experienced startup specialist who knows how to prepare a startup for venture capital investment ” Nityen Lal, Managing Director of Icos Capital “Investing in support of knowledge transfer from universities to industry calls for new financing models which could address both the information and risk patterns of this activity The availability of such instruments is a necessary condition for attracting larger amounts of private capital without which inventions cannot be transformed into innovations ” Jacques Darcy, Head of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property at European Investment Fund “The future of innovation lies in finding new forms of financing ” Eppo Bruins, Former Director of STW, a joint Venture of Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs “Dutch physicists are number one in the world” Wim Saarloos, former Director FOM

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