Partners

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  An expert in HR consultancy, entrepreneurship coaching and executive search, Elevate Consulting complements Rockstart Accelerator by offering our 10 teams coaching, personal assessments, hiring skill tips and much more. We are extremely proud to announce a €60.000 value partnership with Elevate Consulting.

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  “A global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups”? That sounds perfect for us, we’ll take two please! All jokes aside, Microsoft BizSpark is an excellent partner for Rockstart Accelerator, helping high potential startups get help from Microsoft through mentoring, facilities, investment and other support mechanisms.

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  WebFWD supports Open Source projects that extend the Web by providing participants with mentorship from industry experts, access to the Mozilla global network, infrastructure and other world-class resources. WebFWD is offering the Rockstart Accelerator teams regular one-on-one mentoring with Mozzilians and their vast network of mentors, partners, scouts & tech superstars.

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  Entrepreneurship demands innovation and true innovation needs legal support. Our partners at Kennedy Van der Laan are kind enough to lend us legal advice and their vast experience in innovative business sectors.

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  NoRo Venture capital was founded in 2011 by Rob van Eck and Norbert van Druten. These two formed traders, and best friends met each other 20 years ago at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, and have done business for 20 years. Combined, they have more than 25 years of (international) financial experience. They have played a vital role in getting the accelerator off the ground, and really support our mission: to create a better environment for startups in the Netherlands.

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  Initially an event at iPhone Challenge Europe (iCE), Appsterdam is now its own entity promoting the idea that Amsterdam can become the next Silicon Valley for app development.

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  Solid as a rock, that’s our partner TTY. With the powerful combination of working for clients and creating own concepts makes this Full Service Internet Partner unique from competition. Trends in the market, new opportunities and visitor’s experiences are what TTY seeks in her own projects.

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  Specialized in financial, tax and legal matters, that’s our latest partner RSM Niehe Lancée Kooij. They have years of experience with the guidance and advice to small and medium sized companies who operate national and/or internationally. Proactively involved with their clients, they are continually working on an innovative, professional, reliable and personal ways to improve the results for their clients.

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  The Municipality of Amsterdam is one of the key partners in the Rockstart Accelerator Amsterdam 2012 program. One of the reasons why they support our initiative is that they want to have more fast-growing, innovative companies move to and start in Amsterdam.

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  Blueseed is a project to station a ship 12 nautical miles from the coast of San Francisco, in international waters. The location will allow startup entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start or grow their company near Silicon Valley, without the need for a US work visa. The ship will be converted into a coworking and co-living space, and will have high-speed Internet access and daily transportation to the mainland via ferry boat.

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  Blackbox is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator focused on helping non-US startups that strive to bring their products to the global market.

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  Evolv Weekend is a three day action-learning workshop which enables entrepreneurs and others to evolve their idea into product-market fit through the Lean Startup methodology.

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  Kroes Advocaten Immigration Lawyers is a boutique law firm specialized in Netherlands and European immigration law.

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  Startupbusiness is a web platform aimed to stimulate and support relationships, matching, deals, share of information among the main actors of the innovation ecosystem. Startups and spin-offs, investors, universities, institutions, incubators, research centers, science and technological parks, companies find in Startupbusiness network a very useful tool that allows direct and democratic relations between them and can bypass any kind of physical, geographical and structural barrier.