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YES!Delft — TU Delft and the City's No-Equity Startup Incubator

Netherlands · Delft · See the Netherlands profile

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Non-profit incubator owned by TU Delft, the Municipality of Delft and Erasmus University; by its 2015 anniversary it reported 150 startups launched, 127 still active and about €135m invested.

YES!Delft — TU Delft and the City's No-Equity Startup Incubator

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Promoter
YES!Delft (TU Delft, Municipality of Delft, Erasmus University)
Period
2005-present
Keywords
incubation, deep tech, university spin-offs

Description

YES!Delft supports startups without taking equity, through validation and accelerator programmes, and is owned by TU Delft, the Municipality of Delft and Erasmus University.
At its tenth anniversary (May 2015) Dutch press reported 150 startups launched, 127 still active, about €135m of invested capital, roughly 1,047 jobs and 306 patents. The figures come from the incubator itself and have not been independently evaluated.
It currently hosts around 70 companies in its building. The outcome data are from 2015 and should be read with that caveat.

Read the full analysis: https://yesdelft.com/about/

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