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DEEPTECH

DEEPTECH

Deeptech: The engine for national resilience

Deeptech is not just innovation; it is the critical engine for our national resilience, solving urgent global challenges in climate, security, and health. The Netherlands is rich with scientific breakthroughs, but we must close the scaling gap and transform science into global business. 

Deeptech: The engine for national resilience

Deeptech: The engine for national resilience

Deeptech is not just innovation; it is the critical engine for our national resilience, solving urgent global challenges in climate, security, and health. The Netherlands is rich with scientific breakthroughs, but we must close the scaling gap and transform science into global business. 

Deeptech is not just innovation; it is the critical engine for our national resilience, solving urgent global challenges in climate, security, and health. The Netherlands is rich with scientific breakthroughs, but we must close the scaling gap and transform science into global business. 

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REMOVING SCALING BARRIERS

REMOVING SCALING BARRIERS

REMOVING SCALING BARRIERS

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That's why we systematically remove structural barriers; unlock capital, provide world-class scaling expertise, and connect deeptech startups to global markets to accelerate the growth of these strategic companies and translate Dutch science into lasting societal impact.

That's why we systematically remove structural barriers; unlock capital, provide world-class scaling expertise, and connect deeptech startups to global markets to accelerate the growth of these strategic companies and translate Dutch science into lasting societal impact.

That's why we systematically remove structural barriers; unlock capital, provide world-class scaling expertise, and connect deeptech startups to global markets to accelerate the growth of these strategic companies and translate Dutch science into lasting societal impact.

Accelerating science to market and beyond

Accelerating science to market and beyond

Accelerating science to market and beyond

We provide deeptech founders with the critical frameworks, capital connections, and expertise required to turn their ambitious breakthroughs into international tech champions.

We provide deeptech founders with the critical frameworks, capital connections, and expertise required to turn their ambitious breakthroughs into international tech champions.

We provide deeptech founders with the critical frameworks, capital connections, and expertise required to turn their ambitious breakthroughs into international tech champions.

Curated Expertise Sessions

Founders gain practical expertise from succesful peers, leading industry operators like ASML, and global unicorn founders.

Curated Expertise Sessions

Founders gain practical expertise from succesful peers, leading industry operators like ASML, and global unicorn founders.

Curated Expertise Sessions

Founders gain practical expertise from succesful peers, leading industry operators like ASML, and global unicorn founders.

Curated Expertise Sessions

Founders gain practical expertise from succesful peers, leading industry operators like ASML, and global unicorn founders.

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Scaling Programme

Our Pole Position Programme equips deeptech founders with tailored strategies, expert advice, and a peer network to transform science into scalable, global ventures.

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Scaling Programme

Our Pole Position Programme equips deeptech founders with tailored strategies, expert advice, and a peer network to transform science into scalable, global ventures.

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Scaling Programme

Our Pole Position Programme equips deeptech founders with tailored strategies, expert advice, and a peer network to transform science into scalable, global ventures.

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Scaling Programme

Our Pole Position Programme equips deeptech founders with tailored strategies, expert advice, and a peer network to transform science into scalable, global ventures.

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Investor Gatherings

We build direct international bridges through curated sessions, events and introductions, ensuring high-potential ventures meet the right VCs needed to secure substantial growth capital.

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Investor Gatherings

We build direct international bridges through curated sessions, events and introductions, ensuring high-potential ventures meet the right VCs needed to secure substantial growth capital.

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Investor Gatherings

We build direct international bridges through curated sessions, events and introductions, ensuring high-potential ventures meet the right VCs needed to secure substantial growth capital.

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Investor Gatherings

We build direct international bridges through curated sessions, events and introductions, ensuring high-potential ventures meet the right VCs needed to secure substantial growth capital.

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International Trips

We take deeptech leaders directly to international powerhouses like the US, forging overseas industry partnerships and securing critical foreign capital.

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International Trips

We take deeptech leaders directly to international powerhouses like the US, forging overseas industry partnerships and securing critical foreign capital.

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International Trips

We take deeptech leaders directly to international powerhouses like the US, forging overseas industry partnerships and securing critical foreign capital.

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International Trips

We take deeptech leaders directly to international powerhouses like the US, forging overseas industry partnerships and securing critical foreign capital.

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Hello Tomorrow

Showcasing Dutch deeptech ventures with our partners InvestNL and TNO at Hello Tomorrow to attract European funding and partnerships.

Hello Tomorrow

Showcasing Dutch deeptech ventures with our partners InvestNL and TNO at Hello Tomorrow to attract European funding and partnerships.

Hello Tomorrow

Showcasing Dutch deeptech ventures with our partners InvestNL and TNO at Hello Tomorrow to attract European funding and partnerships.

Hello Tomorrow

Showcasing Dutch deeptech ventures with our partners InvestNL and TNO at Hello Tomorrow to attract European funding and partnerships.

Reports

Mapping the Dutch deeptech ecosystem and its key founder challenges to guide strategic growth.

Reports

Mapping the Dutch deeptech ecosystem and its key founder challenges to guide strategic growth.

Reports

Mapping the Dutch deeptech ecosystem and its key founder challenges to guide strategic growth.

Reports

Mapping the Dutch deeptech ecosystem and its key founder challenges to guide strategic growth.

Propelling the Future of Compute

Propelling the Future of Compute

Propelling the Future of Compute

Propelling the Future of Compute

Techleap follows a thematic approach to provide tailored insights and relevant support, tackling industry-specific challenges and solutions. Our initial focus is on fostering the ecosystem for pioneering, next-generation computing technologies. In the years ahead, we’ll expand this focus to other key deep technologies.

Techleap follows a thematic approach to provide tailored insights and relevant support, tackling industry-specific challenges and solutions. Our initial focus is on fostering the ecosystem for pioneering, next-generation computing technologies. In the years ahead, we’ll expand this focus to other key deep technologies.


Techleap follows a thematic approach to provide tailored insights and relevant support, tackling industry specific challenges. In 2025, we focused our support on a cohort of pioneering scaleups building the next generation of computing technologies. In the years ahead, we’ll expand our focus to other key deep technologies.

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Investor Gatherings

Throughout the year, we curate private,investor gatherings to connect Future of Compute pioneers with relevant international VCs and corporate capital needed to fund their hardware development and achieve global scale.

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Pole Position Programme: Future of Compute Cohort

Our Pole Position Programme equipped a cohort of Future of Compute founders with tailored strategies and a peer network to successfully scale their pioneering technologies, focusing on Semicon, Photonics, and Quantum Computing.

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Hello Tomorrow 2025 in Paris

Early 2025 saw us take off to Hello Tomorrow in Paris, showcasing our most disruptive Dutch Compute ventures! Teaming up with TNO and InvestNL as ‘Discover Dutch Deeptech’, we connected with vital European funding and sparked high-value partnerships. The event capped off with our signature Dutch Deeptech Drinks for the entire Deeptech ecosystem.

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Founder Trip to Silicon Valley

From October 13–15, 2025, Techleap brought eleven of the most promising compute ventures to the Bay Area. The mission successfully built stronger connections with U.S. leading industry operators and international VCs, positioning the Future of Compute cohort for substantial global expansion.

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Curated Expertise Sessions

Sessions organised throughout the year providing compute founders with hands-on expertise from successful peers and global leaders, focusing on critical scaling hurdles like supply chain management, go-to-market strategies and advanced hardware protection.

Compute

Investor Gatherings

Throughout the year, we curate private investor gatherings to connect Future of Compute pioneers with relevant international VCs and corporate capital needed to fund their hardware development and achieve global scale.

Compute

Pole Position Programme: Future of Compute Cohort

Our Pole Position Programme equipped a cohort of Future of Compute founders with tailored strategies and a peer network to successfully scale their pioneering technologies, focusing on Semicon, Photonics, and Quantum Computing.

Compute

Hello Tomorrow 2025 in Paris

Early 2025 saw us take off to Hello Tomorrow in Paris, showcasing our most disruptive Dutch Compute ventures! Teaming up with TNO and InvestNL as ‘Discover Dutch Deeptech’, we connected with vital European funding and sparked high-value partnerships. The event capped off with our signature Dutch Deeptech Drinks for the entire Deeptech ecosystem.

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Compute

Founder Trip to Silicon Valley

From October 13–15, 2025, Techleap brought eleven of the most promising compute ventures to the Bay Area. The mission successfully built stronger connections with U.S. leading industry operators and international VCs, positioning the Future of Compute cohort for substantial global expansion.

Compute

Curated Expertise Sessions

Sessions organised throughout the year providing compute founders with hands-on expertise from successful peers and global leaders, focusing on critical scaling hurdles like supply chain management, go-to-market strategies and advanced hardware protection.

Compute

Investor Gatherings

Throughout the year, we curate private investor gatherings to connect Future of Compute pioneers with relevant international VCs and corporate capital needed to fund their hardware development and achieve global scale.

Compute

Pole Position Programme: Future of Compute Cohort

Our Pole Position Programme equipped a cohort of Future of Compute founders with tailored strategies and a peer network to successfully scale their pioneering technologies, focusing on Semicon, Photonics, and Quantum Computing.

Compute

Hello Tomorrow 2025 in Paris

Early 2025 saw us take off to Hello Tomorrow in Paris, showcasing our most disruptive Dutch Compute ventures! Teaming up with TNO and InvestNL as ‘Discover Dutch Deeptech’, we connected with vital European funding and sparked high-value partnerships. The event capped off with our signature Dutch Deeptech Drinks for the entire Deeptech ecosystem.

A detailed close-up of a computer motherboard.

Compute

Founder Trip to Silicon Valley

From October 13–15, 2025, Techleap brought eleven of the most promising compute ventures to the Bay Area. The mission successfully built stronger connections with U.S. leading industry operators and international VCs, positioning the Future of Compute cohort for substantial global expansion.

Compute

Curated Expertise Sessions

Sessions organised throughout the year providing compute founders with hands-on expertise from successful peers and global leaders, focusing on critical scaling hurdles like supply chain management, go-to-market strategies and advanced hardware protection.

Compute

Investor Gatherings

Throughout the year, we curate private investor gatherings to connect Future of Compute pioneers with relevant international VCs and corporate capital needed to fund their hardware development and achieve global scale.

Compute

Pole Position Programme: Future of Compute Cohort

Our Pole Position Programme equipped a cohort of Future of Compute founders with tailored strategies and a peer network to successfully scale their pioneering technologies, focusing on Semicon, Photonics, and Quantum Computing.

Compute

Hello Tomorrow 2025 in Paris

Early 2025 saw us take off to Hello Tomorrow in Paris, showcasing our most disruptive Dutch Compute ventures! Teaming up with TNO and InvestNL as ‘Discover Dutch Deeptech’, we connected with vital European funding and sparked high-value partnerships. The event capped off with our signature Dutch Deeptech Drinks for the entire Deeptech ecosystem.

A detailed close-up of a computer motherboard.

Compute

Founder Trip to Silicon Valley

From October 13–15, 2025, Techleap brought eleven of the most promising compute ventures to the Bay Area. The mission successfully built stronger connections with U.S. leading industry operators and international VCs, positioning the Future of Compute cohort for substantial global expansion.

Compute

Curated Expertise Sessions

Sessions organised throughout the year providing compute founders with hands-on expertise from successful peers and global leaders, focusing on critical scaling hurdles like supply chain management, go-to-market strategies and advanced hardware protection.

Compute

Investor Gatherings

Throughout the year, we curate private investor gatherings to connect Future of Compute pioneers with relevant international VCs and corporate capital needed to fund their hardware development and achieve global scale.

Compute

Pole Position Programme: Future of Compute Cohort

Our Pole Position Programme equipped a cohort of Future of Compute founders with tailored strategies and a peer network to successfully scale their pioneering technologies, focusing on Semicon, Photonics, and Quantum Computing.

Compute

Hello Tomorrow 2025 in Paris

Early 2025 saw us take off to Hello Tomorrow in Paris, showcasing our most disruptive Dutch Compute ventures! Teaming up with TNO and InvestNL as ‘Discover Dutch Deeptech’, we connected with vital European funding and sparked high-value partnerships. The event capped off with our signature Dutch Deeptech Drinks for the entire Deeptech ecosystem.

A detailed close-up of a computer motherboard.

Compute

Founder Trip to Silicon Valley

From October 13–15, 2025, Techleap brought eleven of the most promising compute ventures to the Bay Area. The mission successfully built stronger connections with U.S. leading industry operators and international VCs, positioning the Future of Compute cohort for substantial global expansion.

Compute

Curated Expertise Sessions

Sessions organised throughout the year providing compute founders with hands-on expertise from successful peers and global leaders, focusing on critical scaling hurdles like supply chain management, go-to-market strategies and advanced hardware protection.

NEXT UP

NEXT UP

NEXT UP

ACCELERATING ENERGY INNOVATION

ACCELERATING ENERGY INNOVATION

ACCELERATING ENERGY INNOVATION

Building directly on the success of our Future of Compute theme, Techleap is ramping up to launch its next theme focused on Energy in 2026. Our research will identify and our programme will tackle energy-specific scaling gaps and strategic challenges to actively build globally competitive companies in this key domain.

Building directly on the success of our Future of Compute theme, Techleap is ramping up to launch its next theme focused on Energy in 2026. Our research will identify and our programme will tackle energy-specific scaling gaps and strategic challenges to actively build globally competitive companies in this key domain.

Building directly on the success of our Future of Compute theme, Techleap is ramping up to launch its next theme focused on Energy in 2026. Our research will identify and our programme will tackle energy-specific scaling gaps and strategic challenges to actively build globally competitive companies in this key domain.