Driving AI Innovation and Scale-Up Growth

This collaboration reflects Techleap’s long-term commitment to building a world-class tech ecosystem in the Netherlands, reinforcing the country as a global tech leader. By collaborating with industry leaders like AWS, Techleap continues to empower Dutch startups and scale-ups, ensuring they have access to cutting-edge knowledge, industry connections, and growth opportunities.

As part of the Techleap collaboration, the company will engage with local founders and CXOs of high-potential scale-ups, focusing on AI implementation strategies, go-to-market acceleration, and international expansion. AWS will participate in Techleap’s Partner Program, which includes activities such as:

Knowledge exchange and participation in events

• Hands-on AI/ML workshops for C-level Executives and Founders, designed specifically for scaling startups

• A Featured Expert AI workshop at the MEET 2025 conference with insights on the latest AI advancements

• Networking opportunities with AWS experts and industry leaders

Access to technical resources and support for members

• Dedicated AWS technical resources and solution architect access

• Strategic AI implementation guidance and mentorship

• Access to AWS’s global startup community and best practices

Further acceleration through the AWS startup program
Companies participating in the AWS Activate Startup programs might be eligible for further benefits:

• Access to exclusive C-level executive workshops and founder-focused sessions

• Dedicated support for go-to market and international expansion planning

• AWS Activate credits for qualifying startups

This collaboration marks an important step in fostering deeper engagement between entrepreneurs, industry, and policymakers, ensuring that the Dutch tech ecosystem remains competitive, inclusive, and forward-thinking.

“AWS’s expertise in AI and cloud technology makes it an invaluable partner in our mission to support Dutch scale-up founders. By fostering strategic partnerships with leading organizations like AWS, we ensure that the Dutch tech scene remains at the forefront of innovation, creating lasting impact for scale-ups and the broader ecosystem.”

Maarten Cleeren, Managing Director, Techleap.

“In today’s AI-driven economy, Dutch startups need both technical excellence and strong business fundamentals to compete globally. Through our proven track record supporting fast-scaling pioneers like Bunq, Weaviate, and Booking.com, this partnership creates a powerful launchpad for Dutch innovation.”

Danielle Gorlick, General Manager Benelux, Amazon Web Services.

Next Up

Through this collaboration, we are launching a series of knowledge sessions starting with the exclusive event for Founders and C-level Executives on “Unlock Your AI Potential: From Proof of Concept to Full-Scale Transformation” on March 11th at the AWS Amsterdam offices.For more information about Techleap, visit the Techleap website or follow updates on LinkedIn.

About Techleap

Techleap is a non-profit organization subsidized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and working towards a more public-private funded program. It aims to accelerate the growth of Dutch tech start-ups and scale-ups. The organisation creates an ideal environment for technology companies to scale by acquiring and sharing knowledge. This enables the Netherlands to better respond to major societal transitions, securing jobs, and future earning capacity. Recently, the Techleap program was extended with government subsidy until 2026 – with the ambition to expand its community programs. The organisation has set the goal of making its community initiatives self-sustaining through attracting business partnerships that align with and commit to Techleap’s mission.

About Amazon Web Services

Since launching in 2006, Amazon Web Services has been providing world-leading cloud technologies that help any organization and any individual build solutions to transform industries, communities, and lives for the better. As part of Amazon, they strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. They work backwards from their customers’ problems to provide them with cloud infrastructure that meets their needs, so they can reinvent continuously and push through barriers of what people thought was possible. Whether they are entrepreneurs launching new businesses, established companies reinventing themselves, non-profits working to advance their missions, or governments and cities seeking to serve their citizens more effectively—their customers trust AWS with their livelihoods, their goals, their ideas, and their data.