Amsterdam, June 5 2025 – Techleap and Google proudly announce a strategic partnership. Building on the initial collaboration in 2024, this partnership has evolved into a focused strategy for 2025, grounded in a shared mission to help the Netherlands remain at the forefront of innovation through accelerating AI adoption and support founders with world-class tools, insights, and ecosystem access.

Accelerating AI adoption across the Dutch tech landscape

An important step for ensuring even more growth in AI is to work together to promote the importance of AI and identify opportunities where it can have the greatest impact. This means bringing knowledge, technology infrastructure, solutions and human capital to the table, so that everyone can benefit. 

By joining forces, Google and Techleap can have a great impact in making AI useful for everyone. 

Together, we’re committed to keep the Netherlands at the forefront of innovation, through:

  • Accelerating AI adoption: We’ll collaborate with industry leaders and stakeholders to spark conversations, share knowledge, and accelerate the responsible and impactful use of AI across the Dutch tech landscape.
  • Supporting founders to scale: Through Techleap’s programming, Google is equipping top Dutch scaleups and their teams with the AI expertise, tools, and strategic guidance they need to scale with confidence.

Google is partnering with Techleap to strengthen the Dutch AI ecosystem. By combining Google‘s AI expertise and resources with Techleap’s network and deep understanding of the Dutch startup and scale-up landscape, the aim is to foster collaboration, drive thought leadership, and make the benefits of AI accessible to businesses.

Martijn Bertisen, VP Google Benelux

From catching up to paving the way: boost your AI knowledge

With the pace of AI accelerating, Techleap and Google are committed to ensuring that The Netherlands remains at the forefront of responsible and impactful AI development and innovation.

This partnership will bring founders and their leadership teams the strategies, tools and crucial insights needed to scale their companies with confidence and purpose.

Join the Google sessions and events to:

  1. Power your growth with AI
    Get exclusive access to expertise, tools and strategic insights from Google to help you scale faster, smarter, and more sustainably.
  2. Apply AI in your core business
    Learn how to apply AI across your product development, operations, and long-term growth strategy through hands-on sessions designed for leadership teams.
  3. Connect & Co-Create
    Join a powerful community of scaleup founders, industry leaders, and AI experts to shape the future of responsible AI in the Dutch tech ecosystem.


Empowering you to lead with AI: confidently, responsibly, and at scale

By combining Google’s expertise on AI and leading position in the tech ecosystem with Techleap’s scaleup community, this partnership is uniquely positioned to accelerate responsible AI innovation across the Dutch tech ecosystem.

“This partnership brings AI from the sidelines into the boardroom. By embedding Google’s knowledge into our programmes and ecosystem initiatives, we’re enabling tech leaders to make smarter and future-focused decisions.” – Maarten Cleeren, Managing Director, Techleap

Coming Up

Join us at:

  • Workshop: Integrating Generative AI in company workflows on June 17
  • AI Connect @World Summit AI (invite only) on October 8

For more information, visit the Techleap website or follow updates on LinkedIn.

About Techleap

Techleap is a non-profit organisation subsidised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs that’s working towards a more public-private funded program. It aims to accelerate the growth of Dutch tech start-ups and scaleups. 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 and commit with Techleap’s mission.

About Google

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This mission drives the development of our products and platforms, including Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome, and YouTube, which play a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions. Google’s integral role in society comes with a clear commitment to significantly improving lives. We fulfill this commitment by prioritizing online user protection, expanding global opportunities, and advancing sustainability. We believe artificial intelligence has the power to inspire and empower individuals and businesses across different fields, accelerating the realization of innovative ideas. Therefore, we are dedicated to making AI more helpful and accessible to all. We enable businesses of all sizes to grow and innovate, empowering them to build transformative products and address complex challenges.

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