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Public Affairs & Ecosystem

We hear what founders are up against. We make sure policymakers, politicians and ecosystem players do too.

We hear what founders are up against. We make sure policymakers, politicians and ecosystem players do too.

We hear what founders are up against. We make sure policymakers, politicians and ecosystem players do too.

Why this exists

Why this exists

Why this exists

Building a company means navigating funding gaps, regulation, and talent shortages — problems founders rarely have the time or platform to raise with government directly. Public Affairs & Ecosystem closes that gap: bringing what founders are actually facing to the policymakers, politicians, and partners who can act on it.

Building a company means navigating funding gaps, regulation, and talent shortages — problems founders rarely have the time or platform to raise with government directly. Public Affairs & Ecosystem closes that gap: bringing what founders are actually facing to the policymakers, politicians, and partners who can act on it.

Building a company means navigating funding gaps, regulation, and talent shortages — problems founders rarely have the time or platform to raise with government directly. Public Affairs & Ecosystem closes that gap: bringing what founders are actually facing to the policymakers, politicians, and partners who can act on it.

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Regulation

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Talent

Founders at a Techleap session at YES!Delft

How we

bridge the gap

How we

Bridge the gap

How we

bridge the gap

how we bridge

the gap

Founder proximity

Stay close to founders through Techleap’s programmes and wider network, to understand the real barriers to scaling — funding, regulation, talent, market access.

Policy positions

Turn what founders tell us into clear policy positions that government and politicians can act on.

National representation

Represent founders’ needs directly to government, policymakers, and politicians, here in the Netherlands.

International voice

Take that same voice into international policy and investment conversations.

Evidence base

Publish the State of Dutch Tech report as our evidence base.

Strategic alliances

Build strategic alliances with partners like TNO and Invest-NL, to bring capital and research infrastructure into the support we offer founders.

Founder proximity

Stay close to founders through Techleap’s programmes and wider network, to understand the real barriers to scaling — funding, regulation, talent, market access.

Policy positions

Turn what founders tell us into clear policy positions that government and politicians can act on.

National representation

Represent founders’ needs directly to government, policymakers, and politicians, here in the Netherlands.

International voice

Take that same voice into international policy and investment conversations.

Evidence base

Publish the State of Dutch Tech report as our evidence base.

Strategic alliances

Build strategic alliances with partners like TNO and Invest-NL, to bring capital and research infrastructure into the support we offer founders.

Techleap community members in conversation at an ecosystem event

Why Techleap

Why Techleap

Why Techleap

Techleap sits close to founders, with ongoing contact through our programmes and initiatives giving us a direct, current view of what they’re actually up against — making us a natural bridge between founder reality and policy action.

Techleap sits close to founders, with ongoing contact through our programmes and initiatives giving us a direct, current view of what they’re actually up against — making us a natural bridge between founder reality and policy action.

Techleap sits close to founders, with ongoing contact through our programmes and initiatives giving us a direct, current view of what they’re actually up against — making us a natural bridge between founder reality and policy action.