
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

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.

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.