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📆 Join the launch of @pim_nh 2.0 on Thursday 5

📆 Join the launch of @pim_nh 2.0 on Thursday 5 November from the comfort of your own couch. Host Mike Rijkers and co host → Valerie Vallenduuk will interview the following speakers:

✅ Deputy Ilse Zaal
✅ Board chairmen of Rabobank Ariënne Kooter & Eric Zwart
✅ Project leader PIM Tom van de Schoot
✅ Various entrepreneurs and financiers

The online launch will cover topics such as COVID19 in relation to financing for entrepreneurs, the cooperation between corporates and innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups and also success stories of entrepreneurs in the past year.

Register via the link in bio to get an automatic reminder of the event!

🏆 And the winner is... On October 7, 30 ambiti

🏆 And the winner is...

On October 7, 30 ambitious UvA students, PhDs and researchers pitched the startup idea they’ve had been working on over the course of the Inspire: Entrepreneurship program, part of the ACE Explore Programs in collaboration with @ixa_amsterdam 🍃

After careful deliberation the jury - Monique Van Wordragen, Peter van der Donk, Elizaveta Kolesnichenko and Mark de Graef - selected the winner: the team behind The New Green Energy. 🍃

Tijmen Bakker, Robin Laird and Ruknul Ferdous teamed up to work on the innovative business idea that Tijmen developed during his PhD at UvA. Curious to find out more? Read the full article via the #linkinbio

🔊 ACE alumnus @dyme.app - the money saving app

🔊 ACE alumnus @dyme.app - the money saving app - is growing and looking for an experienced online marketeer!

As the Senior Online Marketeer at Dyme, you will be responsible for all paid marketing within a fast-growing Fintech startup. It will be your task to spend significant budgets across a range of channels, and to optimize the ads, messaging, audiences and targeting in order to maximise ROI.

The team is looking for:
👉🏽 A data driven marketer, who is fluent with different marketing and analytics tools.
👉🏽 Able to work independently, and take full responsibility for budgets and ROI.
👉🏽 Minimum of 3 years experience in an online marketing related job.

Help Dyme grow to over 1 million happy users and apply for a first interview now via the #linkinbio

📣 Looking for a skilled student or a jobstarter

📣 Looking for a skilled student or a jobstarter that adds value to your company in a short amount of time? StudiJob offers support in all areas of expertise: a data-scientist, growth hacker or administrative support, you name it!

In collaboration with ACE, StudiJob offers a special discount in 2020 for their services! Want to know more? Fill in your company details and you will receive the PDF with our services and discounts.

Get your discount now via the #linkinbio

🔥 Join us! On October 21st our “Pimp My: Busi

🔥 Join us! On October 21st our “Pimp My: Business idea” in collaboration with @aprove_amc will take place online from 12:00-13:00. Sign up via the #linkinbio 🖊

“ACE is the university incubator in Amsterdam and is powered by UvA, VU, HvA and Amsterdam UMC. Through the incubation programs that take place in the Spring and in the Fall, ACE is supporting sustainable high growth ventures. ACE’ mission is to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and entrepreneurship.

The learning goal of this Pimp My session is that you will learn how to transform your research into a business (idea).”

Looking forward to (virtually) meeting you there!

Photo by: www.rotterdamsefotograaf.nl

🚀 Ready for the #FreelanceRevolution? It's with

🚀 Ready for the #FreelanceRevolution? It's with great pride that we can announce that @miniteworks is one of the promising startups participating in our Fall Incubation Program!

Minite is an end-to-end cloud platform connecting remote student freelancers with businesses, enabling them to contribute, learn and build their resume founded by kick-ass entrepreneur Micky Chen! Curious to find out more? ➡️ minite.works

Ready to join team Minite and grow your startup to the next level? Applications for our next incubation program are open until October 26! Sign up now via the #linkinbio

Last call to get your startup idea in front of men

Last call to get your startup idea in front of mentors & investors at ACE Incubator! We help you build it, validate it & take it to the moon. 🌙

🚀 Tech & Science Incubation Program for MSc & PhD Students, Researchers & Tech Professionals
🗓️ Starts November 9, 2020 (9-week program)
❗️Applications deadline October 26, 2020

Our Incubation Program helps you develop your tech or science idea into a successful company. We cover all stages of starting a business and help you boost your entrepreneurial skills. Once you are accepted into the program, we guarantee two years of support. Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is the university incubator of UvA, VU, HvA and Amsterdam UMC.

Boost your entrepreneurial skills and transform your science or tech innovation into a successful company!

Apply now via the #linkinbio

🚀 Promising news! ACE alumnus ENPICOM BV can pl

🚀 Promising news! ACE alumnus ENPICOM BV can play a huge role in the search for a vaccine against corona.

Enpicom participated in the ACE incubation program in 2015 and has reached many milestones ever since. The bioinformatics software company thinks it can play a serious role in the research into an effective vaccine against corona with the immunoGenomiX (IGX) Platform the company designed.

Read the full AD article here: https://www.ad.nl/den-bosch/software-bosch-bedrijf-enpicom-kan-belangrijke-rol-spelen-bij-zoektocht-naar-coronavaccin~ab796cf7/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharing_web&fbclid=IwAR2siBadr89YZUNJZBBCHzx4kAPMN9_pKjQKx00YUOCDWBv91atCBNqPXwI

💥 Our Inspire: Entrepreneurship Course, a colla

💥 Our Inspire: Entrepreneurship Course, a collaboration with Innovation Exchange Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, is a wrap!

30 ambitious UvA students and researchers have joined the 3-day program to learn about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship to eventually pitch their own business idea. It was amazing to see how the participants came up with so many innovative ideas in so little time.

A special thanks to the members of the jury for making this happen: Monique van Wordragen (Manager Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at UvA), Peter van der Donk (Business Developer at IXA), Liza Kolesnichenko (Head of Incubation at ACE) and Mark de Graef (Director Market Development and External Relations at UvA).

The winner will be announced shortly! 🥂

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