{"id":4127,"date":"2015-10-21T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:03:05","slug":"startups-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/2015\/10\/21\/startups-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups in Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven startups have been selected to participate in the City\u2019s accelerator programme Startup in Residence<\/a>. The young companies, which were selected out of 85 applicants, will work on the City\u2019s challenges in the field of Mobility, Healthy City, Circular Economy and Vibrant City.<\/p>\n

With Startup in Residence the City embraces young companies\u2019 innovative solutions for the challenges in city development. In case of successful solutions, the City of Amsterdam will procure and act as launching customer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Municipalities as launching customer<\/strong>
\nTo have the local government act as launching customer is one of the measures in StartupAmsterdam\u2019s action programme, to this end StartupAmsterdam worked together with Amsterdam\u2019s CTO office to develop the governmental accelerator Startup in Residence. On demo-day<\/a> the startups will present their innovation before other national and international municipalities. <\/p>\n

The Startup in Residence pilot project will kick off in November and run for four months, until March 2016. During this time, the startups will work with the City of Amsterdam on a voluntary basis. With Startup in Residence the City takes a credential role and actively showcases success and opportunities to other partners, both public and private, offering a gateway to the participating startups to scale. <\/p>\n

Selected startups<\/strong><\/p>\n