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Remco Janssen

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Remco Janssen founded Silicon Canals in 2014 and is its CEO and publisher, responsible for partnerships and business development. He is an expert in digital media, covering European startups, scale-ups, and venture capital. In the past, he founded Proudly Represents, the Netherlands’ first communications and PR agency for tech startups while mentoring hundreds of them. Prior to that, he worked at Europe’s first food order website, Urbanbite, and was a football journalist for Dagblad De Pers. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

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Business

Dutch “modern milkman” Picnic raises a staggering €100M from some of the country’s wealthiest families

This is crazy. In a good way.

Mar 28, 2017

Business

Where AI meets HR: Recruitz.io banks €2M from Slingshot

The Amsterdam-based startup Recruitz.io has raised its first investment of €2 Million to further develop its innovative technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and accelerate its national and international growth.

Mar 27, 2017

Business

Dutch startup Online Succes raises €300k to expand its lead generation platform

Startup Online Succes, based in Haarlem, enables B2B marketers and their sales teams to win more deals.

Mar 9, 2017

Business

Meet Spencer, the Belgian startup that aims to fix software frustration at work

Antwerp-based digital innovation agency November Five launches Spencer, a spinoff that has created a digital workplace assistant for employees.

Mar 7, 2017

Business

Online reviews are dead; ex-CEO and employees at Wehkamp cooked up what’s next

Reviews are dead, or so it may seem.

Mar 7, 2017

Business

Dutch startup pr.co raises €400k seed round, nine years after inception

A startup that raises a seed round, nine years after its inception?

Mar 6, 2017

Business

Dutch startup enables smooth VAT-free shopping: a shopaholic’s dream come true

For shopaholics, traveling abroad equals (a lot of) tax-free shopping.

Mar 2, 2017

Business

This Dutch startup wants you to network professionally with complete strangers, one handshake at a time

Meeting new business contacts is not always easy.

Mar 1, 2017

Business

TravelBird banks multi-millions in mezzanine loan yet their financial forecast remains grim

In the Dutch tech startup scene, it's no secret that TravelBird - the daily travel discounter turned hotshot scale-up - is aiming for the moon.

Sep 23, 2016

Business

Secretive Silicon Valley unicorn “acquihires” Dutch data visualisation startup

Not long after Cloud9 got enrolled by Amazon's AWS, another poster child for the 2010-founded-Amsterdam-startups-that-moved-to-Silicon-Valley took an offer from a tech behemoth.

Aug 11, 2016

Business

Take a sneak peek into TQ, Amsterdam’s hottest new coworking space

Amsterdam has no shortage of coworking spaces.

Aug 1, 2016

Business

Startup Watermelon files for bankruptcy, as it’s torn apart by internal conflict

Watermelons burst when dropped.

Jul 27, 2016