Tech Events by Startup Village Amsterdam

A two-hour working session at Startup Village on Science Park for early-stage tech founders: building a brand concept, making it distinctive, and using storytelling to get customers and investors to repeat it back to you. The focus is the narrative that has to survive a pitch deck, a landing page and a hiring conversation without changing shape. Run by The Nursery, hosted by Startup Village Amsterdam, facilitated by Danielle — the registration page gives no surname or company. 10:00 to 12:00, free, and sold out as of 3 November, so watch for returns if you want in. Why go: branding is the work founders put off until a fundraise forces it, and two hours with a facilitator beats another positioning doc nobody reads. Best for pre-seed and seed founders who cannot yet explain the company in one sentence.

with Jasper Wognum (, avocado pitch)

Startup Village's monthly community drinks, this time built around pitching, run with avocado pitch and Graduate Ventures. From 17:00 Jasper Wognum and the avocado pitch team share practical tips for making a pitch stand out. Then 20 selected founders get one minute each on stage, followed by a minute of feedback on delivery from avocado pitch and a minute on content and business potential from Graduate Ventures. Drinks and networking with founders, alumni and student entrepreneurs from 19:00. Walk-in from 16:30 at Startup Village, Science Park 608. Free. To pitch, answer the three questions when you register; the organisers confirm the 20 slots. Why go: fast, specific feedback on your one-minute story from Graduate Ventures, in the room where Science Park's AI and deeptech founders actually hang out. Best for pre-seed founders.

Startup Village's monthly community drinks, this month paired with a presentation from the Municipality of Amsterdam's StartupAmsterdam team on how the city's startup ecosystem is organised and what support actually exists. Walk-in from 16:30, presentation 17:00 to 18:00, drinks until 19:00. Startup Village sits on Amsterdam Science Park at Science Park 608, where most of the city's deeptech and university spin-out community is based. Free, with registration on Eventbrite. Why go: the ecosystem presentation makes this more useful than a standard drinks night — you get the map of who funds and supports what, then an hour with the founders already in it. Best for founders new to Amsterdam, and for anyone trying to find the deeptech side of the city.

with Jasper Wognum (Founder, Avocado Pitch)

An intensive, hands-on pitch session for founders in Startup Village's Nursery incubator, led by Jasper Wognum of Avocado Pitch: making your company story clear, memorable and compelling when you only have a short window to make an impression. At Startup Village on Amsterdam Science Park, 13:00 to 16:30.

A working session at Startup Village on the Dutch and EU grant landscape for deeptech — WBSO, MIT, EIC and the rest — run with Sira Incentives. Non-dilutive funding is the least glamorous and most useful topic for a hardware or deeptech founder in the Netherlands, and this is a practitioner walking through it rather than a pitch.

A weekly community lunch at Startup Village on Amsterdam Science Park - a relaxed midday table where founders, startup teams and researchers from the Science Park ecosystem meet over a simple fresh lunch. EUR8 walk-in (EUR6 with a strippenkaart); RSVP required. A low-key way to plug into the Startup Village community during the quiet summer weeks.