This presentation took place May 25th, 2017 in Madrid, at the #RethinkingAgriculture event organized by the Dutch Embassy and Startup Spain. It displays the Dutch policy agenda on Food and Agri as well as that on Startups as construted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (responsible for both food&agriculture and the startup agenda)

1. Sebastiaan van Lunteren
Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
Rethinking Food and
Agriculture through
start-ups
The Dutch approach
#RethinkingAgriculture | Madrid, May 25, 2017

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Prince Constantijn @ South Summit 2016
Ministry of Economic Affairs
#RethinkingAgriculture | Madrid, May 25, 2017
https://youtu.be/KmOo_eeYGxU?t=2m6s

3. - May 15, 2017
- May 17, 2017
- Mar 28, 2017
- Feb 13, 2017

4. NL Food & Ag Startup Ecosystem | May 25,
2017
Ministry of Economic Affairs4

5. The Dutch Agenda

6. The Dutch Food Agenda
From an optimized agriculture system towards an integrated sustainable food system
“In 5 to 10 years, The Netherlands needs to
be the global undisputed leader in healthy,
sustainable food”
- Martijn van Dam, Minister for Agriculture
Edith Schippers, Minister for Health
Nov 21, 2016
The Dutch Food Agenda Dutch Startup Agenda Food & Agri Startup Initiatives

7. The Dutch Food Agenda Dutch Startup Agenda Food & Agri Startup Initiatives

10. Impossible Burger, Planet Sattelite, Crispr Cas9, Data from Agfunder.com

12. Focus on
IT | Climate | Plant based | Healthy
Alternative proteins | Innovation
Technology | Biodiversity
Reduce
Malnutrition | Emissions | Pesticides
Antibiotics | Animal based products
The Dutch Food Agenda
From an optimized agriculture system towards an integrated sustainable food system
The Dutch Food Agenda Dutch Startup Agenda Food & Agri Startup Initiatives

13. The Dutch Startup Agenda
What’s Gov got to do with it?
- May, 2016
…the government is investing 50 million euros, partly into relaxing
the rules for the customary wage scheme and into startups and
small and medium sized businesses themselves.
- May 10, 2017
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14. The Dutch Food Agenda Dutch Startup Agenda Food & Agri Startup Initiatives

15. StartupDelta

16. The Netherlands-StartupDelta
The Netherlands has 10+ tech
clusters within 90 minute reach.
StartupDelta is a public-private
partnership that connects these
clusters in one single connected
hub.
Within StartupDelta entrepreneurs
collaborate with a single goal: to
create a space where entrepreneurs
standup, startup and then scale-up.
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17. What is StartupDelta?
• An independent not for profit organization
• Funded: 50/50 - public/private
• Founded in 2015 by government mandate
• Special Envoy Neelie Kroes: 2015 – June 2016
• Special Envoy HRH Prince Constantijn – June 2016 – now
• Team of 10, located @ B.Amsterdam
• Eliminating obstacles for all startups, accelerating & connecting the
startup ecosystem

18. Professionalize start-up
hubs in the Netherlands,
and link hubs and
players across the
Netherlands
Promote the Dutch
ecosystem abroad, and
connect start-ups with
international
ecosystems
Serving and translating
the interests of the
start-up ecosystem to
policy makers
STRENGTHEN AT HOME CONNECT WITH THE WORLD ADVOCATE FOR THE FUTURE
Vision: To make the Netherlands the most agile ecosystem
in Europe for starting, growing and internationalizing
businesses.

19. Access to Finance
The Dutch government supports
the funding startups by setting
guarantees and/or providing
innovation credit.
Funding in every growth stage of
the startup is supported.
The Dutch Venture Initiative-II is
Venture and Growth Capital
Fund-of-funds initiative of 200
million €.

20. Talent
The Netherlands has a well-
trained and educated multilingual
workforce.
All 13 Dutch universities are
included in the Times Higher
Education World University
Ranking. The 4 technical
universities are among the best
worldwide.
Techniekpact is a public-private
agreement to match education
with the demands on the labor
market.

21. Skills
NL Groeit is a program in which
experienced entrepreneurs
provide coaching to
entrepreneurs that want to grow
their business.
Ideas from Europe is a program
to support entrepreneurs with a
solution for a global challenge to
scale up their business.

22. Action Plan

23. Attracting Entrepreneurs
The Netherlands has an excellent
business climate.
The Netherlands has a welcoming
immigrations procedure for
international innovative
entrepreneurs.
Since January 2015, the
Netherlands offers the possibility
for international entrepreneurs to
come here and start a business
using a startup visa.
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24. Startups in NL
2,500 – 3,500 Tech Startups
Amsterdam #19 in 2017 Genome Startup Ranking.  Top 5
# 7 in The World: Startup Output and Exit Value
2016: 400 New Startups
Startup ecosystem value: € 13 billion
Largest Investment Round 2017: Picnic - € 100 mln
Government Invests € 50 mln In Fiscal Advantage for Startups
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25. Events and Missions
The Netherlands organizes
international startup events like
the The Next Web conference and
Startup Fest Europe
The Netherlands organizes startup
missions to international events
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Dutch Food & Agri Startup Initiatives

27. Dutch Food & Agri Startup Initiatives
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28. NATIONAL
ONE-WEEK
BOOTCAMPS
PER COUNTRY
EUROPEANLAUNCH
EUROPEANFINALS
May
2017
SEP
2017
OCT
2017
Accelerator
Program
DEC
2017
2018
NATIONALFINALS
NATIONALSELECTION
Den Bosch
EUFINALS
CSE
Program
European Food Startup of the Year Challenge
“The songfestival for agri&food startups”
www.bit.ly/eafsoty FoodNexus, Startlife

30. Sebastiaan
van Lunteren
s.vanlunteren@minez.nl
@delunter
Gracias
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