Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Startups.be
EU Transparency Register
064914715900-89 First registered on 03 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
Uniting startups with incubators & accelerators, startup communities, investors, entrepreneurial experts and public agencies, Startups.be is the one-stop-shop for Belgian tech entrepreneurship. The non-profit organization provides entrepreneurs easy & qualitative access to all of the supporting instruments, programs and activities throughout Belgium. They can also effectively speed up their international market-entry of Belgian startups through the unique Go Global programs.
Supported by a large number of Entrepreneur Experts, Startups.be develops win-win relationships between all of the stakeholders in the startup ecosystem. As a community builder, Startups.be provides the #betech startups with a voice that resonates at all policy levels.
MATCHMAKING
Startups.be operates as a one-stop-shop where all information is gathered on Belgian technology entrepreneurship, startups, supporting instruments & programs and events. Anyone can sign up to the community (in a freemium model) and publish relevant content, for dissemination in the network. Entrepreneurs and Community Partners receive tailormade updates on the most relevant opportunities, calls and upcoming events.
But we also "connect the dots" more actively, providing matchmaking services to the different stakeholders - providing access to relevant and best-in-class startups, incubators & accelerators, investors, corporate innovators and experienced entrepreneurs & mentors.
Providing a single-point-of-contact allows us to not only build bridges in the local startup ecosystem, but also with key stakeholders in other startup hubs and nations. Startups.be therefore not only maps and connects the ecosystem, but helps to build and grow it too.
GO GLOBAL
Startups.be helps startups to leverage this network through hands-on Go Global programmes to the biggest web & tech conferences and the major startup hubs across the world, providing demo & pitching opportunities as well as B2B matchmaking to potential investors, customers and partners.
CENTER OF EXPERTISE
Working with hundreds of experts and partners on technology entrepreneurship and building & scaling startups on a global scale, Startups.be has grown into a center of expertise in this area. Working the data that has been gathered on all these stakeholders, we carry out research and report insights back to the community.
As an active contributor to the high-impact Belgian Startup Manifesto (www.startupmanifesto.be), Startups.be has grown the expertise of bringing these insights to key decision makers and driving them to implementation.
Startups.be has therefore become a trusted partner of the regional Enterprise Agencies, the Export & Invest Agencies, the Belgian government and several European Commission departments on digital economy, born global strategies and the Digital Single Market.
Startups.be is also one of the founding - and leading - partners of the European Startup Network, actively interconnecting national startup ecosystems to provide:
- joint data analysis & research (repositories, studies, infographics, research projects on startups & startup ecosystems)
- joint international go-to-market programmes providing demo stages, pitching opportunities & B2B matchmaking with potential investors, customers and partners
- benchmarking, sharing best practices and support to build and strengthen the national startup ecosystemsMain EU files targeted
- Startup Europe programmes, including projects, Startup Europe Week, Startup Europe Summit
- FIWARE programme
- Digital Agenda initiatives
- Digital Single Market Strategy
- DG Connect, DG Grow, DG RTD initiativesAddress
Head Office
Cantersteen 10-12
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Karen Boers (Managing Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Karen Boers (Managing Director)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
European Startup Network: www.europeanstartupnetwork.org
Startup Nations: http://www.startupnations.org/
EBN: ebn.eu
Allied for Startups: http://alliedforstartups.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
102,000 € (Source: Startupreneurs, Startupreneurs II & START2ACT project)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- coordinator of the H2020 project LIFE (learning incrementally from failed entrepreneurship)
- partner in 2 EU "Erasmus for Young Entrereneurs" projects (an exchange program for young entrepreneurs)
- partner in the MY-GATEWAY project (ICT32)
- active partner for the EC Startup Europe team
- local host & lead coordinator for the Net Futures 2015-2016-2017 conferences (organized by DG Connect)
- "Digital Minds for Belgium" committee member, helping national government implement the first Digital Agenda for Belgium
- founding partner of the European Startup Network, interconnecting 24 national startup associations across Europe (and in itself a partner in the ICT32 project SEP2.0)Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
5 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 31 Aug 2016 Location Brussels Subject Teaching entrepreneurship and fighting radicalisation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject startups, digital market DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 11 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject Startups Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Feb 2015 Location Berlaymont Subject Meeting with Xavier Damman and Karen Boers DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists