If you’ve just started a new venture, it can be challenging to find investors. Risk capital is especially hard to come by. A start-up needs investment in order to grow into a more mature start-up with revenues. This need is met by the TTT-AI Investment Fund.
The Growth Program is carried out by key partner LUMO Labs in close collaboration with the TTT-AI project team. The fund is managed independently from the TTT-AI Venture Building Program.
TTT-AI’s Investment Fund allows your start-up to grow into a business with customers.
Let your idea grow from early start-up towards a spin-off in business
Program highlights
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Individualized, tailor-made approach
In close collaboration with the start-up’s team, a tailor-made plan is developed to meet the start-up’s needs and overcome the foreseen challenges. We also help you to complete your team.
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AI expertise + domain-expertise
AI and technical experts will support your start-up with advice, prototyping and product-development. Participating partners and affiliated partners can provide access to data sets and a testing environment.
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Mentorship
Entrepreneurial experts offer advice on the IP and legal strategy, as well as cost and revenue streams. These mentors help you develop a go-to-market strategy and guide you in the execution, providing expert knowledge on markets and end-users, business modelling and stakeholder management.
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Financial investments
To help your new venture grow into a more mature business with revenues, the TTT-AI Investment Fund offers convertible loans of €250k.
How to apply for this program
While this fund is designed for the TTT-AI program, it is open to all early-stage Dutch academic AI start-ups that do not yet have revenues. Before applying for a convertible loan from the TTT-AI Investment Fund, first check if your start-up meets the following criteria:
To qualify, the start-up must:
- Be located in the Netherlands.
- Be research based: i.e., it builds on the knowledge of knowledge institutes.
- makes use of or develops AI technology (TRL3 and higher).
- Be in a pre-seed stage, i.e., have no revenues or commercial activities yet.
- potentially have a positive impact on society.
Meeting the criteria?
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