We talked to Anja Wesbuer, the Managing Director for the Netherlands at rent24, whose goal is to create a community of startups and scaleups, entrepreneurs, corporate innovators and investors that will help each other grow their businesses.

What Makes You Click is an interactive workshop led by Justin Wilcox, where a group of innovators will work through how to find, talk to and solve their customers’ problems. We’re giving away one free ticket, a 10% discount (discount code: leapfunder) and 3 FOCUS Framework books that help you build a validated, sustainable and scalable business.

Check out promising startups currently raising funding: Civocracy & NoticeSound. Stay tuned for our coming soon rounds: Bitz, PlenSat & ITPA Group.

Happy investing,

Tienko, Rutger, Myrthe, Andrea, Nika & Mark

• Thursday, October 11: Techstars Second Thursday Berlin – October Edition!
• Friday, October 12: Leapfunder + GTEC Investor Round Table, Berlin
• Friday, October 19: Round Table Session, Eindhoven
• Friday, October 26: Round Table Session, Delft
• Monday, October 29: Women in Tech Regatta, Amsterdam
• Friday, November 9: Leapfunder + GTEC Investor Round Table, Berlin
• Tuesday, November 27: Startupbootcamp Digital Health Demo Day, Berlin

Last chance to invest: Civocracy is Europe’s leading civic tech platform. There are just 5 more days to join our round, which currently has €111K (including funds from the previous Head of Public Sector at HP and Atos). We have been listed as one of Europe’s top 100 pioneering digital companies by a leading international publication (it will be officially announced in November). Visit our round here.

NoticeSound identifies potential success of tracks in different target markets to understand their value and how to market them. We have developed a Track Management System and an application that is created for businesses in the entertainment industry. NoticeSound was founded in 2017 with >15 investors. We collaborate with one of the largest research agencies in the world, where we innovate in mapping out the musical landscape with data. To strengthen our position in the market we decided to collaborate with New Sales Ventures to expand our marketing & sales activities. In 1 week, our minimum investment was reached with them and we are continuing to search for other strategic investors that would like to discover talent that matters. Visit our round here.

Bitz is your payment app for festivals and social events. For event organizers who want to provide a seamless ordering process, Bitz offers a digital coin and a payment app for festivals and social events. Learn more.

PlenSat is a clinical stage company with a patented therapeutic approach to treating patients suffering from overweight and obesity. We created a new device that will allow patients to control their weight. Learn more.

ITPA Group prevents IT performance issues and resolves delays and instabilities in the entire IT environment. They solve problems of the organisations where IT is a backbone of the operations. Learn more.

• Amber and the municipality of Eindhoven have agreed that the car company may park for free in Eindhoven, in exchange for data.
• Civocracy’s Chloé Pahud is a finalist for the Global Digital Women award.
• NesteggBiotech has been approved for an innovation loan from Rabobank.
• Ligo has attracted a new investment of €500,000.
• Undagrid was featured in the Business Insider Nederland.