Ieder jaar presenteert het kabinet het Belastingplan op Prinsjesdag. Lang niet alle in het Belastingplan gepresenteerde plannen halen de kranten, maar dat betekent niet dat de wijzigingen geen gevolgen kunnen hebben voor de belastingheffing bij uw organisatie. Daarom informeren wij u middels onze eindejaarstips over de wijzigingen in het Belastingplan en van welke besparende tips u nog op de hoogte moet zijn.
Zowel zakelijk als privé in één digitaal overzicht. Zo bent u er zeker van dat de jaarwisseling ook voor u een financieel positieve afdronk heeft. U kunt de tips per categorie aanklikken die voor u relevant zijn. Ga hier naar alle fiscale eindejaarstips.
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Ondanks de gure winterse omstandigheden buiten, bood Slot Doddendael een warme en sfeervolle setting voor de laatste BANN-bijeenkomst van het jaar. Met een knapperende haard op de achtergrond vond het plenaire programma plaats in de indrukwekkende Ridderzaal. Martin de Bruin van BANN-partner Qserve Group leidde de sessie en deelde indrukwekkende resultaten van bijna 5 jaar Business Angels Netwerk Nijmegen (uitgelokte investeringen van maar liefst €9,5 miljoen). En hij lichtte met trots de ontwikkelingen van Predica Diagnostics, Breastel en Lizz Health uit. Gastspreker Mark Jolink van EP&C Patent Attorneys gaf een boeiende presentatie over het belang van een IP due diligence bij investeringen. Hij benadrukte hoe essentieel het is om de sterke en zwakke punten van patenten en andere intellectuele eigendomsrechten te begrijpen bij technologische- of wetenschapsgedreven bedrijven.
De bijeenkomst bood ook ruimte voor interactieve rondetafelsessies waarin de vier start-ups verder bevraagd werden door de investeerders en partners. Hier kregen de aanwezigen de kans om dieper in te gaan op de proposities en vragen te stellen aan de pitchers en hun teams. Dit waren de vier start-ups:
De avond werd afgesloten met een uitgebreid culinair vijfgangendiner tijdens het informele walking dinner, waar volop werd genetwerkt en ideeën werden uitgewisseld. We kijken terug op een geslaagde bijeenkomst vol inzichten en verbindingen. Tot de volgende sessie op 10 maart 2025!
Bent u op zoek naar jong talent dat aansluit bij uw bedrijf? Het nieuwe online vacatureplatform biedt u de kans om in contact te komen met bèta-studenten van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Via het Radboud Career Platform kunt u gratis vacatures en stageplekken plaatsen. Hiermee bereikt u onder andere studenten van de opleidingen wiskunde, natuurkunde, computing science, scheikunde en biologie.
Met een account kunt u:
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As October is slowly drawing to a close we are entering the last week of our Open Autumn Call. So far, we have an incredible response from tech startups. A record number of founders have handed in their applications to join the imec.istart.nl business accelerator program. Our call closes at November 1st, 23:59. So, if you want to join the worlds #1 university-linked business accelerator, take this opportunity now.
Innovatieve bedrijven met internationale ambities en activiteiten krijgen beter toegang tot beschikbare mogelijkheden voor ondersteuning en investering. De regionale ontwikkelingsmaatschappijen (ROM’s) en Invest International hebben hiertoe een samenwerkingsovereenkomst ondertekend. De overeenkomst bevat ook afspraken over kennisdeling, mogelijkheden voor exportfinanciering en gezamenlijke handelsmissies.
De ROM’s staan als investeerder aan de wieg van het leeuwendeel aan innovatieve startups in Nederland. In 2023 investeerden de ROM’s (totale fondsvermogen € 2,3 miljard) vanuit hun eigen fondsen € 219 miljoen in 372 startups, scale-ups en innovatieve mkb’ers. Ruim 50% van de bedrijven die venture capital aantrekt, doet dit mede dankzij een investering vanuit een regionaal ontwikkelingsfonds. Als startups uitgroeien tot scale-ups doen ze dit vaak in een internationale context. Invest International kan in deze fase doorinvesteren en internationale groei mogelijk maken. Invest International heeft een eigen investeringskapitaal van 833 miljoen euro.
Mondiale uitdagingen
De afspraken tussen de ROM’s en Invest International richten zich op start- en scale ups die mondiale uitdagingen oplossen, zoals klimaatneutrale energieoplossingen, duurzame voeding en innovaties in de gezondheidszorg. Invest International en de ROM’s bekijken welke portfoliobedrijven van de regionale ontwikkelingsmaatschappijen in aanmerking komen voor een internationale vervolginvestering van Invest International. Omgekeerd verwijst Invest International bedrijven die voor hen in een te vroege fase zitten door naar de ROM in de regio van het betreffende bedrijf.
“Internationalisering is naast innovatie de pijler onder het huidige en toekomstige verdienvermogen van Nederland”, stelt Brigit van Dijk-van de Reijt, algemeen directeur van de Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), namens ROM-Nederland. “De samenwerking van Invest International met de regionale ontwikkelingsmaatschappijen stelt ons nog beter in staat om missiegedreven startups, scale-ups en het mkb met internationaliseringsambities een vliegende start te geven en zo het Nederlands verdienvermogen in het buitenland te vergroten.”
“Een goede samenwerking tussen Invest International en regionale ontwikkelingsmaatschappijen is van cruciaal belang om Nederlandse bedrijven optimaal te kunnen ondersteunen bij hun internationale groei”, stelt Eelco Benink, Head of Equity van Invest International. “Waar de ROM’s in nauw contact staan met de bedrijven in hun regio specialiseert Invest International in financiering van internationale expansie en internationale handel. Samen versterken we de internationale positie, concurrentiekracht en het verdienvermogen van Nederlandse bedrijven, en dragen we bij aan een duurzame en vooruitstrevende economie.”
Voorinvesteringen
Naast de genoemde afspraken richt de overeenkomst zich ook op het delen van kennis tussen beide partijen (onder meer groene waterstof). Daarnaast wordt bekeken of Invest International exportfinancieringen kan verstrekken. Als bedrijven buitenlandse markten betreden vraagt dit om risicovolle voorinvesteringen. Verder zullen Invest International en de ROM’s de samenwerking op gezamenlijke handelsmissies intensiveren.
Dit artikel is geschreven door Oost NL en op de website te vinden via deze link.
Aerocount and Zereau from Nijmegen are two of the 100 companies that make up the KVK Innovation Top 100 of 2024. This year there are 15 winners, a top three in each of the five categories. We will announce the winners during the KVK Innovation Top 100 Event on Saturday 16 November in Ahoy Rotterdam.
The main jury will choose the overall winner. In addition, a jury panel will determine the top 3 in each category together with the public. Everyone can vote and thus help determine the winner of each category. You can vote via this link.
We are excited to announce a 4-week program designed by Mercator Launch to guide you towards developing a strong Value Proposition. The final deliverable is a validated Business Model Canvas. This program is perfect for entrepreneurial individuals with an innovative idea and a strong commitment to bringing it to life.
Throughout the program, we will cover key themes such as Product, Deal, Value Proposition, and Business Model. Participants are also invited to join the Pitch Training led by Davis Beckett on December 10th at Noviotech Campus.
The track includes weekly 2-hour workshops every Wednesday at Mercator Launch, along with time dedicated to working on your own business and receiving coaching. The expected time commitment for participants is approximately 4 hours per week, with the opportunity to invest more if desired.
While this track is a great fit for those taking their first steps into entrepreneurship, we’ve also seen that it provides great value for early-stage entrepreneurs who may have hit a roadblock. We help them return to the basics, using proven methods to strengthen their ideas.
This round is limited to 20 participants, so don’t miss out!
Every three and a half minutes an error can creep into your business records. Business accounting is prone to human error: wrong types of declarations, duplicate invoices, and incorrect VAT codes, to name but a few pitfalls. With their intelligent algorithms, founders Dirk Westra van Holthe, Mischa Masthoff and partner Thomas Offerman of wijcontrolerenjedata.nl (In English: ‘we check your data’) help companies to detect such errors at an early stage. Eliminate unnecessary accounting risks by catching errors in time.
Before starting wijcontrolerenjedata.nl, Mischa and Dirk worked in (financial) administration. They saw departments relying entirely on sophisticated models and dashboards. But if there are mistakes in the data, you can’t rely on the insights either. They also saw that administrative sloppiness led to unnecessary costs, peak workloads and wrongly management information. They saw an opportunity.
“Financial records are often riddled with errors. If you are lucky, these errors are caught and put on a list of things to fix. But often, the process stops there. The errors just sit there”, says Mischa. The same errors will creep back into your records the following month. Wijcontrolerenjedata.nl scans records for errors and risks and helps organizations find, fix and prevent mistakes.
Multifunctional platform
Mischa and Dirk see customers using their platform in a variety of ways, for a one-off analysis or a few analyses a year. They also have customers who use the platform to continuously check their financial administration. For example, to check for duplicate invoices in the system and avoid double payments.
How does the wijcontrolerenjedata.nl platform work? Mischa and Dirk: “We start by retrieving customer data via a secure, fully GDPR-compliant connection. We can connect to their source system or data warehouse or export the data from the system. Our algorithms then detect errors and risks in your records. We can run it daily, weekly, or annually. Any time, really.”
They continue: “After the analysis, all errors and risks appear in a drop-down list. Through a workflow, we record each error or risk and who did what, and when to fix the error or risk. Ultimately, all of this helps us to make structural improvements in the financial administration. If you continuously check for errors, you will discover patterns, that will help you avoid these errors in the future.”
Predictive model with own AImodel
At wijcontrolerenjedata.nl, they’ve been working with AI since before tools like ChatGPT were introduced. “It was cool to be able to demonstrate that we’ve been working with AI for a long time”, says Dirk. “We see that many current language models are too generic. Take a booking text, for example. You have 80 characters to tell your story. That’s a lot of abbreviations. Many AI tools can’t handle that very well.”
That is why wijcontrolerenjedata.nl is working hard to improve its own AI model. They train their model with booking texts (with the explicit permission of the customers concerned, of course). Mischa: “We have manually labelled over 100,000 booking texts to train our model, including words, dates, locations, and much more.”
Their efforts are already yielding great results. For example, they use the results of their language model to calculate time periods. Dirk explains: “Suppose you have two invoices. The first invoice says: ‘Activities De Vries week 1 to week 4’. The second invoice says: ‘Activities De Vries week 3 to week 5.’ You would pay twice for part of the work, namely weeks 3 and 4. Your current accounting software will never find this error. Getting the software to understand the content of an entry text is extremely complex.”
For example, in the data that wijcontrolerenjedata.nl manually tagged, they found 1,848 different ways of noting a date. Asterisks, dashes, they saw it all. And what about made-up words like ‘augseptoctober’? Once your language model understands a date, you can automatically compare time periods. “It is a hugely valuable application for many analyses.”
Improving is learning
On 27 May 2024, during the Business Angel Network Nijmegen (BANN), wijcontrolerenjedata.nl was one of the start-ups that pitched their story. “In preparation for BANN, we improved our ‘story’ a lot”, explains Mischa. “For entrepreneurs, it’s common to have blind spots in your story; some things make sense to you but not to an outsider. That’s why we went back to the core: what exactly do we do, and how do we help our customers? Through Briskr, who organised everything perfectly, we got in touch with various experts and investors. And BANN gave us a lot of valuable feedback. Our product is good, but there is still room for improvement in our sales strategy. Although no investment was made, we decided to improve our sales strategy ourselves. This insight alone made the BANN process invaluable!”
Time for action!
What is most important to Dirk and Mischa? To have a cool company with nice customers! And they are right on track. But the men also want to stress the need to focus on awareness: “We’re in a niche that a lot of people don’t know about yet. We have found that an error creeps into financial records every three and a half minutes. It’s like a leaky faucet. To err is human, but things get out of hand once you leave them and do nothing about them. So, get your financial records checked. Today, rather than tomorrow. The implications are bigger than you might think.”
StartUp Nijmegen is de zoektocht naar innovatieve, toonaangevende en unieke startende ondernemingen uit Nijmegen weer gestart. Jouw hulp kunnen ze hierbij hard gebruiken! Nomineer daarom jezelf of een ander voor de StartUpper van het Jaar 2024. De winnaar gaat ervandoor met deze trotse titel en €2500,- om vrij te besteden binnen de onderneming.
We willen startend ondernemerschap in de regio stimuleren en vieren. Met de StartUpper van het Jaar verkiezingen zetten we samen hardwerkende startende ondernemers in een welverdiende spotlight.
Dus: doe mee en nomineer jezelf of een ander die:
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Inschrijven kan hier! (https://forms.gle/PnYjer7Dbxqxv4e49 )Dit zal niet langer dan 5 minuten duren. Uiteindelijk worden alle inschrijvingen beoordeeld door onze jury. Zij zullen een top 3 maken waaruit op de finale avond de winnaar bekend zal worden gemaakt!
De finale avond vindt plaats op 7 november in brouwerij Florijn. De uitnodiging hiervoor ontvang je nog van ons.
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Medical self-tests have become indispensable in recent years. How are these products manufactured? The process is not without challenges. Companies are often very good at detecting diseases but tend to struggle with the production process of these tests. “This is where we come in”, says Bondus founder Bas-Jan Hoogenberg.
Both Bas-Jan and his co-founder Sven Eijpe had experience in manufacturing medical products before starting Bondus. “The process is very demanding. You can only work with safe materials that don’t interfere with the test. In addition, a medical self-test must be leak-proof: the test fluid must not escape from the product, to ensure proper functioning, which makes it difficult to mass-produce medical self-tests.”
Bonding
The Bondus solution? As the name suggests, it’s a new way of bonding materials. “We have developed a process to connect materials on a very small scale. You essentially glue plastics together. Between these plastic layers there is a network of channels through which fluids, such as blood, can flow.”
According to Bas-Jan, the Bondus technology is best compared to a circuit board. “On a circuit board there are copper tracks that conduct electricity through the chip. We don’t work with copper tracks, but with fluid channels. Our technology makes everything possible: mixing fluids or having them flow past a sensor to extract data.”
Faster to market
Bondus’ technology has a significant advantage: it enables customers to get to market faster. “Medical companies are mainly focused on their core technology: detecting disease. This is, of course, a crucial part of a test! But if you don’t consider production, you won’t be scalable. And no company is happy with insufficient production capacity.”
Bondus steps in with the processes that follow the disease detection part. “With technology and advice. How do you make the right choices in your design process to ensure that you can produce millions of tests later?”
Niche market
The world of medical self-testing is a niche market, and a difficult one to win over. “You would expect our customers to want to make as few changes as possible, because they are already using reliable methods. In general, it is difficult to get the medical industry to innovate. That’s why I’m so surprised at how open our customers are to new technologies. At the end of the day, it makes sense: people in this part of the market are working on a new generation of products. They are used to trying new things, and Bondus’ technology is part of that.”
Start-up phase
Bondus was founded in 2020. “Back then, it was all about tinkering and experimenting with materials. Later, we moved to ZWINC, the start-up incubator in Zwolle. You can tell when your company is getting to a more serious point, and that’s when we decided to work on Bonus full-time. It was an exciting step, but ultimately the right one: suddenly your mind is free to concentrate on your business.”
Now it’s time for Bondus to grow. “The first thing on the agenda is to expand our team. You simply achieve more with a larger group of people. And that’s what we need. Of course, that requires money, so we went looking for investors. This search led us to the Business Angels Network Nijmegen (BANN) and Briskr.”
In the run-up to BANN, Bas-Jan attended a pitch training. “It helped a lot, because it makes you focus on what you do as a company. It also helped us with the valuation of our company. That’s how we made our plans for next year.” This ties in with a big dream for Bondus. “When you buy a laptop, it almost always has an Intel Inside sticker. That’s what we want. When you buy a medical self-test, we want it to say ‘Bondus Inside’. That’s our goal!”
