LeapSprong Amsterdam

Accelerating the energy transition works best when innovative entrepreneurs collaborate with companies and governments. Do you, as a European start-up or scale-up, have an innovation that can accelerate the transition in the Port of Amsterdam and/or the broader Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA)? Then quickly read more about LeapSprong Amsterdam, the innovation program for entrepreneurs who are working on a sustainable and circular energy system in the North Sea Canal area.

LeapSprong Amsterdam is an open innovation program that helps you as an innovative start-up or scale-up to translate your ambitions into actions and challenges into opportunities, so that you can ultimately enter the market faster with a solution. The aim of the organizers of the program (Municipality of Amsterdam, Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA) and Rockstart) is to make the broader Amsterdam region climate-neutral and circular as quickly as possible through collaborations between entrepreneurs, companies and governments.

What does it bring you?
Through LeapSprong Amsterdam you get access to:
  • the market: meet potential partners in the region
  • facilities: discover the testing and membership options at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, where more than 25 startups, companies and research institutes work together to accelerate the energy transition.
  • Financing: Support fundraising and get in touch with relevant investors.
  • Expertise: Get in touch with LeapSprong partners such as strategic industry experts who can support you during and after the program.
  • network: join the LeapSprong network – including the programme partners and therefore also ROM InWest – as a sparring partner and share your own knowledge and network with other startups.

 

Practical information - edition 25/26
  • 3/6 /25 - Start of registration
  • 8/6/25 - Registration deadline
  • 1-9/9/25 - Selection interviews Top 15
  • 6/10/25 - Announcement of Top 8
  • 24/11/25 - Kick-off programme
  • 16/4/26 - Demo day

LeapSprong Amsterdam completed the successful first edition in 2024, read the news here report-out.

More info

Participation in LeapSprong Amsterdam is free: we only ask for your time, dedication and passion during the program. Are you curious? Contact Robin van Beijnum for more information or visit the website From LeapSprong.

Robin van Beijnum
Business Developer Life Sciences & Health

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