{"id":2623,"date":"2021-11-02T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rominwest.nl\/inspiratie\/eindrapport-col-e-300-miljoen-hield-innovatieve-bedrijfsleven-overeind\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:18:56","slug":"final-report-col-e-300-million-kept-innovative-business-community-afloat","status":"publish","type":"inspiratie","link":"https:\/\/rominwest.nl\/en\/nieuws\/eindrapport-col-e-300-miljoen-hield-innovatieve-bedrijfsleven-overeind\/","title":{"rendered":"Final report COL: \u20ac300 million kept businesses afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most awards in Life Sciences, Cleantech and Hightech sectors<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The COL has mainly supported innovative businesses in the Netherlands<\/a>: the Life Sciences (56%), Cleantech & Energy (54%) and Hightech (53%) sectors had the highest award percentages. These are sectors with a high risk profile and a large capital requirement. The COL was an emergency loan for companies for which other financial support measures were not appropriate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Most often, companies applied for a loan between \u20ac50,000 and \u20ac250,000. 58% of the applicants were startups, 22% were scale-ups.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Click on the image above to read the COL final report with relevant facts and figures and entrepreneurial stories.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
High-risk sectors still struggling to attract financing<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe have not yet started repaying our COL loan,\u201d says Erdem Ay, CEO of Fited. Fited uses smartphone photos to 3D print scoliosis braces. \u201cWe are now looking for additional financing so that we can continue our clinical work.\u201d Rinke Zonneveld (chairman ROM-Nederland & director InnovationQuarter) and Maurice van Tilburg (Managing Director Techleap.nl) indicate that they will continue to monitor the companies closely. \u201cOur work does not stop here. We are monitoring whether the companies that have received a COL are also successful in the follow-up phase. A large part of the market is reopening, but high-risk sectors with a large capital requirement \u2013 important for our economy \u2013 still have great difficulty attracting financing.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Companies in corona are running out of money four times as fast<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A technology that dramatically increases the performance of heat pumps (Blue Heart Energy), a highly innovative and affordable support sole (T-soles) and safe bed tents for severely disabled children (CloudCuddle); these are just a few of the companies that survived the corona crisis thanks to the COL loan. The runway for investments became 4 times shorter for companies during the corona period; they therefore ran out of money 4 times as quickly. For relatively young companies with little fat on their bones anyway, this poses a direct problem. After research by Techleap.nl among hundreds of startups into the financial situation as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate withdrew \u20ac300 million in various tranches from April 2020 to retain startups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs for the Dutch economy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cInnovation is the backbone of our future earning capacity,\u201d says Minister Stef Blok of Economic Affairs and Climate. \u201cThe corona outbreak, a pandemic of unprecedented proportions, was an acute threat to almost all entrepreneurs. We were able to help many of them with the various support schemes. For start-ups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs, the bridging loan offered a solution. Thanks to the COL, we were able to retain almost 1,000 companies for the Netherlands, all with great potential because they play or will play a role in, for example, the energy transition, digitalisation or sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Most requests from North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The regions of North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant received the most applicants. The most frequently awarded applications were from the ROMs Impuls Zeeland and Horizon Flevoland. In all regions, less than half of the awarded applications consisted of portfolio companies of the ROMs, with LIOF and NOM having relatively the most portfolio companies a COL awarded and Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland and InnovationQuarter awarded the least.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It proved to be a necessary instrument to retain innovative businesses in the Netherlands during the corona crisis: in 6 weeks, the Regional Development Companies (ROMs), together with Techleap.nl and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, set up a structure to implement the Corona Bridging Loan (COL) for innovative startups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs. The ROMs assessed 2,276 loan applications with a total requested capital of \u20ac840 million. Of these, 974 applications were approved, worth almost \u20ac300 million. 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