<div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Today we are honored to announce that we have been invited at the Court Grand Ducal in view of a High Patronage from the Hereditary Grand Duke, Prince Guillaume. </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">We are very thankful for this rare privilege that can only strengthen our action to promote the development of Luxembourg's ecosystem! </span>
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Today we are honored to announce that we have been invited at the Court Grand Ducal in view of a High Patronage from the Hereditary Grand Duke, Prince Guillaume. <br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />We are very thankful for this rare privilege that can only strengthen our action to promote the development of Luxembourg's ecosystem! <br />
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https://monarchie.lu/fr/actualites/audience-luxembourg-startups-association <br />
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Audience at the Court Grand Ducal 

<div>Together with <strong>UEL</strong>, Luxembourg Employers' Association (Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises), we are one step closer towards our <strong>Manifesto 2023:</strong><br /><br /><div><em><strong>Implementing tax benefits to encourage private investments in startups. </strong></em><br /><br /></div>
<div>A big thank you to <strong>Jean-Paul Olinger </strong>(Director at UEL), <strong>Flora Castellani</strong> &amp; <strong>Marie Vintrou</strong> for your time and support! </div>
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Together with UEL, Luxembourg Employers' Association (Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises), we are one step closer towards our Manifesto 2023:<br /><br />Implementing tax benefits to encourage private investments in startups. <br /><br /><br />
A big thank you to Jean-Paul Olinger (Director at UEL), Flora Castellani &amp; Marie Vintrou for your time and support! <br />
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UEL (Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises) supporting us! 

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proud to share that we've met Yuriko Backes, </span><span style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">the Minister of Finance, </span><span style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">for some fruitful discussions! </span></p>
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On our way to encourage investments in founders, bright minds &amp; innovators, </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">we've had great exchanges on </span><span style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">the start-up ecosystem &amp; its priorities. </span><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you for supporting the promotion &amp; development of our startup association. </span></div><div> </div></div>


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Proud to share that we've met Yuriko Backes, the Minister of Finance, for some fruitful discussions! <br />
On our way to encourage investments in founders, bright minds &amp; innovators, we've had great exchanges on the start-up ecosystem &amp; its priorities. Thank you for supporting the promotion &amp; development of our startup association.  <br />


Meet-up with the Minister of Finance 

<div>Happy to announce today's encounter with Franz Fayot, Luxembourg's Ministry of Economy. <div>On the pursuit to make Luxembourg a start-up friendly location that rewards innovation and digital entrepreneurs!</div></div>


Happy to announce today's encounter with Franz Fayot, Luxembourg's Ministry of Economy. On the pursuit to make Luxembourg a start-up friendly location that rewards innovation and digital entrepreneurs!<br />


Meeting with the Ministry of Economy 

<div>It took a bit longer than expected ( Luxembourgish bureaucracy, right ? ;) ... but all the paperwork is done and we are finally incorporated and ready to start the "boosters" !<br />Now, the "real work" can start, stay tuned ...<br /><br /></div>


It took a bit longer than expected ( Luxembourgish bureaucracy, right ? ;) ... but all the paperwork is done and we are finally incorporated and ready to start the "boosters" !<br />Now, the "real work" can start, stay tuned ...<br /><br /><br />


We are incorporated !

<div>Today, we had the pleasure to meet Prime Minister Xavier Bettel <span>to submit and discuss initiatives to help startups grow.</span><div><span>Being supported at the highest level of government is essential and especially appreciated! </span></div><div><span>We're looking forward to more opportunities to bring the voice of startups to the government. </span></div><div> </div></div>


Today, we had the pleasure to meet Prime Minister Xavier Bettel to submit and discuss initiatives to help startups grow.Being supported at the highest level of government is essential and especially appreciated! We're looking forward to more opportunities to bring the voice of startups to the government.  <br />


Startups.lu meets Prime Minister Xavier Bettel 

<div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">“At the heart of our commitment are initiatives helping to fund a startup, promote female empowerment and develop entrepreneurial education” </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Meet the Board Members: </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAACQ5Y8BGbOu4GFhN4l1PbxHYranf5Uq6_U">Christophe Folschette</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, co-founder of Talkwalker;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAq7NIB5TBCzYQYevHg9JcgEAK_D0tIxjE">Eric Busch</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, founder </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="http://nexten.io/">nexten.io</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABUGEAB8LK97zk_lf2nHY-tRWpUwlFZ4VQ">Gaelle Haag</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, co-founder inclusive investment firm Startalers;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAALFLokB4E4ct232NwyxzmJwAxak2tHfLm4">Genna Elvin</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, co-founder small data firm Tada Web;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABh5u8cBM1wPdaMz8Sr5qDu9V6WNeubH23Y">Ilana Devillers</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, founder Food4All, a platform combating food waste;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAADYLo0BdRRZfSlxu7a6VszTyy4jOfU-Acc">Marc Oswald</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, co-founder Open Assessment Technologies (OAT);</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABudOXgB0SfesHlE5Ir6EiTRU_qim_Y94Os">Jacques Lorang</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, founder Lux Caddy, online grocery shopping platform;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABGaf-AB7vVetW8KHsUzCZaLqnTKh-EsUKc">Tom Michels</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, co-founder Salonkee, a beauty treatment booking platform;</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAf8NUB1eWKG42-6jtNgsMh6y2ohFuo_6k">Xavier Buck</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, founder Namespace and Euro DNS.</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">- </span><a style="border:;font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAFAsoBRPYH6UecWyoOQ_iMA9Y9FBLGT3w">Patrick Kersten</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, founder Doctena and atHomeGroup</span><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Read the full article</span></div><div>https://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/move-fast-build-things-startups-lu-goes-live/</div></div>


“At the heart of our commitment are initiatives helping to fund a startup, promote female empowerment and develop entrepreneurial education” <br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />Meet the Board Members: <br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Christophe Folschette, co-founder of Talkwalker;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Eric Busch, founder nexten.io;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Gaelle Haag, co-founder inclusive investment firm Startalers;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Genna Elvin, co-founder small data firm Tada Web;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Ilana Devillers, founder Food4All, a platform combating food waste;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Marc Oswald, co-founder Open Assessment Technologies (OAT);<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Jacques Lorang, founder Lux Caddy, online grocery shopping platform;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Tom Michels, co-founder Salonkee, a beauty treatment booking platform;<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Xavier Buck, founder Namespace and Euro DNS.<br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,.9);font-family:'-apple-system', 'system-ui', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />- Patrick Kersten, founder Doctena and atHomeGroup Read the full articlehttps://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/move-fast-build-things-startups-lu-goes-live/<br />


“Move Fast & Build Things” Startups.lu Goes Live

<p class="article-introduction" style="border:0px;font-size:1.25rem;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 32px;padding:0px;font-family:IBMPlex, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.35;color:#333333;">La soirée de lancement de Startups.lu a eu lieu le lundi 18 juillet à la House of Startups.</p><div class="article-content" style="font-size:16px;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;color:#333333;font-family:Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;">
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La soirée de lancement de Startups.lu a eu lieu le lundi 18 juillet à la House of Startups.<br />
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Être la voix des start-up est bien l’ambition de Startups.lu, la vitrine de la Luxembourg Startups Association , la nouvelle fédération les réunissant. Son lancement a eu lieu ce lundi 18 juillet en présence de Franz Fayot(LSAP), ministre de l’Économie, et, évidemment, de nombreux acteurs en vue du secteur.<br />
Découvrez la gallerie Photo<br />
https://paperjam.lu/article/startups-lu-a-pris-son-envol <br />
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Startups.lu a pris son envol

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<h2>Startup founders have a new platform to get their voices heard and share knowhow. Ahead of the platform launch on 18 July, chairman of <a href="http://startups.lu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Startups.lu</a> Patrick Kersten explained the project.</h2>
<h3>Patrick, tell us how did the Luxembourg Startups Association came about?</h3>
<p>There is a growing community of startups in Luxembourg, including several generations now of entrepreneurs. And there’s a huge variety of players and initiatives in Luxembourg, but all with their different angles mostly coming from the public sector. And startuppers are not being really represented in existing federations, which are either industrial or commercial, but not really covering all the aspects of what startups can be.</p>
<h3>How do you define startup and how many entrepreneurs and startups are we talking about here?</h3>
<p>If you look at Wikipedia, it will tell you that it is an innovative or unproven business model. So it’s not a one-man show and it’s meant to become something bigger. There’s been a lot of talk about having 600 startups in Luxembourg. If there’s 600 projects, there’s probably 1,200 or 1,800 founders. And if you add to that all the people that work for these companies – we did this survey, most had between five and 10 employees – that’s already quite a few people.</p>
<h3>The founding board surveyed some potential members back in the spring. What were your findings?</h3>
<p>If you look at the priorities that they would see for a collective that’s pretty interesting: they mentioned knowledge sharing, business synergies and lobbying. This really brought us to the conclusion that first, there is a need, and second, the people around the table all want to give back something to the ecosystem. So they all say that we’re the ecosystem that Luxembourg has helped them build their business or is currently helping them and they want to give something back to help the community grow further. I think as a collective of founders we can definitely assist some of the public initiatives like <a href="https://www.startupluxembourg.com/about-startup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Startup Luxembourg</a>, which is meant to promote the startups and help them go international. I think 99% of Luxembourg startups plan to go international because the market here is just too small to grow a big team.</p>
<p>There’s actually many subjects where you can work together on this sharing of knowledge. There’s loads of people who are not running a startup themselves, who are interested in giving input and helping the startups. It could be lawyers, it could be IT people, it could be marketing people. If you look at these incubators when they offer training, it’s not always from startups to startups. There’s a lot of people that want to help and have a positive contribution to the ecosystem. And we think that we can play a pivotal role on top of all of these initiatives from the chamber of commerce, the House of Startups and Luxinnovation, business angels etc.</p>
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<p>“Next year we will create an ASBL with articles and governance rules, which then gives them probably the chance to vote on certain board members and candidates.”</p>
Patrick Kersten, Chairman of the Board of Startups.lu</blockquote>
<h3>How will you finance the activities of startups.lu?</h3>
<p>There’s going to be a fee for the startups to join us which of course is going to be more symbolic for the small ones, and bigger for more fortunate companies. It won’t be enough to execute the programme we want to present. We’re going to seek some support from the ecosystem and people close to the ecosystem. Technoport and LHoFT have supporting partners and we intend to speak to some of them to see if they can assist us so that the board and people working as volunteers for the association can really spend their time on useful things for the ecosystem.</p>
<h3>The board is composed of 10 people, with yourself appointed unanimously as chairman for the first year. How diverse is the board currently?</h3>
<p>I have some serious experience in the team and diversity in the sense that we tried as much as we can to get gender equality. The average is 15-16% of female founders in startups and we are at 30%, which is a good start. It’s not easy, if you have a limited base of female founders. But we’re very happy to have them on board today. It’s very important for us to be somewhat representative.</p>
<p>Next year we will create an ASBL with articles and governance rules, which then gives them probably the chance to vote on certain board members and candidates. </p>
<h3>What will be the platform’s priorities starting out?</h3>
<p>We really want to develop this ecosystem and make it easier for startups. It’s not about complaining or having demands. Although there are certain points which have been dragging on for ages and which definitely are also part of the agenda of our international colleagues, which have also not been solved here.</p>
<p>What we intend to do this year is work very quickly on a toolkit because that’s something which will be of use for the startups. So if people pay a membership they should have something immediately out of it. Something really useful. The first year is going to be a build up where we reach out to the ecosystem, and the players where we listen to what their expectations are. We have done a first survey but we definitely need to do more amongst members. We have the ambition to be really representative, which means to have 25 or 30% of all startups becoming a member. So we’re targeting 150 to 200 members. And, we really want to make sure that it’s useful for them, that they not only appreciate the fact that it does exist, they have some really useful tools and advantages. </p>
<p>Of course we will need to build our website, our presence, and create some first workshops to help on the networking. We really want to be complimentary, so we’re really going to stay away from things already happening. </p>
<h3>How do you see it evolving over the long term?</h3>
<p>Startups.lu is meant to be innovative and to grow. We haven’t set out the size. I think we probably don’t need to have 20 guys, but we may end up having a full-time person very quickly.</p>
<h3>As a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience working in Luxembourg and Europe, why do you think now is the right time for a platform like this?</h3>
<p>In one of the latest speeches I gave, someone asked me to go back the last 20 years. I did a lot of research and actually in 1996 when we first got started, there were 70 million people worldwide, having access to the internet. We’re now at 4 billion, which amazes me. It also amazes me how time flies and how this ecosystem can reinvent itself and come up with new technologies and it never ends. There are all these new generations coming and mastering all news tools: AI, machine learning and blockchain etc. It’s just new territory. I think that’s part of the passion that we all have. For all the founders there is just one possible outcome which is success. Recently, I heard a VC comment about the Luxembourg ecosystem that there’s fewer moonshots in Luxembourg. So it’s really a good ecosystem to invest in because people are stable, they have their feet on the ground, and they really want to have sustainable projects.</p>
<p>Founders are encouraged to attend the official launch of Startups.lu on 18 July at 18:00 at the House of Startups.</p>
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Startup founders have a new platform to get their voices heard and share knowhow. Ahead of the platform launch on 18 July, chairman of Startups.lu Patrick Kersten explained the project.<br />
Patrick, tell us how did the Luxembourg Startups Association came about?<br />
There is a growing community of startups in Luxembourg, including several generations now of entrepreneurs. And there’s a huge variety of players and initiatives in Luxembourg, but all with their different angles mostly coming from the public sector. And startuppers are not being really represented in existing federations, which are either industrial or commercial, but not really covering all the aspects of what startups can be.<br />
How do you define startup and how many entrepreneurs and startups are we talking about here?<br />
If you look at Wikipedia, it will tell you that it is an innovative or unproven business model. So it’s not a one-man show and it’s meant to become something bigger. There’s been a lot of talk about having 600 startups in Luxembourg. If there’s 600 projects, there’s probably 1,200 or 1,800 founders. And if you add to that all the people that work for these companies – we did this survey, most had between five and 10 employees – that’s already quite a few people.<br />
The founding board surveyed some potential members back in the spring. What were your findings?<br />
If you look at the priorities that they would see for a collective that’s pretty interesting: they mentioned knowledge sharing, business synergies and lobbying. This really brought us to the conclusion that first, there is a need, and second, the people around the table all want to give back something to the ecosystem. So they all say that we’re the ecosystem that Luxembourg has helped them build their business or is currently helping them and they want to give something back to help the community grow further. I think as a collective of founders we can definitely assist some of the public initiatives like Startup Luxembourg, which is meant to promote the startups and help them go international. I think 99% of Luxembourg startups plan to go international because the market here is just too small to grow a big team.<br />
There’s actually many subjects where you can work together on this sharing of knowledge. There’s loads of people who are not running a startup themselves, who are interested in giving input and helping the startups. It could be lawyers, it could be IT people, it could be marketing people. If you look at these incubators when they offer training, it’s not always from startups to startups. There’s a lot of people that want to help and have a positive contribution to the ecosystem. And we think that we can play a pivotal role on top of all of these initiatives from the chamber of commerce, the House of Startups and Luxinnovation, business angels etc.<br />
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“Next year we will create an ASBL with articles and governance rules, which then gives them probably the chance to vote on certain board members and candidates.”<br />
Patrick Kersten, Chairman of the Board of Startups.lu<br />
How will you finance the activities of startups.lu?<br />
There’s going to be a fee for the startups to join us which of course is going to be more symbolic for the small ones, and bigger for more fortunate companies. It won’t be enough to execute the programme we want to present. We’re going to seek some support from the ecosystem and people close to the ecosystem. Technoport and LHoFT have supporting partners and we intend to speak to some of them to see if they can assist us so that the board and people working as volunteers for the association can really spend their time on useful things for the ecosystem.<br />
The board is composed of 10 people, with yourself appointed unanimously as chairman for the first year. How diverse is the board currently?<br />
I have some serious experience in the team and diversity in the sense that we tried as much as we can to get gender equality. The average is 15-16% of female founders in startups and we are at 30%, which is a good start. It’s not easy, if you have a limited base of female founders. But we’re very happy to have them on board today. It’s very important for us to be somewhat representative.<br />
Next year we will create an ASBL with articles and governance rules, which then gives them probably the chance to vote on certain board members and candidates. <br />
What will be the platform’s priorities starting out?<br />
We really want to develop this ecosystem and make it easier for startups. It’s not about complaining or having demands. Although there are certain points which have been dragging on for ages and which definitely are also part of the agenda of our international colleagues, which have also not been solved here.<br />
What we intend to do this year is work very quickly on a toolkit because that’s something which will be of use for the startups. So if people pay a membership they should have something immediately out of it. Something really useful. The first year is going to be a build up where we reach out to the ecosystem, and the players where we listen to what their expectations are. We have done a first survey but we definitely need to do more amongst members. We have the ambition to be really representative, which means to have 25 or 30% of all startups becoming a member. So we’re targeting 150 to 200 members. And, we really want to make sure that it’s useful for them, that they not only appreciate the fact that it does exist, they have some really useful tools and advantages. <br />
Of course we will need to build our website, our presence, and create some first workshops to help on the networking. We really want to be complimentary, so we’re really going to stay away from things already happening. <br />
How do you see it evolving over the long term?<br />
Startups.lu is meant to be innovative and to grow. We haven’t set out the size. I think we probably don’t need to have 20 guys, but we may end up having a full-time person very quickly.<br />
As a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience working in Luxembourg and Europe, why do you think now is the right time for a platform like this?<br />
In one of the latest speeches I gave, someone asked me to go back the last 20 years. I did a lot of research and actually in 1996 when we first got started, there were 70 million people worldwide, having access to the internet. We’re now at 4 billion, which amazes me. It also amazes me how time flies and how this ecosystem can reinvent itself and come up with new technologies and it never ends. There are all these new generations coming and mastering all news tools: AI, machine learning and blockchain etc. It’s just new territory. I think that’s part of the passion that we all have. For all the founders there is just one possible outcome which is success. Recently, I heard a VC comment about the Luxembourg ecosystem that there’s fewer moonshots in Luxembourg. So it’s really a good ecosystem to invest in because people are stable, they have their feet on the ground, and they really want to have sustainable projects.<br />
Founders are encouraged to attend the official launch of Startups.lu on 18 July at 18:00 at the House of Startups.<br />
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Startups.lu: “We Want To Develop This Ecosystem And Make It Easier For Startups”

<p><strong>Startups.lu fixe rendez-vous à l’écosystème du Luxembourg le lundi 18 juillet pour son événement de lancement à la… House of Startups. Avec présences ministérielles.</strong><br /><br />Figure de la scène entrepreneuriale et cofondateur de start-up devenues des marques bien connues (Luxjob, AtHome, Doctena),<a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/0562579886/patrick-kersten">Patrick Kersten</a> a récemment annoncé sur la scène de l’ICT Spring le lancement d’une fédération des start-up pour rendre à la communauté locale ce qu’elle a pu lui apporter à lui ainsi qu’à d’autres.</p><p>La date du décollage de cette initiative est désormais connue: le 18 juillet. Son nom l’est également: la <a href="https://startupslu-26038465.hubspotpagebuilder.eu/home">Startups.lu</a> .</p><p>À noter qu’une initiative similaire avait été lancée par Jérôme Grandidier , en février 2019, avec <a href="https://paperjam.lu/article/news-flsu-la-future-voix-des-start">la création de la Fédération luxembourgeoise des startups (FLSU)</a> . Mais avec la disparition malheureuse de ce multientrepreneur, la FLSU n’a pas réussi l’envol escompté.</p><p>Pour en revenir à cette nouvelle fédération, pour celui qui est désormais à la tête de <a href="https://paperjam.lu/article/patrick-kersten-prend-commande">Vesperia</a>  ou encore de <a href="https://paperjam.lu/article/medination-nouveau-pari-patric">MediNation</a> , l’idée est de fédérer et de connecter toutes les start-up du pays, des «early stage» à celles reconnues en dehors de nos frontières. Sans oublier tous les acteurs qui peuvent intervenir dans leur phase de lancement et de croissance.</p><p>Comme le résume le site internet de l’association, elle doit permettre l’émergence de champions digitaux et supporter les entrepreneurs.</p><p>Xavier Bettel et Franz Fayot annoncés</p><p>Startups.lu, plus officiellement dénommée Luxembourg Startups Association, veut également capitaliser sur l’expérience de fondateurs de start-up pour faire rayonner l’écosystème et de nouvelles aventures prometteuses.</p><p>Outre Patrick Kersten qui sera amené à en prendre la présidence le 18 juillet, on retrouve ainsi des visages de l’entrepreneuriat dans l’équipe fondatrice de l’association:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophefolschette/">Christophe Folschette</a>, cofondateur de Talkwalker,</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/0568359324/eric-busch">Eric Busch</a> , fondateur de Nexten.io;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/article/gaelle-haag-ceo-startalers-fac">Gaelle Haag</a> , fondatrice de StarTalers;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/01609794783/genna-elvin">Genna Elvin</a> , cofondatrice de TadaWeb;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/01703040632/ilana-devillers">Ilana Devillers</a> , cofondatrice de Food4All;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/organisation/01290963741/lorang-jacques">Jacques Lorang</a> , cofondateur de Luxcaddy;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/organisation/01263853896/oswald-marc">Marc Oswald</a> , cofondateur de OAT;</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/01692494618/tom-michels">Tom Michels</a> , cofondateur de Salonkee,</p><p><a href="https://paperjam.lu/guide/biography/0587068107/xavier-buck">Xavier Buck</a> , fondateur de Namespace.</p><p>Un panel qui reflète la variété de parcours et de secteurs qui peuvent se retrouver dans la nouvelle association dont le premier objectif est de recueillir le maximum de membres pour peser, car le lobbying fera également partie des missions de Startups.lu.</p><p>Nul doute que l’événement de lancement permettra de partager quelques messages devant la communauté ainsi que des décideurs politiques. Le Premier ministre et ministre de la Digitalisation, Xavier Bettel (DP), ainsi que le ministre de l’Économie, Franz Fayot (LSAP), sont d’ores et déjà annoncés.</p>


Startups.lu fixe rendez-vous à l’écosystème du Luxembourg le lundi 18 juillet pour son événement de lancement à la… House of Startups. Avec présences ministérielles.<br /><br />Figure de la scène entrepreneuriale et cofondateur de start-up devenues des marques bien connues (Luxjob, AtHome, Doctena),Patrick Kersten a récemment annoncé sur la scène de l’ICT Spring le lancement d’une fédération des start-up pour rendre à la communauté locale ce qu’elle a pu lui apporter à lui ainsi qu’à d’autres.La date du décollage de cette initiative est désormais connue: le 18 juillet. Son nom l’est également: la Startups.lu .À noter qu’une initiative similaire avait été lancée par Jérôme Grandidier , en février 2019, avec la création de la Fédération luxembourgeoise des startups (FLSU) . Mais avec la disparition malheureuse de ce multientrepreneur, la FLSU n’a pas réussi l’envol escompté.Pour en revenir à cette nouvelle fédération, pour celui qui est désormais à la tête de Vesperia  ou encore de MediNation , l’idée est de fédérer et de connecter toutes les start-up du pays, des «early stage» à celles reconnues en dehors de nos frontières. Sans oublier tous les acteurs qui peuvent intervenir dans leur phase de lancement et de croissance.Comme le résume le site internet de l’association, elle doit permettre l’émergence de champions digitaux et supporter les entrepreneurs.Xavier Bettel et Franz Fayot annoncésStartups.lu, plus officiellement dénommée Luxembourg Startups Association, veut également capitaliser sur l’expérience de fondateurs de start-up pour faire rayonner l’écosystème et de nouvelles aventures prometteuses.Outre Patrick Kersten qui sera amené à en prendre la présidence le 18 juillet, on retrouve ainsi des visages de l’entrepreneuriat dans l’équipe fondatrice de l’association:Christophe Folschette, cofondateur de Talkwalker,Eric Busch , fondateur de Nexten.io;Gaelle Haag , fondatrice de StarTalers;Genna Elvin , cofondatrice de TadaWeb;Ilana Devillers , cofondatrice de Food4All;Jacques Lorang , cofondateur de Luxcaddy;Marc Oswald , cofondateur de OAT;Tom Michels , cofondateur de Salonkee,Xavier Buck , fondateur de Namespace.Un panel qui reflète la variété de parcours et de secteurs qui peuvent se retrouver dans la nouvelle association dont le premier objectif est de recueillir le maximum de membres pour peser, car le lobbying fera également partie des missions de Startups.lu.Nul doute que l’événement de lancement permettra de partager quelques messages devant la communauté ainsi que des décideurs politiques. Le Premier ministre et ministre de la Digitalisation, Xavier Bettel (DP), ainsi que le ministre de l’Économie, Franz Fayot (LSAP), sont d’ores et déjà annoncés.<br />


La nouvelle voix des start-up décollera le 18 juillet

<p>1 July 2022 - Fit4Start graduation ceremony organised by Luxinnovation at the ICT Spring.</p><p>Patrick Kersten announces the upcoming launch of the Luxembourg Startups Association at the closing speech of the graduation ceremony.</p>


1 July 2022 - Fit4Start graduation ceremony organised by Luxinnovation at the ICT Spring.Patrick Kersten announces the upcoming launch of the Luxembourg Startups Association at the closing speech of the graduation ceremony.<br />


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