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The Gulliver Online Competition 2020 – Prepped and Ready

While we cannot have our regular competition right now, we are excited to offer the opportunity to take part in our online competition. See it as an exercise towards the competition in August. We give away a prize of your choice up to €350,- to help you in these time of crisis? For instance, do […]

Stories about Image Building

Perfect! You have a wonderful idea for a startup. Time to conquer the world. But your product is not the only thing that sells. What is the identity of your product which lures people in? What do you want your image to be? Thursday March 12 we welcome two guest speakers who will tell you

Student Start-up Competitions: meet PHIA and Gulliver

Wondering whether, why and how you should join start-up competitions? Tuesday December 3rd, student start-up competitions PHIA (Philips Innovation Award) and Gulliver, along with ELF (the Enterprise Leiden Fund) will be introducing themselves through ex-participants that got a big boost by receiving both funding, exposure and loads of feedback by ‘joining the circus’. Those who did will tell Tensail, Bonnie,

Stories about Funding

On September 26th we will be hosting a new ‘stories about’ edition. Experienced entrepreneurs will discuss how they got the appropriate funding for their ideas, how they survived the valley of death, and how they managed to set the proper timelines. We will also invite the other side of the table, and let investors discuss

Finalist onescnd

2019 Finalist: Onescnd

Lastly, we sat down with Niels Uiterdijk and Dion Verhoog, the team driving change with Onescnd, to understand more about their mission and ambition for their company: Onescnd is a calling system for restaurants. How it works is, there is a button you can press which sends a signal to the waiter/waitresses’ smart watch, and

Finalist Bonnie

2019 Finalist: Bonnie

Next, we sat down with Arian Khoshchin, the brains behind Bonnie, and discovered a bit more about what he is looking to make a reality: Bonnie is a new technical solution that aims to get rid of paper receipts. I came back from a business travel from the US and I probably had around 40

ShareDnD finalist Gulliver

2019 Finalist: ShareDnD

Every year, Gulliver hosts a competition for student entrepreneurial ventures with the aim to support them financially with a 10,000 euro cash prize.  As part of the preparation for the final on 20th of June, we sat down in a series of interviews to understand a bit more about each of our three finalists, ShareDnD,

pitch training by Jonathon Talbott

The Gulliver competition so far

Last month, the Gulliver competition 2019 began in full swing! A total of 21 teams with a broad range of ideas handed in their one-pagers. The teams have been working on their business plans and attended a pitch training by Jonathon Talbott to prepare for the semi final. On may 23th the semi-finals will take

Sign up for our Competition’s Grande Finale 2019

Gulliver was founded to help students and adolescents kickstart their venture. One of the things we do is our competition. On June 20th the final contestants will pitch their ideas in front of an objective jury. Together with the participants and experienced entrepreneurs we will make sure it is going to be an informative and

Seranovo founders acquiring an investment from Uniiq

Past Gulliver Winner Sera Novo acquires new funding

Sera Novo, one of our previous competition winners is really working hard on their new platform of medicine formulation. They recently acquired a €300.000 investment from UNIIQ. Sera Novo’s technology enables a new way of dissolving medicines and thereby enhances the chance of positive effect to the patient. Medicines that did not have a positive

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