Breaking Barriers |
Instruments |
Sept. 23, 2025
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As an AI startup, your goals are to break through, scale up, and make an impact. Building a groundbreaking company presents numerous challenges. How do you attract follow-on funding to accelerate your growth? How do you find and retain top talent to realize your ambitions? And how do you expand into new and international markets?
The AiNed Breaking Barriers program is designed to transform these challenges into opportunities. Through a tailored approach, we support you in accelerating your growth journey. Our mission? To strengthen the Dutch AI ecosystem by helping promising Dutch startups become successful international players. This is achieved in collaboration with a network of valuable partners.
1. Grow with focus
Achieve tangible growth results in just 9 months that will take your AI startup to the next level. Together, we'll define growth objectives that match your company’s ambitions. These are translated into concrete outcomes that are valuable, urgent, measurable, and achievable. You'll gain access to the tools and a strong network you need to make it happen.
2. Tailored guidance
No standard approach, but tailored support. Through an in-depth AI company scan, we'll help identify your biggest growth opportunities and challenges. This could include access to capital, talent, data or infrastructure. We also offer support on technological, or financial matters. Breaking Barriers offers targeted support and guidance in the areas that make the difference in scaling up.
3. A network that works
Benefit from the valuable (inter)national connections the program offers. Gain access to investors, mentors, companies, governments, and new markets. We'll connect you with the right people and resources for one-on-one guidance and strategic partnerships that help accelerate your growth goals.
We are looking for startups that are not only innovative, but also committed to growing within, and beyond, the Dutch AI ecosystem.
You may be eligible to participate if you are:
Increase the impact of your AI startup and break through barriers with our tailored support in the growth areas below:
It starts with your application, just fill out this form. After an initial evaluation, we will schedule an intake meeting and conduct an AI company scan to understand your startup's unique needs and potential.
Based on this scan, we will:
If both sides see strong potential in the collaboration, we move forward by:
Over the course of nine months, we will work closely with you to break through barriers and maximize your growth potential.
More information on how we select startups and partners for Breaking Barriers, click here.
The Breaking Barriers program has officially launched. If you are an AI startup ready to accelerate your growth, this is your moment.
Any questions? Our program team is here to help you:
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