Record investments don’t tell the whole story

5 augustus 2026

On Thursday, July 23, our CEO Bastiaan de Roo was a guest on New Business Radio to discuss the record investments the Netherlands is attracting for startups. Because record investments don’t tell the whole story. High investment figures often paint a distorted picture when the capital is concentrated among just a small group of the “happy few.”

At PLNT, we take a deliberately different approach. We don’t invest with hard cash, but rather with free programs through which we guide startups toward internationally scalable success.

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