Leaders In Cleantech #147 Joost Kruytzer – Big Circle Ventures
What’s it all about? Building cleantech start-ups, at scale. It can be confusing, the world of Incubators, accelerators and venture builders, also known as start-up studios. Who does what, how and why? In this episode we clarify some of those things, but discuss so much more about the why and how of new cleantech venture builder Big Circle Ventures, with founder CEO Joost Kruytzer. Joost is a very experienced venture builder, recently moving from healthtech to cleantech following a passion to address some of our biggest challenges. I hope you enjoy the episode. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:46 Understanding Venture Building 02:13 The Genesis of Big Circle Ventures 03:57 Scaling Startups: The Big Circle Approach 05:35 Clarifying Venture Builders vs. Accelerators and Incubators 07:24 The Journey from IP to Startup 13:59 The Importance of Culture in Startups 18:28 Ambitions and Future Plans for Big Circle Ventures 24:29 Challenges and Rewards in Venture Building 32:52 Focus Areas and Opportunities in Climate Tech 35:21 Call to Action: Collaborate with Big Circle Ventures 39:56 Conclusion and Final Thoughts About Joost Kruytzer: Theoretical physicist turned management consultant turned deeptech venture builder. Driven by positive impact. Built up NLC as its COO, to become Europe’s largest healthtech venture builder, creating over 100 ventures along the way. Earlier this year he founded BigCircle Ventures, applying a similar model to tackle the world’s climate and circularity challenges About BigCircle Ventures: BigCircle Ventures scouts promising deeptech and turns this into successful startups that tackle the world's climate and circularity challenges. BigCircle Ventures is set up to become the world’s largest greentech venture builder. We bring a unique flow of early stage innovations to the market, to boost the world’s journey towards net zero and circularity. The world needs greentech, but promising inventions often stay untouched on a shelf, hidden in a university, research institute or company. We will tackle this problem by using our proven venture building model and fund. Social links: Joost Kruytzer on LinkedIn BigCircle Ventures on LinkedIn BigCircle Ventures website