Rotterdam welcomes entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors who are keen to seize the future. Daring to push the limits, and the longing for growth, are written into the city’s DNA. Rotterdam reinvented itself in the past and is doing it again. With the emphasis on innovation and a can-do approach, things happen in Rotterdam that can’t happen anywhere else. Rotterdam is a valuable partner for the market because it offers a short time-to-market. The city is gearing up to offer you high-level service. Investing in accessibility and the logistical quality of region remains a priority.It also offers access to relevant networks of business partners and knowledge centres and the public/private innovation and development funds relating to them. The improvement of living conditions and social climate is also high on the agenda of the city of Rotterdam.This is achieved by developing quality housing in extension areas, in the city centre and near the riverbanks. Rotterdam World Port, World City.

Clean Tech Delta (CTD) is a privately driven cooperation of internationally operating companies, knowledge institutions and local governments. Our private partners take the lead in recognising and developing new clean tech business. Local governments facilitate this cooperation. As a business minded triple helix organisation, officially established in May 2013, we form a new type of public-private partnership in order to realise new business for our members and attract new funding. We believe that clean tech is the key to adapt to and create a new economy. Using the region as an Urban Living Lab, a place where newly applied clean tech solutions can be tested, we can share the solutions and apply them, on a large(r) scale, abroad. Our ambition is to strengthen the clean tech cluster in our region and to make a significant contribution to the regional economy. In 2020 our cluster will count 4.000 companies, SME’s and start-up’s, which will provide 50.000 jobs.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's legacy closely traces the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley. For nearly six decades, the firm has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation. Today, Wilson Sonsini is synonymous with ushering promising, innovative companies through their business life cycle. And as their clients have grown, so has the firm. They now represent many of the largest companies in the world, and thousands of the smallest ones, too. Since its inception, Wilson Sonsini has maintained an active role in Silicon Valley's technology ecosystem by continuing the work they do with top innovators and entrepreneurs, and the funding sources that support them. Their position as the leading provider of legal services to technology and life sciences clients was earned by representing the disruptive, market-creating companies that influenced every milestone marking an evolution in technology - from the semiconductor, computer, and software pioneers of the 1970s and 1980s to today's life sciences, internet, and social media innovators.

Bryan, Garnier & Co is a European, full service growth-focused independent investment banking partnership founded in 1996. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading, private and public capital raising as well as M&A services to growth companies and their investors. It focuses on key growth sectors of the economy including Technology, Media & Telecoms, Healthcare, Smart Industries & Energy, Consumer, Brands & Retail and Business Services. Bryan, Garnier & Co is a fully registered broker dealer authorised and regulated by the FCA in Europe and the FINRA in the U.S. Bryan, Garnier & Co is headquartered in London, with additional offices in Paris, Munich and New York. The firm is a member of the London Stock Exchange and Euronext.

Icos is a collaborative venture capital firm working at the intersection of digital and sustainable industry. By bringing corporates and startups together and facilitating strong partnerships, we ensure "win-win" growth for the partnership and our investors. We believe a hands-on approach is the best method to really help startups thrive.

CCU is a broad term that covers all established and innovative industrial processes that aim at capturing CO2 – either from industrial point sources or directly from the air – and at transforming the captured CO2 into a variety of value-added products such as synthetic fuels, chemicals and building materials. Other terms such as CO2 transformation, CO2 conversion, CO2 recycling, CO2 valorization, or CO2 upcycling can also be used.

InnoRate is a H2020 project that aims to facilitate tech-driven SMEs showcase their potential and access more easily financial solutions necessary to scale and grow. Towards this aim, InnoRate introduces a novel service platform that evaluates and benchmarks tech-driven companies based on the well-established Korean Technology Rating System, that has a track record of assessing over 200,000 cases and helping SMEs acquire more than EUR 75 billion. The platform bears the signature of nine leading institutions from six European countries: Q-Plan International, TechTour Global, Ernst and Young, European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN), Jolt Capital, White Research and Ontotext. These institutions came together over a period of 36 months in the quest of making an unrivalled platform that uses cutting-edge technologies to evaluate and benchmark the potential your company.