Arjan van den Born leads ROM Utrecht Region while also holding a professorship in digital entrepreneurship at Tilburg University, and his background includes quantitative economics, asset management roles, and research on freelancers and entrepreneurial ecosystems. He's known for pushing leaders to better understand data and AI, valuing technical depth in founders, treating ethics and transparency as central to working with data, and believing entrepreneurship works best when people connect and share ideas across boundaries rather than staying siloed.
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ROM Utrecht Region
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Health, Climate, Biotech, Energy, Medtech
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ROM Utrecht Region is a social investor backed by public and institutional partners, including the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Utrecht University, UMC Utrecht, and regional authorities, that funds startups and small businesses in three named ecosystems: Life Sciences & Health, Earth Valley, and New Digital Society. It stays involved with companies across multiple funding rounds, backs projects like lab-grown materials and hospital-born medical technology, and even funds financing infrastructure itself to help broaden access to capital for startups in the region.
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