YES!Delft
Sonja Bruins is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in various leadership and advisory roles. As the Director of WOMAN Invest since July 2012, Sonja Bruins focuses on investment opportunities in sustainable businesses with a commercial model. In addition, Sonja Bruins serves as a Board Member of Finance at TAUW Foundation, supporting societal impact initiatives aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Other current roles include membership on the supervisory board at Lowys Porquinstichting and a position as a business coach for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain at YES!Delft. Sonja Bruins has also held advisory positions at Vereniging Achmea and Woonfonds, and contributed as an advisory board member for TEDxRotterdam. With an academic background that includes multiple degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Nyenrode Business University, Sonja Bruins has also taught management and entrepreneurship courses at Hogeschool Tio, showcasing expertise in innovation, technology, and education.
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YES!Delft
At YES!Delft, we help building tomorrow's leading tech firms. We do this by providing full-lifecycle support to our startups, creating connections between talented people and disruptive ideas, and face global challenges, together. A little bit of story: YES!Delft opened the doors to its first location in 2005 as one of the first tech incubators in the Netherlands - next to the campus of the Delft University of Technology. Today, we support and empower tech entrepreneurs to bring their disruptive tech innovation to the market as fast and as best as possible. Over the years we have built custom ecosystems. We provide startups with 360 degree support: custom startup programs, full-lifecycle services such as recruitment and funding, access to market and capital, and a community of experts, corporate partners and mentors.How do we differentiate ourselves? We support entrepreneurs who build complex products (both hardware and digital) in challenging markets, often with a run-up time, long development trajectories and expensive prototyping involved. We take zero equity as we are a non-profit organisation. We believe that the entrepreneur comes first and we value quality over quantity.