PITCH.DAY - Startup Rollercoaster

Sem Vijverberg and Jannes van Ingen are working on better weather predictions, but not to let you know if your BBQ will be ruined by rain. They are predicting things like crop growth in the next couple of months, which can have a big humanitarian impact. But in the meantime Beyond Weather needs to make money, so how will they do that?

"It sounds like an insane mission" is what I told Willem Spruijt about innovating in the calendar space. He agreed, but offered a really interesting perspective and explains how Rise Calendar gives you your time and focus back to be way more productive.

As a photographer Steef Fleur saw a washable diaper when she was on assignment in California and immediately felt that way more people should use them. But when her son was born she started to understand why people don't use them, which put her on a mission to help the world get rid of disposable diapers.

After Laurie's son almost died of a severe allergic reaction, she decided to make it her mission to help parents prevent allergies in their children. She found the perfect co-founder in her long-time friend Jozien Boersma and together they are building Vini Mini.

After doing technical and product due diligence on over 100 startups, Wouter Neyndorff and his team saw that a lot of companies struggle to achieve a positive return on their research and development. To help companies structure their product strategy, they decided to build ProductHub.

Getting a Customer Success department running in a predictable way can be hard and there are few practical solutions. Pieter Boon and Konstantin Goncharuk are on a mission to demystify Customer Success with ImpactPilot, born out of a personal frustration.

After a traumatic personal experience, Irati Beltran Hernandez decided to dedicate her career to contributing to cancer research. Together with her co-founder Sebas Pronk, she is now working on getting a very promising light therapy to patients.

When Nara Moripen lost her mother to cancer, she felt the palliative care could have been organized in a better way. Together with her co-founder Azi Doost, she is now working hard on Pal; creating a better experience for people who find themselves in that horrible situation.