Become Investor Ready

Catalyze will present at the Global Investor Forum with our engaging session, "Become Investor Ready." Catalyze CSO and founder Theodoor Rutgers will discuss what is needed as a company to become investor ready and prepare itself to attract potential investors and secure funding. This session includes various topics and aspects needed to be appealing and reassuring to investors. This includes company assessment, a strong business plan, understanding of the market opportunity, establishing a financial plan, presenting your value proposition, effective pitching and more. Overall, this session is aimed to establish a well-rounded understanding what is needed to successfully attract potential investors. Drawing upon our extensive expertise, learn actionable insights to refine your approach and bolster investor confidence. Join us for an enlightening session to propel your journey towards financial backing and sustainable growth.

Theodoor Rutgers | CSO & Founder, Catalyze

Theodoor Rutgers is an innovation specialist and investor. He co-founded Catalyze and led its growth into an international organization of 120+ consultants. The Catalyze team now works on more than 600 groundbreaking projects per year throughout Europe and plays a central role in the Dutch and European innovation ecosystem. Theodoor has raised over €100M and is involved in several early stage seed angel investment funds. He is also a co-founder and investment partner of Catalyze Capital, an investment fund focused on early stage innovations in the life sciences and sustainability. Theodoor has a deep understanding of the start-up ecosystem and provides strategic advice to innovative companies, helping them achieve successful market entry. His passion is accelerating innovations that have a positive impact on the world.

About Catalyze

At Catalyze we commit ourselves to accelerate innovations that have a positive impact on the world. We are the driving force for innovations across the fields of Life Sciences and Sustainability. Our offering of strategic consulting services, funding consulting, project management and more, deliver impactful expertise for all development stages and investments. With a proven track record and the highest quality and success rate in the industry, we aim to be the consulting partner of choice to drive the success of meaningful innovation projects. Catalyze was founded by researchers and entrepreneurs that truly understand your business and know how to bring it to success. We lower the thresholds to resources for companies and academics, with consistent success. To date, we have raised over €1B and built a network of more than 3000 project and investment partners. Thus, we have affirmed our status as a key player in the innovation ecosystem, headquartered in Amsterdam and operating worldwide