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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

Traditional brands, namely eCommerce/luxury fashion and CPG brands are trying to figure out how to get in the action. Thinking ahead 5-10 yearsm we believe that Toya will be one of the leading IP owners of the virtual world. Toya – more than a studio. The way we valued Toya is not only by the future value of potential cash flows.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway.