Accelerator
Rockstart
Accelerator and early-stage investor · Amsterdam
An Amsterdam-based early-stage investor that backs founders in energy, agrifood and emerging technology, combining investment with mentor-driven support programmes.
From the Flux Forward organisation register · Not edited on this site How we check thisHide
Organisation records are published from the Flux Forward organisation register and shown here exactly as that register holds them. We do not research, write or edit them on this site, and a listing is not an endorsement or a sign that an organisation can help with your situation. Check the organisation's own website before acting.
It is an investor that selects which companies it backs, so this is a funding route for a founder already building something rather than an open scheme anyone can use.
- Visit website (opens in a new tab)
- LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
- Contact (opens in a new tab)
- Facebook (opens in a new tab)
- X (opens in a new tab)
- YouTube (opens in a new tab)
About
Rockstart is a private accelerator and investment business with its main office in Amsterdam and further offices in Copenhagen and Bogota. It was founded in 2011 as an accelerator for early-stage companies and has since moved towards seed investing and longer support for the founders it backs. Its work is organised by field rather than by country: it runs separate funds and programmes for agrifood, for energy and for emerging technology, and describes its investments as running from pre-seed up to series B. A company it selects receives money together with mentoring, strategy support, introductions to markets and access to a network of investors and people who know the field. Around the funds it runs sector networks, one on biochar and one on food circularity, and a climate initiative it calls Forward. It says it backs founders whose businesses are meant to be sustainable or regenerative. Founders apply through the website, and the Latin American part of the business is run from Bogota.
What they offer
- Investment in early-stage companies from pre-seed to series B
- Mentor-led support packages built around one domain
- Introductions to markets, investors and specialists
Programmes
- AgriFood fund and programme
- Energy fund and programme
- Emerging Tech fund and programme
- Forward
A climate initiative run around the funds.
- Biochar Network and Food Circularity Network
Sector networks it runs alongside the funds.
Good to know
- A commercial investor that chooses the companies it works with, not an open support scheme.
- It invests in three named fields: agrifood, energy and emerging technology.
- No general email address or telephone number is published. Its contact page offers a form and three office addresses.
Suggest an update Spot something outdated, missing or incorrect?
Pick what it is. Your own email app opens with this page's details already filled in, so you do not have to explain which page you mean. Nothing is sent until you send it.
Not a correction? Suggest a resource or organisation.
A suggestion is read by a person and does not change a published page on its own. Please leave out personal details such as your BSN, passport number or case number.
This entry describes an independent organisation. How to in NL is not affiliated with them, listing is not an endorsement, and it does not mean they can help with your particular situation. Check the details on their own website before acting.