

Pourya Darni
Startup Visa Advisor
Acknowledged entrepreneurship lecturer and advisor with multiple years of international experience of helping startups to scale their businesses and to successfully attract investment for their businesses (Seed, Series A and B). Combining academic and practical knowledge on startups and scaleups, I can help, particularly sustainable ventures, to understand better dynamics and possible bottlenecks of growing and funding a new innovative venture. In the past, we had several successful (and unsuccessful) European fundraising projects for women-led and/or sustainable startups that helped us to understand profoundly what investors (including venture capitalists) may look for and may ask about when they examine business plans and pitch decks. In addition, I have been involved in an international project of ecosystem analysis and scaleup program design led by United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO) and Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. I have had numerous workshops and courses on how to start and run a new business in the Netherlands and abroad.