Graciella van Vliet, CEO and co-founder of Closure, on growing a startup in death-tech

Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.

English - January 18, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MB
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She co-founded death tech company - yes you heard that right - Closure with Chantal van der Velde in 2017. They won the Philips Innovation Award and made it to top 3 in Sprout’s Dutch startup of the year.

Graciella has a Master in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and she was awarded Rotterdam Business Woman of the year.

In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:

Death and tech;Funding your growth;The things Graciëlla does when she’s not working on Closure.

Links mentioned:

People: Graciella van Vliet, Chantal van der Velde, Bart Verhaegh, Daniel Salimian, Janneke Niessen, Neelie Kroes, Elon Musk, Kees Jan Rietveld, Lex Geerdes, Hans Scheffer, Julian JagtenbergCompanies: Closure, EUR, DUO, Aon, Rabobank, Somnox, PHIAMedia: Techleap report "Thinking Bigger: how ambitious is the Dutch entrepreneur?", Cover Blof - Hier with vocals by Closure's CTO Bart Verhaegh Other: Delfshaven, Rotterdamse Zakenvrouw van het Jaar, Globaliser Program, Closure Vacancies