A total of €50.000 has been invested in the circular startup LoopTas by UT alumnus Udaya Vasepalli. LoopTas builds the infrastructure that makes sustainability and reusability easy for everyone.

The Dutch Student Investment Fund was founded on the 7th of April 2016. This means it has been half a decade, 60 months, 1 826 days, 43 800 hours that a group of individuals officially founded the existence of a fund that would survive to serve the success of student startups. This marks half of the DSIF 2020/2021 board year – I could not be more proud of all of our achievements as a board to date, and so I will take this opportunity to share some thoughts, areas of focus and a bit about DSIF.

As our farmers and fields face climate change challenges, we need daring entrepreneurs to build solutions. DSIF is excited to partner with Eden Advanced Technologies as they build vertical autonomous aeroponics farms. The investment will be used for product development, allowing Eden’s farms to disrupt the vertical farming market.

We are proud to announce that DSIF has invested 50.000 euros in a UT start-up LoCoMoGo, the company of student entrepreneur Kibet Kipkemoi. The master student Embedded Sytems develops a toy train that teaches children – in a playful way – the basics of programming.