PLNT Venture Academy

Run by PLNT.

PLNT's Venture Academy runs three months in Leiden across two cohorts a year, built from a kickoff, seven full-day sessions, fortnightly coaching and a closing pitch event, at an expected sixteen hours a week. It is free to aspiring entrepreneurs with a scalable deeptech idea, offers no investment, and publishes no equity terms.

Investment

Not disclosed

Equity taken

Not disclosed

Duration

13 weeks (Shorter than Europe & C. Asia median 26 wks · Shorter than global median 20 wks)

Format

in person

Cadence

biannual

Location

Leiden, Netherlands

Sectors

• Deep Tech

How to apply

Official website

This programme has notes explaining its undisclosed figures, available in the full dataset.

Sources

Every figure above is taken from these pages, published by the programme or its parent organisation.

• https://plnt.nl/en/programmas/venture-academy/ read 2026-09-06 — supports name, organization, city, country, country code, cheque note, cheque currency, equity note, duration weeks, duration note, batch cadence, format, sectors, application url, website, status, contact email
• https://plnt.nl/en/programmas/ read 2026-09-06 — supports organization, duration weeks, duration note, format, status
• https://plnt.nl/en/programmas/unlock-incubation/ read 2026-09-06 — supports equity note

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Last verified 2026-09-06.