Venturelab North is a validated business accelerator for knowledge intensive and growth oriented startups/scaleups and existing companies in the Northern-Netherlands with the ambition to serve the international market. Based on the proven method of VentureLab International, and acknowledged by NBIA-accreditation. The program received awards for the best international Growth Promoting programme from the EU and Technopolicy Network And is supported by Nationaal Programma Groningen, Gasunie, Gasterra, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the University of Groningen and other partners. . VentureLab North is an initiative of University of Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship (UGCE), in cooperation with many partners and under the academic leadership of prof. dr. Aard J. Groen (dean UGCE).