Spicing up our building
Our office building is a bit ugly from the outside. Not too many office buildings are great works of art or architecture, but ours is… well, just a bit sad. So, we’ve decided to change that. Our office building is going to be a piece of art. We were inspired by the large mural that…
Schedule for our #WCEU booth pitches
At WordCamp Europe in Athens, there will be 4 companies pitching their idea to us. Everybody is welcome to cheer on our candidates (and perhaps to advice us in making a wise investment decision!).
Pitch us your idea at WordCamp Europe 2023!
Emilia Capital is sponsoring WordCamp Europe 2023. If you’re looking for investment, we invite you to pitch your idea to us there and we’ll give you a Yes or No that weekend!
Our love for bootstrapping
The best way of growing a company doesn’t exist. There are multiple ways, and the “best” way depends on your market, your timing, current market economics and a lot of other things. But if you ask me which way I prefer someone builds a company, certainly their first company, it is by bootstrapping it. In…
The empowerwoment project
In 2019, when in became the CEO of Yoast, I initiated the empowerwoment project at Yoast. The program was focused on getting more women into leadership teams at Yoast. I was the CEO, but I was the only woman on our board. The empowerwoment project was initiated to make a change.
Not the typical entrepreneur
We are a-typical entrepreneurs. Probably a-typical investors too. We move quickly. We are start-up entrepreneurs with family values. We are Silicon Valley-like in our mindset and live in a small town in the Netherlands. In this blog post, I explain a little bit of our story and our values and mindset.
