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Bernadeta Karpavičiūtė

Bernadeta Karpavičiūtė

Scale-up Lead at Up!Rotterdam and Head of Community & Platform for Upstream Festival, building Rotterdam's startup ecosystem.

Sep 4, 2026

PaulHOST
5:02
So what does that mean for your daily operations? What do you do in your job?
5:08
That is a very good question as well.
5:11
I think the scale-up leads, I have many, I want to say I have many questions on that, but That's maybe a difference also here in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, in Europe, that the term scale-up, I think, has shifted quite significantly over the past years.
5:26
Because for me, scale-up used to be a company that has 10 full-time employees, has raised a million in funding.
5:33
But if we do want to be able to compete and compare to our US counterparts, that is a startup.
5:41
Raising a million, especially in other parts of the world, is not that significant.
5:46
But unfortunately, in Europe, in the Netherlands, that is still a significant amount of money.
PaulHOST
7:59
That's great.

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