
Robin Hempel
Startup & Scale-up Banker at Rabobank in Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, helping startups and scale-ups access innovation contributions and bank financing.
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Sep 7, 2026
Rabobank funds startups before they have any revenue
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5:32PaulHOST
And then when you're talking to so, so many entrepreneurs or, uh, you know, entrepreneurs trying to, trying to work with you, of course, you, you look at the numbers and the, and the pure facts, but how much does the entrepreneur itself play a role when, when, when you think about, uh, okay, we're gonna work, uh, with that company? Um, is there, is there sort of a balance or is it, again, because you are still a bank, uh, mostly looking at the numbers, we can get our investment back, um, and then that's fine?

Robin HempelGUEST
That's a really interesting part of my work because Most of my companies either don't have revenue yet or they make revenue and they still, uh, have losses.

Robin HempelGUEST
So that means for us that we, uh, really s- really have a good look at who are the people running the companies, what's their experience, what have they done before.

Robin HempelGUEST
And of course, you want to make a nice match also with, uh, what, which markets they are in, what's the problem they are solving.

Robin HempelGUEST
So these aspects are more relevant for me, uh, from f- uh, from my team, uh, compared to the traditional banking, which a lot of o- other colleagues have made, which is way more backwards looking.

Robin HempelGUEST
What we do is actually pinpoint a moment where we say, "Okay, we can see that you have your c- commercial validation.
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9:43PaulHOST
... or attracting like a large target audience?