Veldhoven Entrepreneur Awards

You can nominate entrepreneurs for Promising Entrepreneur or Veldhoven Entrepreneur of the Year. You can nominate using the form on this website. Anyone can participate.

The jury will choose 3 nominees for the Promising Entrepreneur. Then everyone may vote via the voting form on this website.

During the Veldhoven Verbindt business event, the Veldhoven entrepreneur awards will be the Golden Ticket, Promising Entrepreneur of the Year and Veldhoven Entrepreneur of the Year announced and awarded to the winners.

A special prize for starting entrepreneurs (< 3 years active in Veldhoven). Will be raffled by a notary and awarded during the event - attendance required.

Veldhoven Entrepreneur of the Year: The award for Veldhoven Entrepreneur of the Year has been adopted from the Veldhoven Entrepreneurship Trophy Foundation who in 2022 presented this award for the 25th and last time under the name Veldhoven Entrepreneur Trophy. From 2023 Veldhoven Verbindt presented this annual prize. For the prize Veldhoven entrepreneurs can be nominated, the jury will choose the winner. This overview shows all Veldhoven entrepreneurs who received this prestigious prize.  

Promising Entrepreneur of the Year: The 2019 Promising Entrepreneur of the Year award was created by Veldhoven Verbindt to encourage young entrepreneurs in Veldhoven. distinguish and encourage. For this prize, entrepreneurs can be nominated. The entrepreneurial awards jury will compile a top three from the nominated candidates. A voting round then follows and during the event it will be announced which of the three nominees wins the prize. This award was sponsored in 2019, 2022 and in 2023 by Avelco ICT Services. The candidate for the Entrepreneur of the Year award is chosen by the jury.

Golden Ticket: In 2023, the Golden Ticket was awarded for the first time to a starting entrepreneur. This is an entrepreneur who at the moment of participation has been registered at the Chamber of Commerce for less than 3 years, has established the company in Veldhoven or lives in Veldhoven. The prize will be raffled by a notary during the annual event and will only be awarded to someone who is also present during this evening.

View here the jury rules.

• Marcel Delhez - burgemeester van Veldhoven and chairman of the jury
• Wiljan Bazelmans - as a representative of Veldhoven business
• Hans Sonnemans - representing cultural Veldhoven
• Jacqueline Siem a Sjoe-Erdkamp - as a representative of advocacy Veldhoven
• Bianca Kuijpers - On behalf of Veldhoven Verbindt as representative of the organized Veldhoven Entrepreneurs
• Steff Huijbers - representing the former winners

The jury is supported from the Veldhoven Verbindt organization by Dirk Vorstenbosch, Chantal Ottens and Tosca Goes.