Xavier Walthoff Borm
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Xavier Walthoff-Borm is a policy advisor for start-ups and scale-ups at VLAIO, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and holds a PhD in entrepreneurial finance. His work focuses on how finance, policy and entrepreneurial ecosystems can help ambitious companies scale, bridging insights from research, practice and public policy. He is also a guest professor at HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Why Europe’s startups raise less, build slower, and call it a strength
Europe has found a comforting answer to its funding gap: perhaps it does not need to close it.…
August 28, 2026