Graciella van Vliet, CEO and co-founder of Closure, on growing a startup in death-tech.

She co-founded death tech company - yes you heard that right - Closure with Chantal van der Velde in 2017. They won the Philips Innovation Award and made it to top 3 in Sprout’s Dutch startup of the year.

Graciella has a Master in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and she was awarded Rotterdam Business Woman of the year. 

In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:

• Death and tech;
• Funding your growth;
• The things Graciëlla does when she’s not working on Closure.   

Links mentioned:

• People: Graciella van Vliet, Chantal van der Velde, Bart Verhaegh, Daniel Salimian, Janneke Niessen, Neelie Kroes, Elon Musk, Kees Jan Rietveld, Lex Geerdes, Hans Scheffer, Julian Jagtenberg
• Companies: Closure, EUR, DUO, Aon, Rabobank, Somnox, PHIA
• Media: Techleap report "Thinking Bigger: how ambitious is the Dutch entrepreneur?", Cover Blof - Hier with vocals by Closure's CTO Bart Verhaegh 
• Other: Delfshaven, Rotterdamse Zakenvrouw van het Jaar, Globaliser Program, Closure Vacancies