As business development manager at Invest-NL, Jorine contributes to the mission to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral and circular economy. She focuses on cooperation with European institutions and the development of new financing products. Also before her time at Invest-NL, Jorine made an impact by stimulating high-tech and meaningful innovations. First as the first employee of a high-tech startup in the Netherlands, and then in early-stage funding of Deep Tech startups in San Francisco. The intersection between science and societal impact has always strongly appealed to her. Besides her studies in Biomolecular Sciences, she worked as a freelance science journalist and did research for the Access to Medicine Foundation.