Cycle & Scale
Your Business Development Partner
Driving growth in Women’s Health.
Helping founders and entrepreneurs build, grow and scale their business
in the Netherlands and Germany.
OUR SERVICES
A business partner alongside you
Building and growing a business comes with opportunities, ideas and constant choices. Where do you focus? Which opportunities do you pursue? Which partnerships could move your business forward?
Cycle & Scale combines strategic thinking with hands-on Business Development to help you make the right choices, create the right connections and turn plans into action?
From direction and commercial choices to concrete action.
Business Development & Commercial Growth
Helping you build and grow your business by identifying commercial opportunities, sharpening your proposition, making the right choices and turning ideas into action.
Market Expansion|
Netherlands & Germany
Helping you enter, establish and grow your business in the Netherlands and Germany, with local market knowledge and the right network.
Strategic Partnerships & Connections
Building the right partnerships and connections to open doors, create opportunities and accelerate growth.
Business Sparring & Advisory
A trusted sparring and accountability partner alongside you to make choices, set priorities and keep your business moving forward.
OUR VISION
Healthier women, healthier societies
At Cycle & Scale, we believe that true gender equity in health does not mean treating women and men the same. Recognising sex- and gender-related differences is essential to providing high-quality healthcare that is tailored to different needs.
Because improving women’s health reaches far beyond the individual. Healthier women strengthen families, communities, workplaces and economies.
There is enormous potential in the founders, businesses and solutions driving change in Women’s Health & FemTech. By helping them build stronger businesses, grow and reach more people, Cycle & Scale helps scale their impact too.
OUR EXPERIENCE
18+ years in Business Development, Partnerships & Market Expansion
Cycle & Scale is built on 18+ years of commercial and cross-border business experience, with a track record of supporting 50+ organisations in the Netherlands and Germany. Combined with strong local market knowledge and an extensive network in both countries, we connect founders and businesses with the right opportunities and partners to accelerate growth and scale their impact.
LET’S CONNECT
Ready to move your
business forward?
Let’s explore where your business is today, where you want to go and what could help you get there.
Build and grow
your business
Create the right partnerships
Expand into
new markets
NEWS & EVENTS
In the media and on stage
Featured Events
Latest from Cycle & Scale
Interview with Bianca Glang– The Netherlands as a Springboard for Healthcare Innovations | Achtung! InnoHealth
In the Healthcare Innovators series by Achtung! InnoHealth, Bianca Glang, expert in German-Dutch business relations, reflects on the opportunities and challenges of cross-border expansion in healthcare. Interviewed by Simeon Atkinson, Managing Director of Achtung!...
Interview with Cécile van der Heijden – Regulation as a Driver for FemTech Innovation
Regulation in women’s health is often treated as an obstacle. It is said to be too slow, too costly, too complex. For Cécile van der Heijden, attorney-at-law at Axon Lawyers, it is the opposite: “Regulation brings clarity. And clarity leads to power.” In this...
Replay – Panel: Revolutionizing Women’s Health – HLTH Europe 2025
Watch the full recording of the HLTH Europe 2025 panel “Revolutionizing Women’s Health: The Power Struggle Between Innovation, Policy, and AI.” Hosted by Embrace, Enlaza, and Cycle & Scale (formerly BGA Consulting), the session gathered leading voices from across...
Insights & Resources
Checklist – How to set up a Dutch company
Coming soon!
Insight Report – Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All
Published January 2025 | The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, presents a landmark report that highlights both the human and economic potential of closing the women’s health gap. The report introduces a novel framework and...
“Did you know that in 2025 doctors treated woman the same as small men?”
