In this article, we have highlighted the Amsterdam-based startups that secured funding in October 2025, some of which are hiring.
The Dutch startup ecosystem saw a slowdown in funding activity in 2025 as investors became more careful and big funding rounds decreased. Data shows that total tech investment across the Netherlands declined by 26 per cent to €6.7B in the first nine months of the year, while venture funding in the third quarter fell 37 per cent quarter-on-quarter, reaching its lowest deal count in five years.
Even with this drop, startups across the country continued to raise money in areas like energy, technology, and sustainability. Amsterdam remains the main centre for startup activity in the Netherlands. The city has about 1,219 startups, which is around 45 per cent of all startups in the country.
In October 2025, Amsterdam-based startups raised over $100M across 19 funding rounds. Companies such as Return, TRACT, and Oneleet raised new funds and started hiring, showing that business activity in the city is still moving forward even as overall funding slows down.
In this article, we highlight the Amsterdam startups that raised funding in October 2025 and are currently hiring. Check them out below!
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Note: Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names and the funding amount, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Return
Founders: Willem-Jan Schutte
Funds raised: €300M in growth equity
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Return is an independent energy storage provider that develops and builds large-scale battery systems, leasing their capacity to energy companies and traders.
The company’s high-tech battery energy storage system (“BESS”) platform connects storage sites across countries, showing real-time insight where energy is available and needed to ease congestion and strengthen the grid.
TRACT
Founders: Allison Kopf (current CEO)
Funds raised: €18.6M in Series A
Hiring: Yes, apply here
TRACT measures sustainability performance in the agriculture and food industry. It offers clear metrics and methods for multiple product categories.The Dutch company helps businesses visualise their supply chain sustainability and gain insights, enabling them to focus on making a positive impact.
Hydryx
Founders: Anthonie Jacobson, Joren Tangelder
Funds raised: €2.5M in seed round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Hydryx is developing systems to capture methane from landfills and convert it into green electricity, aiming to reduce emissions and support the energy transition.
This system captures methane before it escapes into the air, allowing landfill owners to convert it into green energy. The result: fewer emissions, additional revenue for landfill operators, and proof that the most sustainable option can also be the smartest investment.
The company’s approach automates the process, enhancing extraction efficiency and reducing methane leaks.
SOUS
Founders: Devon Scoulelis and Thomas Scholte
Funds raised: undisclosed funding
Hiring: No
SOUS is a commerce platform that empowers chefs, restaurants, and food entrepreneurs to launch, manage, and scale online businesses without needing a tech team.
By eliminating intermediaries, the Dutch company gives creators full ownership of their brand and operations, simplifying how they launch, scale, and sustain online businesses.
Northsea
Founders: Geart van Dam, Nick van Zanten
Funds raised: €660K pre-seed round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Northsea’s AI-native research platform helps consultants, investors, and strategy teams generate deeper customer insights.
The company’s AI research assistant simplifies the entire research process, including survey design, finding respondents, data collection, and analysis. This automation cuts down manual work by up to 80 per cent, claims the company.
AMBTS
Founders: Lucas Wensing
Funds raised: €30M in aggregate investment
Hiring: Yes, apply here
AMBTS is designed for institutional investors seeking bitcoin exposure through a regulated, European structure. Over time, AMBTS aims to become a 1 per cent Bitcoin treasury company.
Datamonk
Founders: Jaap Gielink, Jai Bhatia, Matthew Condron
Funds raised: €1.6M in funding
Hiring: No
Datamonk has developed a platform that uses agentic AI to automate PACS and VNA migrations.
The platform detects and corrects metadata issues, standardises study naming, and validates data integrity during the migration process. The software aims to reduce the time and manual effort involved in traditional migration projects, allowing hospitals to move data five to ten times faster.
Datamonk’s platform also prepares imaging data for clinical use, research, and AI applications, providing a data layer for healthcare providers transitioning to new systems.
ThreatFabric
Founders: Han Sahin, Yorick Koster
Funds raised: Strategic investment
Hiring: No
ThreatFabric is a premier Mobile Threat Intelligence and Online Fraud Detection company. The company offers data-driven, AI-powered solutions to protect businesses and their customers.
Their Threat Intelligence and SDK-based platform help prevent various types of fraud, such as malware, app fraud, bots, remote access Trojans (RATs), scams, impersonation, account takeover, and information theft.
Trusk Technology
Founders: Caspar Lusink, Tom Rijntjes
Funds raised: €350K in funding from the North Holland Innovation Fund
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Trusk Technology is working to improve security in Europe. The company turns technology used in real operations into tools for protecting cities and infrastructure. It develops defence systems that can be widely used, applies solutions that already work in the field, and builds systems that can expand to cover more areas.
Saga
Founders: Bosse Langaas, Remco Visser
Funds raised: €1.5M in seed round
Hiring: No
Saga’s platform offers transparent AI assistants, legal databases, and agentic workflows, enabling legal professionals to deliver faster and higher-quality work.
It provides customised legal solutions based on legal research, case documents, and specific legal roles created in collaboration with lawyers or tax advisors. The approach focuses on lawyers, providing them with specialised legal tools and comprehensive training to help them use these resources effectively.
The company’s adoption program includes five interactive training sessions that cover awareness, process thinking, and practical application.
GBM Works
Funds raised: Closes seed funding round at €6.2M
Hiring: No
GBM Works has developed Vibrojet technology, which combines vibrations with water jets to drive monopiles into the seabed. This reduces noise by up to 63 per cent and can also save time and money in wind farm construction.
The company does so by collaborating with DEME Offshore and Deltares to focus on the controlled fluidisation of soil through methods like water jetting and vibrations. This expertise is being applied in the offshore wind industry, where they work with equipment suppliers and contractors to design systems and establish machines based on solid prediction models.
Oneleet
Founders: Erik Vogelzang, Ora Onel, Bryan Onel
Funds raised: $33M (€28.14M) in Series A round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Oneleet helps companies meet SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other compliance standards by focusing on security first. The approach begins with building strong security systems, with compliance achieved as a natural outcome rather than through checklists.
The platform combines services that usually require multiple vendors—such as penetration testing, code scanning, cloud posture management, attack surface monitoring, mobile device management, and security training—into one system.
By developing and managing these tools internally, Oneleet can provide end-to-end security through a unified platform.
Dashmote
Founders: Dennis Tan, Matthäus Schreder, Stefan Tan
Funds raised: $6M (€5.1M) in Series A1 round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Dashmote is an AI technology company that turns unstructured data into useful insights for sales, strategy, and marketing. Its main platform, created for the food and beverage sector, collects data from food delivery services and mapping tools. This helps businesses find growth opportunities, improve their online presence, and expand their reach.
Legal Mind
Founders: Jelle Burggraaf, George Gowers
Funds raised: €750K
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Legal Mind is a digital tool designed for Dutch laws and regulations. Its AI-powered platform combines technological precision with legal expertise, supporting legal research, case analysis, and document generation.
According to the company, it not only gives information but also understands context and acts like an experienced professional. This helps speed up analysis, organise files, and draft documents intelligently. As a result, legal professionals can focus more on their main tasks — strategy, advice, and justice.
Optics11 Life
Founders: Davide Iannuzzi, Hans Brouwer
Funds raised: Fresh funding (undisclosed)
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Optics11 Life develops instruments that measure the mechanical properties of cells, tissues, and biomaterials.
The company uses fibre-optic sensing with automation and imaging to perform high-throughput mechanical screening, generating data for drug development, disease modeling, and quality control in regenerative medicine.
Its instruments—Pavone, Piuma, Chiaro, and Cuore—include tools for cell-to-tissue nanoindentation and a contractility platform that monitors 3D muscle-bundle dynamics, quantifying stiffness, viscoelasticity, and force generation.
Fellos
Founders: Rob Smeitink, Sibren Tolsma
Funds raised: €2.15M in growth capital
Hiring: No
Fellos is the Netherlands’ first digital clinic specialising in men’s health, providing accessible, high-quality care for those hesitant to visit a GP (general practitioner). The platform connects patients with BIG-registered doctors and a Dutch partner pharmacy for consultations and prescriptions.
At present, the Dutch platform focuses on three areas where men often face barriers to seeking help: sexual health (such as erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation), skin conditions (acne) and hair loss. The company has already helped over 10,000 patients since its inception and aims to support one million people across Europe by 2030.
Dott
Founders: Maxim Romain, Henri Moissinac
Funds raised: €85M
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Dott operates shared micromobility services in Europe. The company was formed in March 2024 through the merger of TIER and Dott and continues under the Dott name. All vehicles from both operators have been integrated into the Dott app.
Dott manages a fleet of more than 250,000 vehicles in over 400 cities across 21 countries in Europe and the Middle East. Its 10 million registered users have completed more than 400 million rides since the merger.
Phone labs
Founders: Boris Blijham
Funds raised: €2.5M in a two-part funding round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
ThePhoneLab is a dedicated repair service specialising in smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The company addresses a wide array of issues, covering both hardware and software repairs.
Operating both in-store and through a convenient Send-In Service, ThePhoneLab offers quick and efficient solutions to repair broken devices without requiring an appointment. It has a broader mission focused on extending the lifespan of mobile devices and reducing electronic waste.
Finstack
Founders: Karel Gonzalez Hulshof, Sebastiaan Hoekstra
Funds raised: €1.2M
Hiring: Currently not hiring
Finstack enables companies to speed up their month-end closing with its automated reporting, consolidation and forecasting platform.
The platform handles consolidations across multiple entities, including intercompany eliminations, minority/non-controlling interest, and sub-group reporting. The reports can also be consolidated by group, region, or business unit, with full visibility into eliminations and adjustments, says the company.
