The Netherlands is maintaining a strong position within the shifting European tech landscape. While startup funding across Europe declined by 5 per cent, Dutch startups raised €3.1B over the past year, a 47 per cent increase from 2023.
This growth is largely driven by deep tech and the continued scale-up of established ventures. Deep tech now makes up 35 per cent of the national ecosystem, supported by advances in AI, semiconductors, and quantum technologies.
At the core of this momentum is Amsterdam. The city has emerged as a key hub for technological development and investment.
In 2025, startups based in Amsterdam secured $686M across 99 funding rounds, according to Dealroom. With around 1,219 startups operating in the city, nearly 45 per cent of the national total, Amsterdam looks to play a central role in shaping the direction of the Dutch tech sector.
Recent funding rounds in the Dutch capital city span a wide range of industries, including digital finance, sustainable infrastructure, defence, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. Together, they represent the growing depth and diversification of the city’s startup ecosystem within the broader Dutch tech landscape.
This article profiles a selection of Amsterdam-based companies that have secured new investment in 2025.
Check them out below!
Note: Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names and the funding amount, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Contentlockr
D2X
Fund raised: €4.3M
Founder(s): Theodore Rozencwajg, Don van der Krogt, Laetitia Grimaud
Hiring: Currently hiring an Institutional Onboarding Specialist
D2X is a European institutional-grade derivatives exchange for digital assets. The company aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset ecosystem. The product suite includes BTC-USD, ETH-USD, BTC-EUR, and ETH-EUR Dated Futures, with Options soon to follow.
Fortaegis
Fund raised: Secured backing from TNO
Founder(s): Boudewijn Wijnands
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Fortaegis has developed technology suitable for both military and civilian applications. The company has developed a 5nm Secure Processing Unit (SPU) that promises to transform secure and high-performance data processing, communication, and storage.
The company targets data-critical AI applications across diverse sectors, including critical infrastructure, defence, telecommunications (6G), automotive, financial technologies, and Industry 4.0.
Dexter Energy
Fund raised: Raised €23M in Series C round
Founder(s): Hubert Penn, Luuk Veeken
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Dexter Energy offers advanced machine learning and optimisation solutions for short-term power trading.
The company’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition toward a fully carbon-free power system by making short-term power trading smarter, easier, and more profitable for renewable energy producers. It does this by integrating forecasting, automation, and asset management.
Studio Solarix
Fund raised: €4.2M
Founder(s): Marloes van Heteren, Reinier Bosch
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Solarix offers solar facade panels that enable buildings to generate, buffer, and supply solar energy. The panels are used in projects in the Netherlands and are being introduced in other European markets through local resellers.
Solarix connects its product to sustainability regulations and energy distribution needs, such as grid congestion. The company is working on automating assembly and managing its own colour technology. Its panels contribute to meeting sustainability standards and freeing up roof space for other uses.
Seenons
Fund raised: Strategic partnership with Fortino Capital
Founder(s): Joost Kamermans, Jorn Eiting van Liempt, Martin Kayser
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Seenons has built a circular waste management platform that aims to ensure that residual waste does not end up in a landfill or the ocean, or is burned. The company plays a crucial role in facilitating circular waste management for large enterprises, including Schiphol Airport, FrieslandCampina, and the Dutch Government.
In recent years, Seenons has made commercial progress in the Netherlands and Belgium and has gained early traction in Denmark and Switzerland. Since the launch, the company has reduced more than 30 million kilos of waste.
Crystal Blockchain
Fund raised: Received strategic investment from Tether
Founder(s): Led by current CEO, Navin Gupta
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Crystal Intelligence is a blockchain analytics firm that supports financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement with tools for transaction monitoring, investigations, and compliance. Its platform helps organisations meet anti-money laundering (AML) requirements and track crypto-related activity in real time.
Currently, the company offers two main editions: Crystal Expert, a web-based application, and Crystal API, which allows integration through a REST API. Both operate on Crystal’s servers located in the EU.
Surebird
Fund raised: Fresh funding from the Dutch Operator Fund
Founder(s): Taco van Wachem
Hiring: No
Surebird operates as a comprehensive insurance management platform that consolidates multiple policies into a single digital interface. The platform continuously monitors insurance portfolios and provides recommendations when policy changes or renewals occur.
It offers a comprehensive range of insurance services, including car, building, home contents, personal liability, accident, travel, legal expenses, and caravan insurance.
Stablr
Fund raised: Undisclosed amount from Kraken
Founder(s): Gijs op de Weegh
Hiring: No
StablR aims to create a transparent and scalable stablecoin ecosystem to support businesses, institutions, and individuals in the global financial landscape. Its flagship stablecoins, StablR Euro (EURR) and StablR USD (USDR), are designed to closely mirror the Euro and US Dollar.
Leveraging advanced blockchain technology, StablR provides a secure and efficient means of exchange, store of value, and unit of account, while maintaining high standards of compliance and transparency for activities such as cross-border payments, liquidity management, and global commerce.
Farm in a Box
Fund raised: Received €350K from the North Holland Innovation Fund
Founder(s): Ohad Maiman, Thue Holm
Hiring: No
Farm in a Box addresses the high costs and long construction times that currently hinder the growth of the land-based aquaculture sector.
The company offers a modular, prefab solution for sustainable land-based fish farming with Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS). The easy-to-assemble modules enable fast, affordable, and scalable fish production, without long construction processes or high costs.
Airweave
Fund raised: $6M in seed round
Founder(s): Lennert Jansen, Rauf Akdemir
Hiring: No
Airweave provides a system that helps AI agents search, access, and understand software applications. The platform addresses a common problem in the agent ecosystem, where agents cannot navigate and interpret complex systems effectively.
By enabling deeper system understanding, Airweave aims to improve agent performance and support broader adoption of agent-based workflows.
Whisper
Fund raised: Pre-seed funding round of €1.6M
Founder(s): Soroush Rafiee Rad, Leonardo Carlo Calisse, Kaveh Ranjbar
Hiring: No
Whisper is developing a cybersecurity platform that uses knowledge graph technology to monitor internet infrastructure and predict cyber attacks. The platform provides users with a system called “God Mode”, which offers a network-level view to detect threats earlier in the attack lifecycle.
The company aims to help organisations move from reacting to attacks to predicting them. It maps internet activity to spot threats early and reduce harm.
FIGO Mobility
Fund raised: Secured an investment from Edgar Verschuur
Founder(s): Joost Pompe
Hiring: No
Figo Mobility is an online platform for renting mobility. The platform provides an all-in-one solution for shared mobility and public transport through the Figo TravelCard.
Figo offers nationwide coverage with the largest providers in the Netherlands. Its app includes MyWheels, GreenWheels, Felyx, and Check.
Conpend
Fund raised: Secured majority investment from CIP
Founder(s): Marc Smith
Hiring: No
Conpend is a digital solutions provider that focuses on supporting financial institutions through the automation of manual processes in trade finance, loan documentation, and compliance.
The company offers AI-powered tools designed to assist operatives, compliance officers, and relationship managers in managing complex workflows.
Perry
Fund raised: €1.6M
Founder(s): Laurens Feenstra, Arie Kuiper
Hiring: No
Perry has introduced a platform that creates AI-powered work instructions for technicians. It aims to support workers in the technical field by providing task guidance through its technology.
The AI-based platform delivers visual, dynamic instructions tailored to the specific work environment. These instructions evolve based on practical input from users.
Perry works directly with technicians through field studies and live testing to create tools that are applicable in day-to-day tasks, moving away from solutions designed primarily for office use.
Balthazar
Fund raised: €1.8M in pre-seed round
Founder(s): Dejan Davidovikj, Konstantin Mertsalov
Hiring: No
Balthazar’s platform serves as a real-time, intelligent workspace that integrates every step of the R&D workflow, allowing researchers to run and monitor experiments directly from their browsers.
The platform connects to local workstations and lab instruments, organising all prototype data in one place, while enabling users to leverage and extend their existing code base. Built on modern web technologies and scalable cloud architecture, it facilitates faster iteration, seamless collaboration, and reproducible results at scale.
The company has supported more than 6,000 experiments and is trusted by a range of partners, from universities like TU Delft to companies in advanced semiconductors, quantum technologies, and energy storage.
Supplied AI
Fund raised: €1.6M in seed funding
Founder(s): Johann Rozario
Hiring: No
Supplied AI targets a critical pain point where 73 per cent of platforms cite compliance as their biggest operational challenge. The company’s AI platform streamlines compliance by using smart workflows, easy setup tools, and automated reports, reducing engineering effort and speeding up the process.
By unifying onboarding, back office management, data aggregation, and reporting into a single infrastructure layer, Supplied AI addresses frameworks spanning 1099-K, DAC8, and OECD Platform Rules across multiple jurisdictions.
Avantium
Fund raised: €10M senior debt financing
Founder(s): Claude Stoufs
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Avantium is a commercial-stage company specialising in renewable and circular polymer materials. It develops and commercialises technologies to produce materials from sustainable carbon feedstocks, such as biomass and CO2.
It’s leading YXY Technology converts plant-based sugars into FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid), the key component of the sustainable plastic PEF.
Crisp
Fund raised: €28M credit facility
Founder(s): Michiel Roodenburg, Tom Peeters, Eric Klaassen
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Crisp is the supermarket app that delivers groceries to doorsteps throughout all of the Netherlands and Belgium. Its software and operating system have been designed exclusively for local and seasonal products, ensuring the shortest possible distance from farm to fork.
The Dutch company offers customers access to more than 900 small-scale suppliers, demonstrating that circularity, zero waste, and responsible farming can have a place in the mass market.
