Amsterdam continues to solidify its position as a leading startup hub in Europe, hosting approximately 1,219 startups—about 45 per cent of the Netherlands’ total.
Despite a slight dip in the 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Index, the city remains a magnet for talent and investment.
In March 2025, several Amsterdam-based startups secured significant funding, reflecting the city’s dynamic and resilient entrepreneurial landscape. This article highlights the companies that raised funds and some of them are currently hiring.
Note: Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names and the funding amount, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Mews
Founder/s: Richard Valtr, Matthijs Welle
Funding amount: Secured €70.6M in funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Mews has developed Mews Hospitality Cloud to streamline operations for modern hoteliers, transform the guest experience, and create more profitable businesses.
The company claims to have over 5,500 customers and its clients include BWH Hotels, Strawberry, The Social Hub and Airelles Collection.
Thorizon
Founder/s: Lucas Pool, Sander de Groot
Funding amount: Secured €20M
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Thorizon is developing a modular molten salt reactor designed to complement wind and solar power by using energy from existing nuclear waste. The reactor aims to provide a stable and reliable energy source for industrial sites and communities.
Kiki Lauwers, CEO of Thorizon says, “Our patented technology overcomes the main bottlenecks to bring molten salt, a technology that has already been demonstrated, to the market. The main technical challenges for molten salt reactors are material integrity and fuel management. Thorizon has developed a unique, patented cartridge concept that industry experts recognise as a “smart and elegant” solution to key design challenges inherent to molten salt reactors—specifically, material integrity and fuel management.”
Moonwatt
Founder/s: Zukui Hu, Guillaume Mancini, Valentin Rota
Funding amount: Secured nearly €8M in seed round
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Moonwatt focuses on developing energy hardware and software to address challenges in the energy transition. The company aims to make clean power cost-competitive and available around the clock by solving renewable power intermittency.
To achieve this, Moonwatt utilises sodium-ion battery technology, which offers a cost-effective solution for large-scale energy storage. The company is building a team with expertise in the energy sector to accelerate the development and deployment of its storage solutions.
Lemni
Founder/s: Alex Buis, Krijn Rijshouwer
Funding amount: Secured €3.3M in a pre-seed round
Hiring status: Currently not hiring
Lemni’s AI agents offer an alternative by providing businesses with digital assistants that operate from a single source of truth for each customer.
The company does this by setting up custom AI agents for each customer, giving them an immediate understanding of the entire history. This means that every interaction begins where the last one ended, eliminating the need for customers to repeat themselves.
The company aims to enhance customer interactions with real-time knowledge and actionable insights, enabling every engagement to feel personal and efficient. One of Lemni’s core goals is to make AI-driven customer service solutions more accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Billy Grace
Founder/s: Robin Friend, Mitch Voskuilen, Tjadi Peeters
Funding amount: Secured €3M
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Billy Grace lets companies collaborate with self-learning algorithms, where marketers can better track, attribute, analyse, automate, and optimise online marketing within and across channels.
The Dutch company looks to continue scaling up its operations within the Netherlands and abroad. In 2024, Billy Grace reported 700 per cent growth.
The Micro Habit Company
Founder/s: Rob van Drunen, Paul Stienen
Funding amount: Undisclosed
Hiring status: Looking for a senior software engineer, apply here
The Micro Habit Company has developed science-based programmes that have assisted thousands of professionals in transforming their habits both on and off the job.
Each issue is translated into a scientifically grounded Micro Habit programme, making behaviour change accessible and measurable. By leveraging a combination of gamification and a user-friendly app, the company provides a platform for teaching employees essential skills, including healthy lifestyle choices, AI adoption, and cybersecurity practices.
Fraudio
Founder/s: João Moura, Nathan Trousdell, Claire Scott-Hayes, Robin Vastenou, Oswin Frans
Funding amount: Undisclosed
Hiring status: Currently not hiring
Fraudio is a fintech startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect payment fraud and money laundering. The company provides services to merchants, payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and card issuers.
Operating in the financial services market, Fraudio focuses on enhancing security and compliance through AI-driven solutions.
Dubformer
Founder/s: Anton Dvorkovich
Funding amount: Raised €3.38M in seed round
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Dubformer addresses industry challenges with Emotion Transfer, a technology which enhances dubbing by transferring emotions rather than cloning voices.
Emotion Transfer generates detailed speech elements like intonation, emotion, and pace using source audio as a reference. This approach, known as generative dubbing, goes beyond voice replication.
Since languages have distinct prosodic features, exact mimicry of all speech nuances is not possible. Instead, this method aims to produce dubbing that is more natural than traditional text-to-speech or voice cloning technologies.
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