Dutch startups and scale-ups saw significant growth in investments during the past year. According to a report from DSA (Dutch Startup Association), this trend is likely to continue in 2022, with foreign investors showing a lot of interest in Dutch startups and scale-ups.
Dutch-founded tech companies are responsible for creating 44,000 jobs, while international companies, including Tesla, Amazon and Netflix, are linked to 34,000 new positions. Several Amsterdam-based startups have also raised funding in the first quarter of 2022 and are now actively looking for fresh talents.
Here is a list of 31 such startups that are hiring right now. Certain details of these startups such as founders’ names, founding year, and the total funding raised, have been sourced from Dealroom. In case you are not actively looking out, you can always share this article with friends and family who may be looking out for a job.
TBAuctions
Founder(s): Herberth Samsom (current CEO)
Founded in: 2003
Total funding: N/A
TBAuctions is an online auction platform and marketplace for second-hand and second chance goods, operating through the brands Troostwijk Auctions (B2B) and BVA Auctions (B2C), and since November, 2021, also the Belgian brand Vavato. In January, 2022, British Medical Auctions was added to the group.
The company auctions movable and immovable goods on behalf of third parties through ATLAS, its proprietary IT platform for intelligent auctioning (IA). With over 13,000 auctions/2.75 million lots per year and over 10 million website visits per month, TBAuctions claims to be one of the largest online auctioneers in Europe.
Recently, the company raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Summa Equity partners and European private equity firm Castik Capital. TBAuctions is currently looking to expand its team and has various roles available. Check them out here.
Be Addy
Founder(s): Anton Kooijman
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: €800K
Be Addy is a SaaS platform for agencies and advertisers to create and optimise media plans. The company believes the combination of a media strategy and channels makes it easier to create, manage and optimise various campaigns.
Be Addy has recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding and is looking to hire fresh talents. Apply here.
Altura Platform
Founder(s): Matthijs Huiskamp, Trevi Awater
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $550K
Altura Platform wants to make tenders more accessible and smarter. The company is on a mission to stimulate business growth, build meaningful relationships, and create better matches – with added value for society.
Earlier this week, the company raised €500K in funding from software entrepreneur Perry Oostdam to accelerate product development and sales & marketing. It is looking to increase its workforce. Check out the open positions here.
ParkBee
Founder(s): Jian Jiang, Tom Buchmann
Founded in: 2013
Total funding: $40.5M
ParkBee is on a mission to improve the way car parking operates in Europe’s increasingly dense and populated cities. Its app allows drivers to locate and reserve available spaces in off-street car parks and be directed to those spaces through the ParkBee app and affiliates such as Google Maps. This way, the platform helps cities and property owners to better utilise their urban spaces.
With more than 400 affiliated parking locations in four countries and many collaborations with parking apps and parking providers, ParkBee reaches millions of users and provides them with a parking space.
The company recently raised €30M from former Booking.com CEO Kees Koolen’s Koolen Industries and a number of other tech entrepreneurs and investors, and is looking to hire fresh talents. Check them out here.
Clairify
Founder(s): Felix van den Horst, Tibor Casteleijn, Wim Kamerman
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $622K
Clairify builds next-gen software and indoor air quality sensors that transform the management of indoor air quality and thermal comfort in buildings. Companies such as the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE, iconic buildings like the A’DAM Tower, and the University of Amsterdam use Clairify’s data to create healthy workspaces.
The company aims to become the global leader in indoor air quality data, analytics and reporting. Throughout 2021, it grew exponentially as Covid-19 further accelerated the demand for healthy buildings.
Recently, the company raised €565K in its Seed round of funding and is looking to add a few members to its team. Apply here.
HirePort
Founder(s): Alexander Leenaers, Bram Medema, Remco van de Ruit
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $500K
HirePort is a platform for hiring tech employees via vetted recruiters. It brings the Uber concept to the recruitment market and connects recruiters and their ideal candidates to the companies looking for them. “Our solution offers a centralised platform where companies and recruiters can manage all their communication, hiring processes and invoicing,” says the company.
The company recently raised $500K in funding and is looking to recruit experienced talents to its team. Apply here.
Moove Africa
Founder(s): Jide Odunsi, Oladipo Delano, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $93.2M
Netherlands-headquartered Moove Africa is a mobility fintech company that provides vehicle financing to its customers and mobility entrepreneurs. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, allowing access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Moove, which is operational in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, runs flexible rental and lease models with partner drivers who have the ability to own the vehicles after agreed tenures.
Earlier this month, the Nigeria-born and Amsterdam-headquartered company raised $105M in its Series A2 round and is looking to hire talents in various departments. Check out the roles here.
Quatt
Founder(s): Bas Flipse, Marijn Flipse
Founded in: 2022
Total funding: $292K
Quatt designs AI-powered smart hybrid heat pumps to accelerate the decrease of gas consumption. The startup argues that installing these hybrid heat pumps don’t require any additional changes to the home and the boiler stays active to produce domestic hot water and supports the pump when it can’t meet the heating demand.
The startup says approximately 7.5 million homes in the Netherlands, which don’t yet have a heat pump installed, can reduce their gas consumption by up to 80 per cent. Recently, Quatt raised €265K and is looking for a Cloud & DevOps engineer.
Scenic Biotech
Founder(s): Sebastian Nijman, Thijn Brummelkamp
Founded in: 2017
Total funding: $38M
Scenic Biotech is a spin-out of the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oxford University. The company is focused on identifying genetic modifiers, a new class of disease targets, for drug intervention. Also known as disease suppressors, genetic modifiers are genes that act to suppress or completely block the effect of a disease-causing mutated gene.
Scenic is leveraging its Cell-Seq discovery platform to identify genetic modifiers across multiple therapeutic areas. It is building a pipeline of disease-modifying therapeutics to treat devastating diseases, including inherited rare diseases and cancer.
Earlier this month, the company raised €28M in its Series A round co-led by European investors, Eir Ventures, a Nordic Life Science venture fund, BioMedPartners and Vesalius Biocapital. Currently, Scenic is looking for new talents, check them out here.
Clear
Founder(s): Piet Hein van Dam, Madelon Bracke
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $2.3M
Clear is a spin-out of the global early-stage venture capital firm Antler. It offers a health programme based on a personal glucose metre, an app, a proprietary glucose algorithm, and an AI food recommender. The company analyses blood glucose levels to detect individual reactions to food and then provides users with personalised advice in real-time.
Besides, users also receive real-time personalised nutritional advice via the app and a real coach. They can then adjust their meals to improve blood sugar levels and prevent lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes.
In March, the healthtech startup raised €1M from food & agriculture VC Future Food Fund, Rabobank, and several prominent angels, and is now looking to hire experienced talents. Check out the available roles here.
Reynen Court
Founder(s): Andrew Klein
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $21.8M
Reynen Court enables law firms and corporate legal departments to speed the adoption of AI, Smart Contracts, and other new technologies. The company enables firms to run cloud-based applications either on-premises or within virtual private clouds under their control — thus giving access to modern software solutions without requiring a sacrifice of security or stability.
Earlier this month, the legaltech platform raised nearly €3.89M from three new investors and existing shareholders. With this round, the startup is looking for a Senior Customer Engineer. You can apply here.
Packaly
Founder(s): Adrik Elzing, Axel Dekker, Niels Nijhof
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $2.8M
Packaly offers fast, reliable and CO2 free shipping options within the same hour or at any given time slot to retailers like Lush, Decathlon, de Bijenkorf, and Blokker. The three founders came up with the idea while walking through the busy shopping streets of the city, noticing that products that were close by were often delivered within 1 to 2 days. And thus Packaly was born with a mission of “making 60 minutes the norm”.
The company is currently working with supermarkets, book stores, sports retailers, local fashion outlets, among others. It also claims that CO2 neutral shipping is part of its DNA.
Earlier this month, Packaly raised €2.4M in its Seed round in collaboration with Fairtree Elevant Ventures. The company currently has two openings, check them out here.
Source.ag
Founder(s): Rien Kamman, Ernst van Bruggen
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $10M
Source.ag believes that greenhouse agriculture is an answer to safer, reliable and climate-resilient food production. The company is developing technology to democratise access to sufficient fruit and vegetables through AI-powered greenhouses.
The company’s proprietary algorithms simulate plant behaviour to define and execute optimal cultivation strategies, taking into account millions of data points on climate, biology and resources. Source.ag claims that it produces up to 15 times higher yields and uses up to 20 times less water, while reducing pollution and use of land.
Earlier this month, the agtech startup raised €9M in its Seed round to accelerate its product development and expand commercial collaborations. The company is looking to hire a data scientist and software engineer, you can apply here.
Fashion Potluck
Founder(s): Julia Mitereva, Luis Galdamez Echeverria
Founded in: 2016
Total funding: $635K
Fashion Potluck is a platform for content sharing between women with a marketplace. In late 2021, the company reported over 65,000 monthly active users and says it is soon to become the first NFT-powered ecosystem for women to share and monetise content, learn, grow, and network in a safe and straightforward environment.
Blanco Fintech
Founder(s): Joost Walgemoed, Johan Verschelden, Manouk Fles, Katrien Van Parijs
Founded in: 2015
Total funding: $12.1M
Blanco Fintech develops technology for wealth managers that automates the entire wealth management process. The platform consists of a KYC and Compliance Suite as well as an Investment Suite, allowing asset managers to focus on client contact and advice efficiently.
Currently, it employs over 50 full-time employees and its solutions are used by 150 financial institutions in six European countries. The company is expanding its market share in Belgium and implementing its first customers in Germany.
The company recently secured over €3M in funding to cement its position and further automate and scale up its operation. Blanco is also looking to hire a few specialists in different areas. Check them out here.
Uni-Life
Founder(s): Joep Annega, Thomas Smulders
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $719K
Uni-Life is the student platform for universities focused on building a stronger campus community, boosting student engagement, and increasing the overall wellbeing of students. The company does this by collecting and monitoring student data, which showcases all the social aspects that affect student happiness.
The platform also provides relevant information for students such as upcoming events, student associations, organisations, faculties, clubs, and initiatives at the university. It works together with some of the biggest and most respectable un
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