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 universities, including Erasmus University Rotterdam, Vrije University Amsterdam, Leiden University, TU Delft, Tilburg University, among others.
The company has recently completed its second round funding of €275K from Fundsup and is looking to expand its team. The company currently has various internship opportunities, check them out here.
SeMI Technologies
Founder(s): Bob Van Luijt, Etienne Dilocker, Micha Verhagen
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $16M
SeMI Technologies originally spun out of ING Labs and democratises search capabilities that have, until now, been closely guarded by a handful of huge tech companies. The company’s software gives customers the option of running it on their infrastructure, allowing them to maintain control of their data, safely behind their own firewalls. The software is offered to a wide variety of industries in the form of SaaS and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) licences.
The company’s new database technology, Weaviate, gives any enterprise the advantage of databases built with ML and deep learning at their core. The first use cases have been natural-language ones but the company is also exploring images, videos, audio, and even esoteric cases such as graph or gene embeddings. Weaviate has been downloaded over 700K times, a number growing about 30 per cent per month, according to the company.
Recently, the company raised €14.1M in funding co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Cortical Ventures, and other investors. With this, SeMI Technologies is looking to expand its team (including WFH opportunities). You can check them out here.
Aito
Founder(s): Jockum Lönnberg, Pauli Laitinen, Rene Vries, led by CEO Nedko Ivanov
Founded in: 2012
Total funding: $13.5M
Aito claims to be a frontrunner in the global human interface market. The company’s Haptile modules add force sensing and haptic feedback to an extensive range of devices, including laptops, keyboards, computing mice, smartphones, and car infotainment systems.
The company’s technology is developed by a team of engineers based in Espoo, Finland. The company claims that its technology can be scaled to offer the largest edge-to-edge touchpads in the industry as well as provide consumer technology companies with new design options to create compact and versatile laptops, accessories, displays, and other devices.
Recently, Aito raised €1M from Dutch banking giant Rabobank and is looking to onboard fresh talents. Check out the openings here.
Check Technologies
Founder(s): Thijn van Helvoirt, Paul van Merrienboer
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $11M
Check Technologies is on a mission to make cities more liveable. It offers a mobile app through which users can reserve and use shared e-mopeds on a per minute basis. Check believes that shared e-mopeds are a proven and effective substitute for cars and contribute to less air and noise pollution, and cause less congestion in cities.
According to Check’s website, it wants everyone in any city to be able to get to their destination within 15 minutes. The company says it distinguishes itself with its focus on data-driven growth, its technology platform, and tailors the needs of both municipalities and its inhabitants. Currently, the app offers more than 3,000 e-mopeds in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Breda, Groningen, Leeuwarden, and Düsseldorf.
Recently, Check raised €10M in a growth round led by Slingshot Ventures with participation from Ponooc, and is looking to expand its team. Check out the opportunities here.
Insify
Founder(s): Koen Thijssen
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $16.5M
Insify aims to transform business insurance by making it simpler, faster, and more affordable for entrepreneurs and SMEs. It has developed an intuitive end-to-end digital customer journey, offering SMEs a business insurance quote in as little as two minutes.
Leveraging data analytics, the platform ensures that coverage is tailored and individually priced for each business. The Dutch startup develops proprietary and tailored insurance products spanning business liability and professional indemnity to occupational disability cover for entrepreneurs and small businesses across various sectors, backed by an insurance company, Munich Re.
Businesses can insure with Insify through direct online signup, embedded partnerships with e-commerce and fintech platforms, and via brokers. The company is already protecting more than 1,500 small businesses in its home market, the Netherlands.
In February, Insify raised €15M in a funding round led by global venture firm Accel, and is now hiring. Check out the vacancies here.
Context Labs
Founder(s): Dan Harple
Founded in: 2013
Total funding: $28M
The US and Amsterdam-based Context Labs aims to provide a trusted data fabric platform for asset-grade data (AGD), using its ImmutablyTM Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, AI-driven asset-grade analytics (AGA) and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights.
The company’s platform product line consists of micro-service level components that enable core data fabric interoperability, big data enterprise integration, and insightful analytics. These components then snap together to produce a variety of industry solutions.
Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organising and contextualising the world’s ESG information, enabling data to become trusted, shared and utilised as AGD to provide insights and solutions through AGA that informs markets.
The company recently raised €24.58M and is looking to expand its team. If this is something that interests you, apply here.
UserGuest
Founder(s): Ahmed Chami, Assil Bernossi, Hicham Benyebdri
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $726K
UserGuest is a travel SaaS company that provides technology, marketing tools and data-driven recommendations to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. The company says, “On the user side, our smart tool improves and customises the User Experience on hotel websites, which convinces them to complete the bookings. And on the owner side, our algorithm detects anomalies and shares actionable insights to maximise your online revenue.”
Recently, the company raised €400K in a funding round and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer.
StudyTube
Founder(s): Homam Karimi, Gerhard Riphagen, Sebastiaan Menheere, Stepan Suvorov
Founded in: 2013
Total funding: $44.8M
StudyTube offers an all-in-one learning platform that helps organisations make employee learning and development easy as well as help employees unlock their full potential. Currently, the company offers learning products with courses from over 1,000 providers.
The company recently raised €26.44M in Series B round to scale up its product development team and boost business through strategic acquisitions in Europe. With 180 people working across offices in Amsterdam, Berlin and Kharkiv (Ukraine), the company aims to expand the team to 300 people and the product team from 60 to 120 people.
You can apply here if this startup interests you.
Productpine
Founder(s): Camiel van Dooren, Vincent Hulshoff, Dimitar Maslarov
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $2.8M
Productpine provides a direct-to-consumer channel with an aim to help brands to sell their products directly to consumers. This direct interaction with consumers has various benefits. Brands can generate higher margins, remain in full control of their brands and have access to valuable insights about customers’ preferences.
Until now, a lot of brands have advertised via Facebook and Google, which is costly – advertisement fees are increasing by 90 per cent annually. Productpine claims that it helps brands to collaborate through its platform and share advertising costs, which results in savings of up to 75 per cent.
The company recently raised €2.5M in its Seed round of funding and is expanding its workforce. Check out the opportunities here.
Crunchr
Founder(s): Dirk Jonker (current CEO)
Founded in: 2014
Total funding: N/A
The smart technology solution Crunchr People Analytics from Focus Orange Technology BV provides employers with tools to increase labour productivity and improve employee satisfaction.
Most organisations have a wealth of personnel data in various systems: payroll, assessment, absenteeism, training and development systems, and employee satisfaction. This data is used for processes, such as recording training and measuring satisfaction. However, Focus Orange believes that more is possible when this data is combined and intelligently analysed.
Crunchr has developed a scalable solution for this, based on mathematics and artificial intelligence. It translates millions of data points into actionable insights into people and organisations, for the past, present and future.
In February, the company raised an undisclosed amount in a Series B round and is looking to hire fresh talents. You can apply here.
Dott
Founder(s): Henri Moissinac, Maxim Romain
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: $175M
Dott is a micro-mobility operator with a mission to free cities with clean rides for everyone. Currently, the platform operates over 40,000 e-scooters in cities including Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, and the UK.
The startup has a staff of 350 people, with its main teams located in Amsterdam, London and Paris. Recently, Dott won two of the biggest micro-mobility tenders in the world, in Paris and in London. Besides, with carbon offsetting, the company claims that it achieved carbon neutrality in January, 2019. And in 2020, it has reduced its carbon footprint by 56 per cent.
Earlier in February, Dott raised €62.2M in Series B extension round to accelerate the rollout of its new e-bikes, invest in product development to improve the user experience and expand into new cities and countries. With this, the company is also expanding its team. Check out the open roles here.
Leyden Labs
Founder(s): Jaap Goudsmit, Koenraad Wiedhaup, Ronald Brus
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $184M
Leyden Labs uses its platform to target commonalities of viral families to protect against many viruses simultaneously as opposed to vaccines that typically protect against a specific virus variant. The platform is built on two concepts: broad protection against known viruses, new variants and newly emerging viruses, and protection at the gate, i.e. in the mucosa (e.g. in the nose and throat).
According to the company, its intranasal product candidates (e.g. nasal sprays) will be self-administrable, providing people with the freedom to protect themselves instantaneously from infection and prevent transmission. Besides, Leyden Labs has a pipeline of mucosal protection products, including PanFlu, which uses CR9114, the only human monoclonal influenza antibody that protects against influenza A and B, in-licensed from Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
In February, Leyden Labs raised $140M (approx €124.17M) in its Series B round to support the development of its platform, product portfolio, and its team. The company has various opportunities right now, check them out here.
Bilihome
Founder(s): Rick Wielens, Margret Huenerbein (current CEO)
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: N/A
Bilihome is delivering a new approach to jaundice care for newborns. It aims to provide natural care and free bonding during jaundice therapy in the first week of life. The company’s wearable phototherapy is designed to support both parents and child as much as possible with their natural care routines.
For example, the wearable device can be worn by the baby during breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact and even when the baby is being carried around.
Recently, the company secured funding from Health Innovations and Oost NL to support the market launch of a smart, wearable light therapy device for jaundice. However, the company didn’t disclose the exact funding figures.
The Pure Goat Company
Founder(s): Frank D.
Founded in: 2018
Total funding: 2018
The Pure Goat Company aims to provide an alternative to cow’s milk-based baby formula. The organically certified formulas of the company are made with full cream goat milk from The Netherlands. According to the company, crucial nutrients have been added to support healthy growth and development, including GOS fibres and Omega-3 DHA from Algae.
Currently, the company’s products are showcased on some of the biggest shelves in the Netherlands – Albert Heijn, Picnic, Etos, and other online supermarkets. Recently, the company secured €1.3M funding from a group of various investors to expand its operation in Germany, the UK, Belgium, and France.
Secfi
Founder(s): Frederik Mijnhardt, Wouter Witvoet (currently serving as Chairman)
Founded in: 2017
Total funding: $707M
Secfi was founded after the founders realised they couldn’t afford to own stock options in a company they worked tirelessly to build. They quickly discovered that they weren’t alone. So, they launched Secfi to help their startup peers understand and make the most of their equity. The company now provides equity planning and financing for startup employees and claims to be trusted by thousands.
Besides, Secfi also provides company-wide education for startups to help their team make the best decision for their own situation, and also provides one-on-one guidance with licensed equity strategists and a set of financing products, enabling employees to own a stake in the company they helped build.
In January, the company raised an undisclosed amount of funding and is expanding its team. Check out the list of their vacancies here.
Elementa Labs
Founder(s): Ahmed Mamdouh Khalil
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $27.5K
Elementa Labs is building a voice assistant app that enables researchers to document their data in the lab instantly into their computers, just by the power of their voice. The app aims to eliminate all the side tasks for researchers in a lab, like documentation, concentration calculations, and others.
Recently, the company raised €25k in pre-seed funding from ASIF Ventures to build an algorithm and train their assistant.
Hello Mentor
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Hello Mentor is a recruitment platform that connects tech students with mentors from tech companies such as Adyen, ING, ASML, and PwC. Once onboarded, Hello Mentor leverages its matchmaking capabilities to match mentors to mentees based on interests, skills and learning goals.
The Dutch startup charges a subscription fee to companies in exchange for access to the platform, social media, and tailored events to widen companies’ employer branding and awareness. In January, the company raised €25k in a pre-Seed round from ASIF Venture to accelerate its product development and is also looking for fresh talents. Apply here.
Deeploy.ML
Founder(s): Bastiaan van de Rakt, Tim Kleinloog, Maarten Stolk, Nick Jetten
Founded in: 2020
Total funding: $1.1M
Deeploy.ML is a software company that makes Machine Learning (ML) deployments accountable by giving explainable AI (XAI) a central place in ML operations (MLOps). The company aims to give humans the power to understand what models are doing and correct automated decisions. These features ensure that AI systems are accountable.
In January, Deeploy raised €0.8M from new VC firm Curiosity. The company has seven open positions across various departments including Growth and Product. Check them here.
Origin
Founder(s): Eli Bressert, Tamar van de Paal
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: $5M
Origin claims to be reshaping the travel industry by providing individual, personalised trips. The membership travel company uses the knowledge of human travel experts and then powers their trip curation with machine learning in one app.
In January, the company raised €4.36M in its Seed round led by Project A, among others, and is looking to strengthen its team. Check out the roles the company is hiring for.
Youseum
Founder(s): Joep Heusschen, Koen Derks
Founded in: 2019
Total funding: €3M
Youseum is Amsterdam’s offline social media experience provider. Users can take ‘eye-catching’ photos for Instagram and create unforgettable content for TikTok, solo or with a group. Its first location opened in 2019 as a pop-up in Amsterdam and has over 35+ ‘unique’ rooms in Amsterdam and Westfield Mall of the Netherlands in Leidschendam. The company says it has now become one of the most sought-after things to do in Amsterdam for visitors and locals alike.
Guests are guided along a 60-75 minute tour (depending on how much content one would like to create!) through the project’s 15 curated spaces. Its rooms are designed to make users’ photos pop, and also to inspire and raise important questions about the world around them.
A regular ticket costs €19.95 while kids between the age of 0-3 years can enter for free. For children between 4-11 years old, they have a discounted ticket of €12.50. Youseum says its tours usually last around 1.5 hours but can go on for as long as the users prefer.
In January, the company raised €3M of growth capital from existing and new private equity and angel investors, and is looking to expand into Europe and the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). If this startup interests you, apply here.