The adoption of technology across industries is booming than ever before. Eventually, we are witnessing more and more investments flowing into the B2B tech software startups in order to solve the accountability, productivity, and management issues faced by enterprises all over the world. Talking about the B2B software startups, the Netherlands is home to numerous such startups, thanks to its policies that ensure improved quality of life and ultra-progressiveness.
Most funded B2B software in the Netherlands
A report titled ‘Dutch State of SaaS Q1 2020’ by Knight VC lists the most funded private B2B software startups. The report notes that 33% of the Dutch B2B software companies have secured investments. And, 35% of these companies are based out of Amsterdam. Here, we list the top 8 B2B software companies in the Netherlands that secured funding in the first quarter of this year.
GitLab
Founder/s: Dmitriy Zaporozhets, Sid Sijbrandij
Founded year: 2014
Funding: €394 million
GitLab is an open core company, which develops software for the software development lifecycle that is deployed by over 100,000 organisations. It is one of the most widely used DevOps collaboration platforms that change the way development, security, as well as ops teams, collaborate and build software. GitLab helps these teams reduce the cycle time to minutes, reduce the development costs, and enhance developer productivity.
Bitfury
Founder/s: Valery Vavilov
Founded year: 2011
Funding: €182 million
Amsterdam-based Bitfury is a leading security and infrastructure provider for bitcoin and blockchain. The Dutch unicorn develops blockchain solutions for organisations, businesses, governments, and individuals. It provides solutions such as bitcoin mining, asset management, blockchain security, data centre cooling, and cryptocurrency compliance. Last year, Bitfury announced the launch of an AI division that will work with its portfolio of blockchain services.
Snow Software
Founder/s: Axel Kling
Founded year: 1997
Funding: €109 million
Snow Software is a global leader in technology intelligence solutions. It ensures that expenditure on all forms of technology is optimised to get the maximum value. Snow Software’s platform is used by over 4,000 organisations all over the world to provide complete visibility, minimise regulatory risk, and optimise spend and usage. Its local offices and regional support centres ensure to provide unparalleled results to both partners and customers.
AMCS Group
Founder/s: Jimmy Martin
Founded year: 2003
Funding: €105 million
AMCS is a supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology software for resource management, recycling, and waste collection industry. Its SaaS platform provides industry-specific Enterprise Management Software, Mobile Workforce, Digital Engagement, Vehicle Technology, Intelligent Optimisation, and Analytics solutions. The platform of ACMS is inspired by global market trends and delivers end-to-end standardisation and optimisation of all business processes.
Miro
Founder/s: Andrey Khusid, Oleg Shardin
Founded year: 2011
Funding: €68.2 million
Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform that has been built to suit modern work culture letting collocated, distributed and remote teams to collaborate and communicate across tools, formats, channels, and time zones. It has powerful collaborative features that eliminate the constraints of meeting space, physical location, and whiteboard. It works with the mission to empower teams to come up with the next big thing.
MessageBird
Founder/s: Adriaan Mol, Robert Vis
Founded year: 2011
Funding: €54.7 million
Amsterdam-based cloud communications provider MessageBird offers voice, SMS and chat solutions enabling developers and enterprises to communicate virtually with customers anywhere in the world. This company services over 15,000 customers enterprises including fast-growing startups such as Uber and enterprises including SAP and Lufthansa Airlines to their customers all over the world with its most reliable and fastest SMS, voice and chat APIs.
Anywhere365 (Workstreampeople)
Founder/s: Gijs Geurts
Founded year: 2011
Funding: €60 million
Workstreampeople is an independent software supplier. This company is the developer and supplier of Anywhere365 UCC (Unified Contact Centre). It is a communication and dialogue management platform for Skype for Business and Microsoft Lync. With the Anywhere365 platform, Workstreampeople is taking the initiative towards the next generation of Collaborative Communication platforms. The company provides solutions that let organisations improve both their operational efficiency and business results.
Pyramid Analytics
Founder/s: Avi Perez, Herbert Ochtman, Omri Kohl
Founded year: 2008
Funding: €60.5 million
Pyramid Analytics is the next-generation business intelligence platform based in Amsterdam. It is a global leader offering an analytics platform that helps companies compete as world-class data-driven organisations. The company has signed hundreds of new customers and announced strategic relationships with leading partners. Its enterprise-grade platform can be deployed instantly across the organisation to provide immediate visibility into the operational data and make dramatic business changes.
Main image picture credits: MessageBird
