The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021 has officially begun this week, and it’s digital this time! Even though it’s remote, CES aims to do what it does the best, showing off the latest innovations, discoveries, and ideas in the field of tech. To reiterate, CES is an annual trade show organised by the Consumer Technology Association in January at Las Vegas.
From the Netherlands, more than 90 of the brightest and most forward-thinking startups are participating in the CES 2021 to explore the power of technology and collaboration in solving societal challenges worldwide. Out of 90 Dutch startups, we have compiled a list of 9 startups from Amsterdam participating in this year.
Amberscript
Founder/s: Peter-Paul de Leeuw, Thomas Dieste and Timo Behrens
Founded year: 2017
Funding: NA
Amberscript is an Amsterdam-based startup that created a specialised AI-enabled speech-to-text engine to ease the efforts of manual transcription. Its SaaS software enables users to automatically transcribe audio and video into text using speech recognition.
The company’s platform is used by journalists, scientists, students, doctors, lawyers, and many others all over the world. The company deploys its AI algorithms and its web text editor for enhanced accuracy.
BrainCreators
Founder/s: Gerbert Kaandorp, Jasper Wognum, Peter Eijk
Founded year: 2016
Funding: €50K
BrainCreators, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) scaleup delivers digital inspectors for the construction, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors that automate a repetitive task, enabling businesses to scale effectively and cost-efficiently.
LALALand
Founder/s: Michael Musandu, Ugnius Rimsa
Founded year: 2019
Funding: N/A
Based out of Amsterdam, LALALand uses neural networks to generate images of artificial humans. It is disrupting e-commerce apparel webshops by letting shoppers turn their online shopping experience into a personalised and customised shopping spree.
Through its platform, LALALand offers brands, a vast library of age, size, and ethnic-inclusive models so that online shoppers can see themselves in the latest apparel as per their requirements.
Swipeguide
Founder/s: Daan Assen, Willemijn Schneyder
Founded year: 2015
Funding: €1.3M
The Amsterdam startup Swipeguide aims to simplify work with digital instructions, getting rid of papers, and PDFs in the process. The company aims to eliminate useless instructions and delivers the most intuitive way to standardise work in the manufacturing industry.
Hiber
Founder/s: Coen Janssen, Erik Wienk, Erik Wienk, Ernst Peter Hovinga, Ernst Peter Hovinga, Laurens Groenendijk, Maarten Engelen.
Founded year: 2016
Funding: €28.2M
Hiber, a space-based IoT startup from Amsterdam was founded by a team of satellite experts and tech entrepreneurs. The company is on a mission to launch and run a nano-satellite constellation in space.
The space startup aims to help with tackling climate change, growing crops efficiently, managing natural resources better, and protecting wild animals. In this regard, the company launched HiberHilo, its first end-to-end solution for Oil & Gas Well Integrity Monitoring. In fact, it is the world’s first subscription service for IoT-enabled remote Oil/Gas Well monitoring. On the other hand, Hiber received part of the European Innovation Council Accelerator’s grant of €278 million and direct equity investment.
Aectual
Founder/s: Hedwig Heinsman
Founded year: 2017
Funding: €1.8M
Aectual develops industrial digital production technologies and software tools to create customisable and affordable building solutions. Meaning, the platform enables rapid, high-quality customised production of 3D printed architectural products at an industrial scale more affordably and sustainably.
Closing the loop
Founder/s: Joost de Kluijver
Founded year: 2012
Funding: €400K
Closing the Loop, the Amsterdam startup offers users, buyers, and sellers of devices an easy way to compensate for the waste of the product purchase and use. The company collects scrap phones (in developing countries, at the end of their useful lives) on behalf of customers, thereby compensating their IT devices.
Olisto
Founder/s: Arjen Noorbergen, Tom Meijeraan
Founded year: 2015
Total funding: €2.3M
Olisto was founded as a spin-off of Europe’s leading smart home platform www.quby.com. The Amsterdam-based startup enables smart things, apps, and services to work together. The platform lets users control different products, make complex scenarios, and add voice-control from within the app.
Neurocast
Founder/s: Levie Hofstee
Founded year: 2017
Total funding: NA
Neurocast specialises in passively monitoring patients, helping doctors, researchers, and patients to better understand the course and cause of chronic diseases such as MS, Alzheimer’s, or cancer. Neurocast is GDPR & HIPAA compliant and ISO 27001 certificated.
Squad Mobility
CEO: Robert Hoevers
Founded year: 2019
Total funding: NA
Amsterdam-based Squad Mobility develops new urban mobility concepts. The company has already developed an affordable solar city car called Squad, aimed at enabling daily suburban mobility in a hassle-free manner.
OPNT
Founder/s: Jeroen Koelemeij, Marco Gorter
Founded year: 2014
Total funding: €3.8M
OPNT is a spin-off company of LaserLaB at VU University Amsterdam. Backed by venture capital firm Cottonwood Technology Fund, OPNT is on a mission to relocate all current GPS-based services to ‘from the sky’ to the telecommunication network. The solutions of OPNT integrate GPS-quality timing and beyond with the flexibility and reliability of standard telecom equipment.
Edge Technologies
Founder/s: Coen van Oostrom
Founded year: 2018
Funding: N/A
Edge Technologies, a company by OVG Real Estate, develops the most sustainable office buildings in the world. The company is on a mission to build an environment greener, smarter, and healthier with a user-centered approach that intuitively learns from use.
