Over the past few years, the overall value of its startup ecosystem in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, has been rising fast.
Dealroom reports that startups based out of Amsterdam have already raised €698M so far in 2022, their second-highest H1 on record. While this is a 75 per cent decrease YoY, H1 2022 is already the second highest H1 for Amsterdam VC Investment, adds the report.
As we complete the ninth month of 2022, we bring you a list of Amsterdam-based startups that raised funding in September. Some of them are also actively hiring.
If you’re in Amsterdam and looking for job opportunities, check out this list. You can also share this article with friends and family who may be on the lookout.
Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names, founding year, and the recent funding raised, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Docflow
Founder(s): Tim Stuart
Founded in: 2019
Latest funding: €1.3M
Docflow specialises in the digitisation of corporate processes and provides tools for streamlining and managing collaborative workflows. The company says it gives users the tools to systematically enhance their workflows, elevate the standard of their publications, and drastically increase team productivity.
Docflow is currently looking for fresh talents in Amsterdam. Check out the vacancies here.
Funxtion
Founder(s): Ernst de Neef, Mendel Witzenhausen
Founded in: 2011
Latest funding: €5.8M
Funxtion enables gym owners to scale up the personalisation of the digital fitness experiences of their members. The company, founded by fitness industry experts, currently supports fitness operators in more than 27 countries with its content platform and digital delivery solutions.
The platform includes built-in customisation tools and delivery device integration software, as well as collection of premium and white-labelled digital fitness content in the form of virtual courses, exercises, and training programmes. Funxtion is used by gyms, hotels, wellness apps, and corporate businesses, and works with major brands, including Fitness First Germany, GoodLife Canada, PureGym UK, and Life Fitness Group Australia.
After its recent funding, the company is looking to expand its workforce and has many open positions. Apply here.
Hellorider
Founder(s): –
Founded in: 2020
Latest funding: $450K
Hellorider is an online bicycle leasing platform that connects employers, car leasing companies, bicycle brands, and bicycle dealers. The company provides a SaaS-enabled platform with lease options for electric bicycles. The platform links bicycle retailers, leasing businesses, employers, and employees. It provides leasing software with modules like an order portal, a service portal, etc. to manage operations.
ChainCraft
Founder(s): Niels van Stralen
Founded in: 2010
Latest funding: €11M
ChainCraft claims that biobased chemistry can be circular and cost-competitive. It helps industries move away from fossil and palm oil with biobased chemicals made from food waste.
The company’s first product range, Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA), can be used in existing and new applications in animal feed, lubricants, plasticisers, polymers, coatings, and flavours and fragrances. The main product, the C6 fatty acid Caproic Acid, can serve as an important intermediate for a C6 chemistry platform.
The company says it will soon reach other purchase agreements with partners in the chemical and animal feed industries, as well as for demonstration and large-scale facilities.
Currently, ChainCraft is hiring for two roles. Check them out here.
Churned
Founder(s): Francisco Blasques, Michiel Doornenbal, Maarten Doornenbal
Founded in: 2019
Latest funding: Undisclosed
The company’s name Churned stands for ‘cancelled’. The aim was to make churn prevention precise, easy to use, and unrestricted. The founders have created the company to support customer management and retention that enables SaaS, B2C, and e-commerce businesses to completely govern their client bases.
Customer success managers, sales representatives, and marketing experts can now collaborate easily with the tools provided by Churned AI to carry out systematic work on customer retention, Customer lifetime value (CLV), and upsell accelerations.
DataSnipper
Founder(s): Jonas Ruyter, Kai Bakker, Maarten Alblas
Founded in: 2017
Latest funding: Undisclosed
DataSnipper provides auditors with an “intelligent” automation platform that increases the quality and efficiency of common audit procedures. The company claims that its automation features, embedded into Excel, empower external auditors to do their work quickly and accurately. The platform is also starting to be used by financial professionals in other domains, including internal audit, financial control, accountancy, and tax.
DataSnipper serviced more than 300,000 auditors in 85+ countries over the course of the previous year and saw a threefold increase in its customer base, which now includes known companies like Deloitte, KPMG, EY, RSM, and BDO.
The company is looking to grow its team. Check out the open positions here.
OMRT
Founder(s): Andreja Andrejevic, Jasper Spiegeler
Founded in: 2018
Latest funding: €5M
OMRT aims to restore balance to our habitats through technology that can predict how we should construct and shape the planet. This vision is driven by the need for society to tackle the housing crisis in a sustainable manner. With more than 30,000 houses created so far, OMRT claims that it already had a considerable influence on the market.
The company works together with leading project developers such as VORM to revolutionise the design process and improve the sector. It enables its customers to make critical design decisions of building projects early on and take sustainability aspects into account from the start.
OMRT is looking to expand its workforce after its recent funding. Here are the positions you can apply for.
Parfumado
Founder(s): Martijn and Floor van Rooy
Founded in: 2017
Latest funding: €3.2M
Parfumado is responding to the (once physical) beauty market shift to online. The company indicated that by 2026, 50 per cent of perfume purchases will be online, whereas, before COVID, this was only 15 per cent. It counts companies like L’Oréal, Rituals, LVMH, and COTY among its partners.
The majority of its users are from the Netherlands and Belgium, claims the company. Currently, it serves three markets – the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK. Parfumado is planning to add two more markets – Germany and Denmark – in the near future. The company has also set its eyes on Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria.
With an international team of around 40 employees, Parfumado is looking to strengthen its team with ten vacancies, including programmers and marketers. Check them out here.
Quatt
Founder(s): Flipse and Marijn Flipse (brothers)
Founded in: 2021
Latest funding: €2M
Quatt designs AI-powered smart hybrid heat pumps to accelerate the decrease of gas consumption and to accelerate the transition to fossil-free heating. The company’s first product is Quatt Hybrid, a smart, all-electric-ready hybrid heat pump for the Dutch market, that can save up to 80 per cent of the gas bill compared to a central heating boiler.
The company is currently hiring for four positions for their Amsterdam office. Check them out here.
Formitable
Founder(s): Milan van de Goor
Founded in: 2017
Latest funding: €8M
Formitable is a growth platform for restaurants that helps over 3,000 clients improve their guest experience and to grow through loyalty and reservation solutions. The company claims to be the market leader in the Netherlands. It is also active throughout Europe, with a strong focus on growth in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.
Top restaurants such as Geranium (awarded 1st place by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants this year), De Librije, and Coda use Formitable’s products. The company’s app, Table, was released in 2021. With over 60,000 active users, Table is fast becoming the leading restaurant app in the Netherlands and Belgium. It will shortly be released in other European nations.
Formitable is welcoming everyone who wants to reshape the restaurant industry. Check out the job opportunities here.
SMYLE
Founder(s): Almar Fernhout, Dennis Kamst, Roger Nefkens
Founded in: 2019
Latest funding: €359K
Each year 1.5 billion plastic toothpaste tubes end up in our landfills and oceans. These tubes do not dissolve and cannot be recycled. Additionally, we brush our teeth twice a day with microplastics, foaming agents like SLS, preservatives, dyes and many other harsh chemical additives. This is what SMYLE is aiming to change.
The company has developed toothpaste in a tablet, completely plastic-free, using only natural, vegan ingredients, and without gluten. Customers also get a travel kit and a glass bottle to store the mints for free and can reorder them in compostable reusable paper packages.
Symphony
Founder(s): Henk Bout, Rob Overman, Jose Evers, Bauke Freiburg
Founded in: 2021
Latest funding: €6.5M
Symphony aims to introduce the works of famous composers like Mahler, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven to a broad global audience. Its subscribers will receive front-row seats, backstage passes, and behind-the-scenes tales of the music, as well as exclusive interviews with soloists and conductors.
The platform has been built by Videodock, the company responsible for live streaming the Dutch parliament. A beta test has been running in a limited number of countries since June.
Instant Commerce
Founder(s): Coen van Hees, Sam Van Hees (brothers) and their friend Doeke Leeuwis
Founded in: 2022
Latest funding: €5.4M
Instant Commerce is a frontend-as-a-service platform for e-commerce brands. The platform enables brands to build a ‘highly’ functional and engaging headless webshop without the need for technical expertise or an expensive development team, thanks to its no-code approach.
The company’s platform utilises APIs to interface with a wide range of platforms, including Shopify, Storyblok, Algolia, and more. The headless strategy (separation of the frontend and backend) has allowed companies to meet the demands of today’s customers, including quick site speed, omnichannel presence, a distinctive shopping experience, and more.
After its recent funding, Instant Commerce says it will use the proceeds to double the team from 30 to 60 members. Check out the opportunities here.
Phosphoenix
Founder(s): Prof. Pieter Roelfsema, Prof. Xing Chen, Dr Bert Monna
Founded in: 2019
Latest funding: Undisclosed
Phosphoenix aims to enable blind people to regain functional vision, even after extensive damage to the eye or optic nerve. It is developing a prosthesis to stimulate nerve cells in parts of the brain that are involved in visual perception. The prosthesis stimulates nerve cells artificially by inserting electrodes into the brain using a specialised probe. One electrode stimulated creates the sense of a dot of light, while several electrodes stimulated can make recognised patterns.
In the finished product, the patient will put on a set of spectacles that have a built-in camera, allowing them to view a condensed version of the outside world through the electrical stimulation of brain patterns.
Timberhub
Founder(s): Ion Sergis, Dimitris Pagkratis, Giannis Androutselis, Thomas Androutselis
Founded in: 2022
Latest funding: €5.8M
Timberhub is a digital B2B marketplace that aims to digitise the offline timber industry by connecting manufacturers and construction companies with sawmills. Parallelly, Timberhub also manages procurement, payments, and transportation of timber materials through its marketplace.
The Dutch company aims to utilise the opportunity as the demand for timber is expected to double in the next ten years, fueled by the environmental benefits of the material used in the construction industry.
Timberhub equips manufacturers with the tools to manage and grow their business while enabling sawmills to expand their network beyond their traditional buyers. Currently, Timberhub serves customers across 15 countries in Europe, ranging from small manufacturers to large construction companies.
BRXS
Founder(s): Amrita Ramsaransing, Filip Nuytemans
Founded in: 2021
Latest funding: €3M
BRXS aims to make the traditional real estate investment segment more accessible to everyone. Customers can invest directly in the rental properties of their choice on BRXS’ website, starting at €100.
They can develop a real estate portfolio, generate income through rentals, and gain from potential value growth over time. Investors don’t have to deal with any hassles because they can easily maintain track of their assets in their BRXS portfolio and receive clear updates on the properties.
