During the initial COVID-19 days, businesses plunged into uncertainty owing to various reasons. However, some innovative startups globally have reacted faster and have been critical in helping countries shift towards fully digital. Even though the pandemic is far from over, the businesses and industries have adjusted themselves to the new normal.
In the Netherlands, startups are the number one job growth engine accounting for higher job growth than any individual sector. In fact, the Dutch startup ecosystem has shown strong resilience during COVID-19, claims a report.
We are into the fourth month of 2021 now, and the Dutch startups are likely to witness a strong hiring uptick as the business and revenues bounce back, with growth for some even surpassing pre-pandemic levels.
On this note, we have compiled a list of 10 Amsterdam-based startups that have raised capital in Q1 2021 for expansion and are hiring fresh talents right now. If your friends are looking for jobs, do share this article with them.
Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names, founded year, and the total funding raised, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Otrium
Founder/s: Max Klijnstra and Milan Daniels
Founded year: 2015
Funding: €142M
Otrium is an online fashion outlet marketplace that allows fashion brands to open an online outlet with minimal effort and all the advantages.
Through their platform, brands can sell both outlet collections and previous collections, where all items remain their property until they are sold.
Recently, the Amsterdam-based company raised $120M (approx €102.27M) in a Series C round of funding co-led by BOND and Index Ventures. You can click here to apply for the job that suits your requirements.
Fixico
Founder/s: Derk Roodhuyzen de Vries, Mark van Laar
Founded year: 2014
Funding: €19.3M
The company is on a mission on reinventing the automotive damage repair space, both in the consumer and business markets.
The Dutch company offers a digital platform that handles car damage repairs for drivers, insurers, and fleet owners and enables smart ‘matchmaking’ between types of car damage and body repair shops.
Through the platform, Fixico gives access to a marketplace with a network of over 2,500 body repair shops across six countries. Last month, the company secured a €5M extension to its Series A round funding, closing the total at €12M led by Autotech Ventures.
Click here to find out about the openings.
felyx
Founder/s: Maarten Poot, and Quinten Selhorst
Founded year: 2016
Funding: €27.4M
felyx offers shared electric scooters (mopeds) through its app, which is available for both Android and iOS users. As of now, it offers ride-sharing services in eight Dutch cities – Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Delft, Haarlem, Groningen, Eindhoven, and Den Bosch.
Back in 2019, the company expanded to Belgium and is now considering France and Germany as its potential future market. A few days back, felyx secured €24M in its series A investment round led by De Hoge Dennen Capital, the investment vehicle for the De Rijcke family, and current major shareholder and entrepreneur Anne-Marie Rakhorst.
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Creative Fabrica
Founder/s: Anca Stefan and Roemie Hillenaar
Founded year: 2016
Funding: €6.9M
Creative Fabrica is a subscription-based marketplace for fonts, graphics, and crafts designs. The Amsterdam company is on a mission to improve and change the way people consume digital assets.
The company has over 1 million users, and it brought in sales from 175 countries in December 2020.
Even though it is based out of Amsterdam, the company generates the majority of its revenue in the United States and Canada. In January, the company raised €5.76M in its Series A funding round led by Felix Capital.
Click here to find out about the openings.
Quin
Founder/s: Bart Malenstein
Founded year: 2014
Funding: €25M
Quin provides an AI digital platform that provides comprehensive personalised medical insight to consumers and general practitioners (GP), from symptoms and medical complaints to diagnosis and indication of the medical condition.
Through its platform, the Amsterdam-based company aims to improve general health awareness, reduce unnecessary doctors’ visits, improve overall diagnostic accuracy, and cut healthcare costs.
In the Netherlands, there are currently 11 Quin Doctors practices with 50,000 affiliated patients. The company aims to grow the doctor’s count to 50 in the next couple of years.
Click here to find out if your profile fits the company’s requirements.
Lalaland
Founder/s: Michael Musandu and Ugnius Rimsa
Founded year: 2019
Funding: €625K
Lalaland leverages neural networks to generate artificial full-body fashion models. Based out of Amsterdam, the company is disrupting e-commerce apparel webshops by letting shoppers turn their online shopping experience into a personalised and customised shopping spree.
Click here to find out if your profile fits the company’s requirements.
Crisp
Founder/s: Tom Peeters, Michiel Roodenburg, and Eric Klaassen
Founded year: 2018
Funding: €46.5M
Crisp is one of the startups that’s capitalising on the online grocery shopping boom. It is an app-only supermarket for ultra-fresh food. Voted as one of the “Coolest Dutch Brands,” the marketplace stocks more than 2000 products from more than 650 farmers, growers, and makers.
It runs on proprietary software to enable zero inventory and negative working capital. Notably, the company was selected to participate in the Techleap Rise program.
Last month, the Amsterdam company raised €30M in its Series B round of funding led by European investor Target Global, joined by Keen Venture Partners.
Click here to find out if your profile fits the company’s requirements.
Dexter Energy
Founder/s: Luuk Veeken
Founded year: 2017
Funding: €2M
Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy helps energy companies in Europe to make their portfolio more sustainable and increase their profitability through AI-based forecasting and optimisations.
It was selected for Rockstart’s smart energy batch 2018. It works with energy companies like Axpo, Greenchoice, NieuweStroom, and Pure Energie.
Recently, the company raised €2M in a Series A funding round led by Newion – an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in European B2B software companies. The round also witnessed the participation of existing investors PDENH, Stephen Asplin, and Andreas Gelfort.
Click here to find out about the openings.
RheoCube
Founder: Dr Eric Lorenz
Founded year: 2015
Funding: €1.6M
RheoCube is a virtual lab for R&D departments to help scientists predict the physical behaviour of complex fluids.
The virtual lab is used daily by R&D scientists, experimental chemists, formulators, and process engineers to help them better understand the future behaviour of their complex fluids systems.
Based out of Amsterdam, the company also offers integrated cloud computing so that one does not invest in heavy computer clusters.
Recently, the company secured over $2M (approx €1.6M) in a fresh round of funding co-led by investors including Holland Capital and Join Capital.
Click here to find out about the openings.
The Selection Lab
Founder: Lotte Welten and Joeri Everaers
Founded year: 2018
Funding: €300K
The Amsterdam company offers scientifically validated assessments to select the best possible candidates for a job.
The Selection Lab software enables organisations to determine which combinations of characteristics – ranging from personality traits to intelligence – are important for success within their specific organisation.
The Dutch company now works in different sectors, ranging from recruitment and selection agencies to security companies. The Selection Lab aims to increase the quality and diversity within firms by making the selection process more objective.
Recently, the company secured €300K in a fresh round of funding from Arches Capital to further develop its assessments and platform.
The startup is currently hiring, and the open positions are filling in fast. You can apply here.
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