Do you hate standing in line as much as I do? Tiqets, one of the Netherlands’ prolific scale-ups, solves just that. Today, conveniently one day before The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, they’ve announced their Series B. It’s a US$ 17 million investment from a consortium of investors headed by HPE Growth Capital. The investment will enable the three-year-old company to scale globally and strengthen its “leading position in making culture and entertainment more accessible”.
Fastest growing tech company in the Netherlands
Tiqets has grown exponentially since the company’s founding in 2014. The company has 75 employees and, in addition to its head office in Amsterdam, has teams in New York, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, and Rome. This growth has led to the company winning the Dutch Tech5 award two years in a row. In addition, Tiqets has been again nominated for the European Tech5 award, the award for Europe’s fastest growing tech companies. The winner will be announced at the TNW Conference in Amsterdam, tomorrowThursday 18 May.