69 Best Startups in Netherlands to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Netherlands

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There are 563 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $12.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $174.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$37.0m

Money raised

Gemalto is an Amsterdam-based electronics company that has been acquired by Thales.

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$1.5b

Money raised

Faire is a curated boutique wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands.

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11

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$46.4m

Money raised

Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.

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7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

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4

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$165.0m

Money raised

Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

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Basilisk is a Delft-based manufacturer of self-healing concrete and concrete healing products founded in 2015 by Hendrik Jonkers and Bart van der Woerd

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$12.5m

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A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

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$1.9b

Money raised

Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.

6

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$135.8m

Money raised

Weaviate is a cloud-native vector database and search engine.

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11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

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Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.

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3

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$16.8k

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Undagrid develops and provides a wide area networking technology with object tracking and tracing functionality for the logistics, maritime, and aviation sectors.

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9

Funding Rounds

$93.5m

Money raised

Hiber is an Amsterdam-based satellite IoT network provider offering global connectivity through the company's Hiberband network.

6

Funding Rounds

$138.2m

Money raised

Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.

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9

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$359.9m

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Payhawk is a provider of a financial system that combines credit cards, payments, and expenses into one experience.

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3

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$73.0m

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Fourthline, founded in 2017 by Krik Gunning and Chris van Straeten, provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-based compliance and know your customer (KYC) platform for financial technology companies.

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7

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$1.2b

Money raised

MessageBird is a messaging company offering a communications platform as a service.

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2

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$5.4m

Money raised

The 3D NFT Marketplace for Building the Metaverse

8

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$357.3m

Money raised

U.S-based company providing real-time cyber security & visibility for industrial networks.

2

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$9.8m

Money raised

dealroom is a Netherlands-based company founded by Yoram Wijngaarde.

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3

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$475.0m

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Receivables and Treasury cloud software, powered by AI to optimize working capital.

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2

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$52.3m

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The Protein Brewery is a Breda-based developer and manufacturer animal-free-based protein based on fungi fermentation processes.

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$750.0k

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WyzeTalk is a developer of an employee engagement platform to help companies drive digital transformation for operational efficiency with employees.

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9

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$55.4m

Money raised

EclecticIQ is cyber security software company based in Amsterdam. They provide a Threat Intelligence Platform for threat analysts to perform cyber investigations.

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QuiX is a company that makes a room temperature photonic quantum processor based on silicon nitride waveguides.

1

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$190.0m

Money raised

A company making Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as an alternative to using fossil fuels for air crafts. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1

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$20.0m

Money raised

Tool for digital design, enabling designers to share and collaborate on their projects.

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$9.0m

Money raised

A company developing carbon dioxide (CO2) reducing technology and converting CO2 and sunlight into organic compounds. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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$26.0m

Money raised

DCPrime is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

1

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$20.0k

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Skytree is an Amsterdam-based company offering direct air capture technology for carbon capture and storage use.

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$16.0m

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A pharmaceutical company that develops topical products to treat rare diseases

3

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$131.3m

Money raised

Cibus is a company founded in 2001 by Rory Riggs, Peter Beetham and Greg Gocal.

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3

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$7.3m

Money raised

AxonIQ is an Utrecht-based developer of a software platform for developing large-scale, event-driven systems and applications based on microservices architecture.

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$12.8m

Money raised

Kiadis Pharma is a biotechnology company developing stem cell regenerative medicine treatments for blood cancers and blood disorders.

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$2.0m

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The all-in-one checkout platform for B2B merchants and marketplaces

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2

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$13.7m

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Dexter Energy is an Amsterdam-based company developing an AI tool for energy forecasting as a service to reduce costs on the electricity grid.

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$7.0m

Money raised

Gadeta is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies for treating cancer.

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$3.8m

Money raised

Owlin is a tech company that develops analysis algorithms for porfolio managers, founded by Sjoerd Leemhuis.

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Qu & Co is a company that offers quantum-computational chemistry as-a-service.

2

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$6.7m

Money raised

DyeCoo Textile Systems is a Weesp-based chemical company developing a water-free and chemical-free textile dyeing solution from waste CO2.

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3

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$28.7m

Money raised

SnappCar is a Utretch-based company that has developed a peer-to-peer carsharing platform designed to provide an alternative to car ownership.

11

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$446.8m

Money raised

bunq is a mobile-first, open source neobank founded in 2012 by Ali Niknam.

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4

Funding Rounds

$211.3m

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Dott was founded in 2018 and is an Amsterdam-based company that provides a scooter sharing system.

6

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$62.1m

Money raised

Crown bioscience is a company that is focused on research, drug discovery and development for the treatment of cancer and diabetes.

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$16.0m

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GFBiochemicals produces levulinic acid and it's derivatives directly from biomass with proprietary technology.

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$93.8m

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VarmX is a Netherlands-based biotechnology company manufacturing therapeutic proteins to restore blood clotting in bleeding patients.

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6

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$171.3m

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Friss is a company that develops fraud detection and risk assessment software for P&C Insurance companies.

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$18.0m

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Hubs, formerly 3Dhubs, is an Amsterdam-based company founded in 2013.

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$1.1b

Money raised

Mollie is a fintech company providing payment solutions for more than 55.000 entrepreneurs all over the globe. We believe in the strength of simplicity. With this simplicity, we want to challenge the standard in payments by testing the boundaries of tech, by always looking one step further, and by providing a strong but simple API to advance your business opportunities. At Mollie we strive to help all entrepreneurs: from a small webshop owner who is taking a first step into the e-commerce landscape to corporate-like organizations trying to change the world. We want to help our customers grow, increase their productivity, and reach their business goals by providing them with the most efficient money management. Grow wherever you want, and don't let borders define your business! We provide all major payments methods such as Mastercard, VISA, Amex, PayPal, iDEAL, Bancontact, Bitcoin, SEPA Direct Debit, Cartes Bancaires, EPS, Giropay, SOFORT Banking and more to help you grow locally and globally.

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Funding Rounds

$16.3m

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Aether biomedical is a medical robotics startup from Poland solving the critical problem of the lack of a bidirectional communication between assistive therapy devices and the human body,

3

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$38.0m

Money raised

Sencrop is a French agricultural technology company that produces networked agro-meteorological stations.

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3

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$18.0m

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Topl is a stablecoin cryptocurrency pegged to products and utilities founded in 2017 by Christopher Georgen, James Aman, Nicholas Edmonds and Kim Raath.

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$59.3m

Money raised

Apollo Agriculture is a company in Kenya.

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3

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$12.3m

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Impraise is a company providing a web and mobile application for sharing feedback between colleagues for performance and development initiatives.

3

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$11.7m

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A company developing and manufacture laser and MRI-guided technology products

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1

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$12.5m

Money raised

Clinical Research & Services

7

Funding Rounds

$49.1m

Money raised

Fairphone is a sustainable, modular consumer electronics founded in 2013 by Tessa Wernink, Bas van Abel and Miguel Ballester.

5

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$144.8m

Money raised

AI-driven hardware & software platform for edge computing.

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1

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$2.2m

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Cybersprint empowers cybersecurity professionals to prioritise mitigation of vulnerabilities by mapping their organisation's online footprint and digital attack surface. We offer full visibility using real-time, continuous and automated digital footprint detection, from risk to remediation. We monitor your brand, infrastructure, VIPs, third parties and more. Our integrated AI correlates dozens of data sources and uses a multitude of scanners, making risk relevant. Cybersprint's platform allows you to manage threats such as third-party risk, phishing, brand abuse, data theft and more. Our zero-touch platform is operable in minutes and can be complemented with off-the-shelf or bespoke services for your security programme. Specialties: Application Security, Data Breach Prevention, Data Monitoring, Data Security, Email Security, Incident & Breach Response, IoT Security, Machine Learning, Network Security, Phishing, Risk Management, Security Mgmt, Threat Management & Intelligence, Vulnerability Assessment & Mgmt, Website Security

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$258.0m

Money raised

Backbase is a digital banking platform for businesses founded in 2003 by Gerbert Kaandorp.

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$2.4m

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Online platform that allows you to rent items from your neighbors.

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$18.5m

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Black Bear is a Netherlands-based company focusing on producing carbon black by extracting it from waste tires and converting the remains of the tires into oil and gas.

3

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$302.8m

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AM-Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing recombinant human Alkaline Phosphatase (AP) therapeutics, which have the potential to treat patients with Acute Kidney Injury, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Hypophosphatasia.

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$16.7m

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AI-powered medical imaging solution.

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$7.2m

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Overstory.ai, formerly known as 20tree.ai, is a vertical SaaS company working to mitigate wildfires.

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A company developing AI-software for urban indoor farming management.

12

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$460.5m

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finn is a company founded in 2017.

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$3.8m

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Blendle was an online journalism platform acquired by Cafeyn in 2020.

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11

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$278.0m

Money raised

ZOLA Electric designs, manufactures, installs and sells solar backed systems for homes mainly in the rural and off-grid areas in Africa.

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$10.0m

Money raised

Amberscript is building SaaS solutions that enable users to automatically transform audio and video into text and subtitles using speech recognition.

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