Amsterdam, famend for its progressive ethos and dedication to sustainability, has change into a fertile floor for startups looking for to handle urgent societal and environmental challenges.
The creativity and dedication of those founders haven’t solely empowered their startups into the highlight however have additionally made Amsterdam a worldwide hub for transformative concepts.
Though every startup has a novel mission and trade, all of them share a standard purpose – innovation with function.
Having mentioned that these startups aren’t merely conceptualising concepts however are actively showcasing the tangible impression of their expertise.
In consequence, they’re garnering consideration from buyers who’re inclined in the direction of supporting disruptive applied sciences that redefine established norms.
At current, a bunch of Amsterdam-based startups are actively engaged in fundraising campaigns, looking for capital injections to speed up their development trajectories.
This listing has been compiled with inputs from StartupAmsterdam’s collaboration with Golden Egg Verify and Startup Fountain.
Amsterdam-based Golden Egg Verify, a startup analyst helps preserve monitor of all startups, scale-ups, and VC offers. It gives a web-based instrument to evaluate corporations’ potential, feasibility, and investor readiness.
The corporate goals to make the Netherlands the No. 1 startup ecosystem in Europe by offering knowledge, insights, and networks throughout the (Dutch) tech and VC ecosystem.
Based by Friso Schmid, Startup Fountain is an open fundraising platform providing free introductions for startups and buyers. It costs no success charges and the sign-up is freed from cost too.
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Founder/s: Martijn Tjho and Frans Biegstraaten
Quantity Elevating: €2,000,000
BIYU gives rental gear providers for gardening, events, cleansing, and kitchen for a set month-to-month charge.
The corporate supplies entry to a number of merchandise from main manufacturers, together with energy instruments from Festool, DJ units from Pioneer, gardening instruments from STIHL, high-pressure washers from Kärcher, and extra.
The corporate’s providing helps construct a round future, permitting increasingly more folks to entry, as a substitute of shopping for, the merchandise they often want.
Founder/s: Khazar Allahverdiyev, Farid Muradov and Khalig Abbasov
Quantity Elevating: €200,000
Peagle gives a no-code supply administration software program resolution.
The Amsterdam-based firm supplies a platform that empowers companies to create tailor-made supply programs, optimise routes, improve buyer experiences, and guarantee well timed deliveries.
The Dutch firm goals to revolutionise last-mile supply administration for companies of all sizes.
Founder/s: Mikhail Sadovnikov
Quantity Elevating: €100,000
Based mostly out of Amsterdam, Hounder supplies AI-powered notification providers for brand new house listings within the Netherlands.
The corporate has developed a complicated house notification service utilizing customized algorithms and AI filtering for folks looking for housing and relocation within the Netherlands.
Founder/s: Raymond Alves and Johan Lanen
Quantity Elevating: €1,500,000
Magic Lane is a software program platform that provides Maps, Location, and navigation providers.
The Amsterdam startup combines qualitative maps and knowledge sources with sensible algorithms, permitting micro-mobility corporations to rapidly and effectively construct personalised providers.
The platform does it by leveraging Open Avenue Maps and a few 2000 different open-source map sources and stay knowledge sources.
The corporate additionally gives numerous software program growth kits (SDKs), permitting builders to make use of their front-end and map kinds per working system – iOS, Android, Javascript, QT, Linux, Flutter, and C++.
Founder/s: Brad Vanstone and Margot Vandevoort
Quantity Elevating: €800,000
Willicroft supplies plant-based cheese for dairy cheese lovers. The Amsterdam-based firm has created numerous plant-based cheese merchandise and claims they style actual.
As well as, the corporate goals to innovate to scale back its carbon footprint and assist the dairy trade change extra sustainably.
It’s the first firm in Europe to be awarded a B Corp certification for its manufacturing of other cheese merchandise and thus helps this ambition.
Founder/s: Monica Larrazabal, Ruben Manufacturers, David Vermaas
Quantity Elevating: €1M to €5M
SeaO2 is an ocean carbon elimination firm dedicated to decreasing carbon dioxide within the ambiance by harnessing the potential of the oceans on a gigaton scale.
The Amsterdam-based firm makes use of electrochemical oceanic carbon seize expertise to deal with water, seize its CO2 content material, and return the handled water to the floor layer of the ocean to proceed absorbing extra CO2.
Founder/s: Anne Marieke Eveleens, Francis Zoet and Saskia Studer
Quantity Elevating: €1M to €5M
Based mostly out of Amsterdam, The Nice Bubble Barrier is on a mission to take away tonnes of plastics
from rivers globally.
The Bubble Barrier is a curtain of air bubbles created by pumping compressed air by a perforated tube that’s positioned on the backside of the canal.
The rising bubbles kind an upward present, which brings plastic to the floor of the water. The
Bubble Barrier works 24×7 and doesn’t intrude with delivery or wildlife.
Founder/s: Nancy Shenouda and Pierre Ouellette
Quantity Elevating: €1M to €5M
Tradesnest helps corporations broaden internationally by placing them involved with the precise enterprise companions of their goal market.
Via its B2B platform, manufacturers can current their merchandise to retailers and distributors, and make direct gross sales to broaden and improve their gross sales. It’s with out an enormous funding of money and time.
Tradesnest is operational in over 80 markets and is backed by Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland, Hearst, Atomico Angel, and Rabobank.
Founder/s: Efil Bengisu Saygı and Rıza Özdülger
Quantity Elevating: €500K to €1M
Gelectric specialised in electrical retrofit options for previous vessels to assist the maritime trade change into extra sustainable and greener.
The platform helps determine alternatives to enhance the vitality effectivity of the ships, along with bringing different advantages, together with decreasing working prices, bettering the fleet’s environmental efficiency, and enhancing the corporate’s repute.
The corporate is on a mission to create a future through which the maritime trade is powered by clear, renewable vitality and outfitted with the newest instruments and applied sciences to enhance security, effectivity, and reliability.
Founder/s: Paul de Kuyper, Julio Pijnappel, Mark Teisman and Erik de Kuyper
Quantity Elevating: €1M to €5M
Gigstarter is a stay music ecosystem that connects artists and bookers straight with no hidden charges.
The platform is designed to empower impartial musicians and make it doable for anybody to be a booker.
The Amsterdam firm has developed a clear platform that enables bookers to guide artists straight with out paying any commissions.