Netherlands startup ecosystem
The Netherlands punches well above its weight in European tech. Amsterdam's English-speaking, internationally minded workforce and progressive regulation have fostered leadership in sustainable tech, fintech, and marketplace platforms. Strong connectivity, a high quality of life, and government support for R&D make it a magnet for both founders and global talent. The directory currently lists 124 organisations across 16 cities.
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Mathijs de Wit
Managing Partner at Newion, the Amsterdam B2B software venture firm. He leads early-stage investments in enterprise SaaS across the Benelux, DACH and Nordic regions, taking active board roles with founders during the critical first phase after a seed or Series A round.
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MessageBird
MessageBird is an Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform (CPaaS) that provides APIs for SMS, voice, chat, and email, enabling businesses to communicate with customers across any channel from a single platform. The company rebranded parts of its offering under Bird and has served over 25,000 enterprise clients including Uber, SAP, and HelloFresh. MessageBird competes with Twilio and has raised over $1 billion in funding, making it one of the Netherlands' most valuable tech companies.
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Michiel Kotting
Partner at Northzone based in Amsterdam, focused on enterprise software, AI and infrastructure investments across Europe. He previously invested at Accel and brings an operating background to early-stage portfolio companies.
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Mollie
Payments infrastructure provider helping EU businesses accept local and global methods. Mollie is a startup based in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the growth stage. The company operates in the Payments, Fintech space. Learn more at their website.
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Money20/20
Organizer of Money20/20 Europe, a flagship fintech and payments conference in Amsterdam. Money20/20 is an event organiser based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Organising events in the Events, FinTech, Payments, Financial Services space.
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Money20/20 Europe 2026
The premier global event for the fintech and financial services industry in Europe, held annually in Amsterdam, showcasing innovation and future trends in payments and commerce.
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Money20/20 Europe 2027
Money20/20 Europe 2027 runs 8-10 June at the RAI Amsterdam, billed as Europe's number one fintech event. The three-day event brings together leaders from banks, payments, tech, startups, retail, policy and crypto, with about one in three attendees at C-suite level.
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Monumental
Monumental is an Eindhoven-based construction robotics startup developing autonomous bricklaying robots designed to address chronic labor shortages in the European building industry. The company's robots use computer vision and AI to lay bricks with high precision on active urban construction sites, automating one of the most physically demanding trades. Backed by leading European deep-tech investors, Monumental is scaling deployments across the Netherlands and targeting broader European expansion.
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Mosa Meat
Mosa Meat is a Maastricht-based food-technology company founded in 2016 by the team behind the world's first cultured hamburger, presented in 2013. It develops cultivated (lab-grown) beef produced from animal cells rather than slaughtered livestock, aiming to make real meat with a far smaller environmental footprint as it works toward regulatory approval and scale-up.
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MycoTex
MycoTex is a Dutch materials company engineering mycelium-based materials for premium interiors, furniture and textiles. Its three-material system spans a bio-based covering material for walls and finishes, a structural material for furniture and components, and a lab-scale mycelium textile for interiors, fashion and accessories, positioned as a regenerative alternative to conventional materials.
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Nalden (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, known by his online moniker Nalden, is a Dutch entrepreneur and angel investor who co-founded The Next Web (TNW), one of the world's most influential tech media platforms and conference series. Starting as a blogger in the early 2000s, Nalden built TNW into a global brand with millions of readers and an annual conference in Amsterdam attracting thousands of founders and investors. Through his media network and personal investments, Nalden has backed dozens of early-stage European startups, especially in media, creative tech, and consumer internet. He is known for investing in founders with strong brand sensibility and storytelling ability, and his network across European tech journalism and event organizing gives his portfolio companies exceptional visibility.
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New Dawn Bio
Grows wood from tree stem cells in bioreactors without logging, producing material far faster than conventional forestry. Founded in 2023 on Wageningen Campus, it raised an oversubscribed €2.1M pre-seed to advance cultured-wood technology.
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Newion
Newion is an Amsterdam-based venture firm founded in 2000 by Jaap van Barneveld and Patrick Polak, and one of the Netherlands' most established early-stage B2B software investors. It backs seed and Series A rounds exclusively in business software across the Benelux, DACH and Nordic regions, managing roughly €300M across four funds — including Fund IV (€130M first close, 2022) backed by the European Investment Fund, BNP Paribas, PMV and Reggeborgh. Initial cheques range from €1M to €10M with reserves for follow-on. Newion applies a hands-on 'controlled growth' philosophy, taking active board roles during the critical first 12–18 months after investment. Across 60+ companies it has cultivated three unicorns — Collibra (data governance, Belgium), Deliverect (food-tech SaaS, Belgium) and Parloa (conversational AI, Germany) — and recorded exits including airfocus (acquired by Lucid Software, 2025). The team is led by Managing Partner Mathijs de Wit with partners Pieter Welten and Dorus Olgers.
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NOWOS
Extends the life of lithium-ion batteries through repair, remanufacturing, diagnostics and maintenance using original parts. Founded 2019; operates hubs in the Netherlands and France with capacity for 120,000+ batteries per year.
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Otrium
Otrium is an Amsterdam-based e-commerce company founded in 2016 that runs an online fashion outlet marketplace, giving premium and designer brands a dedicated channel to sell past-season and surplus stock to consumers instead of destroying or heavily discounting it in stores. It combines a curated shopping experience with data tools that help brands manage end-of-season inventory more sustainably.
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Overstory
Overstory is an Amsterdam-based climate-tech company providing AI-powered vegetation and wildfire intelligence for electric grid operators, helping utilities assess ignition risk and model vegetation-management tradeoffs around power lines. It is used by several of the largest utilities in North America to plan vegetation management and reduce wildfire risk to the grid.
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PayU
Fintech payments provider founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, owned by Prosus/Naspers. Processes online payments for merchants across CEE, LatAm and Africa.
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Peak
Peak is an Amsterdam-based seed venture capital firm founded in 2013 by a group of serial European founders — Johan van Mil, Daniel Hennes, Madeline Lawrence, and later Luc Mader — who wanted to build a fund explicitly aimed at first-time SaaS, marketplace, and platform founders in Europe. The firm writes initial checks of EUR 500K to EUR 4M at pre-seed and seed, reserves meaningful follow-on capacity through Series A, and takes a hands-on partner model that is unusually involved in hiring, pricing, and product-strategy work for portfolio companies. Peak's portfolio has included Trengo, Creative Fabrica, Catawiki, Miinto, Homerun, and Recruitee, and the firm is one of the most consistent seed-stage names in Benelux/DACH venture. It closed its fifth fund in 2023 and remains a reference seed investor for founders across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the Nordics.
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Picnic
Picnic is a Dutch online supermarket that rebuilt grocery delivery around planned logistics instead of adapting the economics of traditional retail stores. Customers order through an app, while Picnic fulfills from dedicated infrastructure and delivers on optimized neighborhood routes using tightly managed electric vehicles. That routing-first model makes the company structurally different from on-demand marketplaces because it reduces waste, increases drop density, and improves unit economics over time. As a result, Picnic is often discussed less as a consumer app and more as a logistics and software company disguised as a supermarket. It is a useful addition to the directory because it represents a European scale-up that won by controlling operations, data, and delivery cadence rather than by pursuing convenience at any cost. The company also broadens the dataset's coverage of e-commerce and supply-chain innovation, showing how category-defining startups can emerge from dense urban operations and disciplined software-led execution. For founders and investors studying European tech, Picnic is a strong reference case for how operational complexity can become a defensible moat rather than a burden.
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Pieter Cobelens
Pieter Cobelens is a former Director-General of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), the Netherlands' agency responsible for military intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and signals intelligence. He has extensive experience in strategic national security, international intelligence cooperation, and military cyber operations. Following his government career, Cobelens has been active as a speaker, commentator, and advisor on intelligence and security policy topics.
