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Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, has long been a hub for entrepreneurial activity and technological advancements.
May was an exciting month for Amsterdam-based startups as many of them successfully raised funding to fuel their growth and expansion.
These startups represent a diverse range of industries, from SaaS and e-commerce to healthcare and sustainability, showcasing the breadth of innovation happening within the city’s entrepreneurial landscape.
These startups have already demonstrated their potential to disrupt traditional industries, develop groundbreaking technologies, and address pressing global challenges.
Further, these startups fueled by the city’s supportive ecosystem and access to capital, are not only making waves with their groundbreaking ideas. They are also actively expanding their teams.
As the city’s startup ecosystem continues to flourish, it presents a unique chance for job seekers to be part of groundbreaking projects. This will enable them to contribute to the growth of pioneering companies.
As part of this effort, we have compiled a list of startups founded in Amsterdam that raised funding in May 2023. Some of them are hiring right now.
Check it out!
Reliving
Founder/s: Ananda van Doorn, Jody Klaassen
Funding in May: €684K
Hiring Status: Yes| Apply here
Reliving is an online marketplace for quality used furniture and home accessories. The company aims to make buying and selling used interiors as easy as possible so that reusing furniture becomes easier and more common.
A couple of days back, Amsterdam-based startup Reliving secured €684K through crowdfunding on Oneplanetcrowd.com with a maximum target of €1.5M.
Bird Health
Founder/s: Mark Willems
Funding in May: €250K
Hiring Status: No
Birdt Health is an Amsterdam-based startup developing a digital platform for more effective mental health treatment.
Through this platform, individuals can conveniently schedule online therapy sessions, known as Single Session Therapy, with experienced psychologists.
Clients can book sessions themselves focusing on their specific concerns and questions.
By doing so, Amsterdam’s Birdt empowers clients to take control of their therapy.
It includes deciding when the sessions occur, the topics they wish to discuss, and the overall direction of their treatment.
In May, Birdt Health raised €250K in early-stage funding from Innovation Fund Noord-Holland.
Dayrize
Founder/s: Austin Simms and Bart Nollen
Funding in May: €4.02M
Hiring Status: Yes| Apply here
Dayrize has developed a sustainability assessment tool that assesses the environmental impact of any consumer goods.
The company’s software platform and methodology combine a variety of data sources to produce a single, comprehensive product-level sustainability score.
The score is comparable across product categories, as well as in-depth impact reports across five key sustainability dimensions – circularity, climate change, ecosystem impact, livelihood & well-being, and purpose – in under two seconds.
The Amsterdam company raised €4.02M in an investment round led by Gresham House Ventures’ Thomas Makey and Matt Jones.
WPCS.io
Founder/s: Roger Rosweide, Sybren van Kesteren, Wijnand van Leeuwen and Dexter Drupsteen
Funding in May: NA
Hiring Status: Yes| Apply here
WPCS.io is a cloud solution provider that transforms WordPress into a scalable Website-as-a-Service and SaaS platform using multi-tenancy and Kubernetes.
The Amsterdam-based platform helps users build and manage thousands of distinct WordPress installations in an isolated yet centralized manner.
It offers adaptable solutions for hosting companies, service providers, and product companies seeking to leverage SaaS cloud architecture for their WordPress applications.
The company raised funds from Emilia Capital, the holding company of Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt, Yoast founders.
StocksFC
Founder/s: Alex Thomas and Kartikeya Sharma
Funding in May: NA
Hiring Status: No
StocksFC is a blockchain-based stock exchange for football lovers.
The platform allows fans and investors to purchase shares in professional football players and benefit from their performance.
The Amsterdam startup leverages web3 technology to offer a secure and transparent platform for buying and selling player stocks.
In May, the company raised a pre-seed investment from Antler.
Quatt
Founder/s: Flipse and Marijn Flipse
Funding in May: €1.5M
Hiring Status: Yes| Apply here
Quatt develops, manufactures, and installs the Quatt Hybrid, a hybrid heat pump driven by smart software. The Amsterdam scale-up claims its hybrid heat pump can save up to 80 per cent of the gas bill compared to a central heating boiler.
The Amsterdam company raised €1.5M through Sustainable Investing in May.
Soolutions
Founder/s: Joury de Reuver
Funding in May: €2M
Hiring Status: No
Soolutions is an online platform that provides EV charging equipment for homeowners and EV drivers.
The Amsterdam company’s focus is on making it simple to supply, distribute, and install charging stations at customers’ homes.
Since 2013, Soolutions has operated as an online e-commerce website that serves customers in Europe and a few other countries.
Earlier in May, the company raised €2M through SeedBlink, the European co-investment platform.
ThreatFabric
Founder/s: Han Sahin and Yorick Koster
Funding in May: €11.5M
Hiring status: Yes| Apply here
ThreatFabric provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to the financial services sector, enabling banks and financial institutions to gain comprehensive fraud visibility across the web and mobile channels.
The Amsterdam company has developed advanced software to help banks and financial institutions protect their end-users from fraud and malware using various protection layers, such as on-device malware detection and behavioral analytics.
ThreatFabric raised €11.5M in a Seed round of funding co-led by ABN AMRO Ventures and Motive Ventures, with participation from 10xFounders and 14Peaks Capital.
TerraPay
Founder/s: Ambar Sur, Ani Sane, Ram Sundaram, and Akbar Hussain
Funding in May: €91.74M
Hiring Status: Yes| Apply here
TerraPay is a fintech mobile-first international payment network founded to send money to any mobile.
TerraPay enables companies to offer transparent customer experiences by providing a continuous, safe, and real-time worldwide gateway for all payments regardless of size.
Currently, the company’s payments infrastructure and solutions platform offers business/merchant pay-outs, purchasing, and issuance services, among others.
The company raised €91.74M in a Series B equity and debt funding round led by IFC.
Farmless
Founder/s: Adnan Oner
Funding in May: €1.2M
Hiring status: Yes| Apply here
Farmless has developed a unique fermentation process that does not rely on sugar as a feedstock, but instead uses liquid feedstock created from renewable energy.
The Dutch company’s goal is to build a fermentation platform that turns renewable electricity into food.
The company raised €1.2M in a pre-Seed round of funding led by Revent, Nucleus Capital, and Possible Ventures.
Equip
Founder/s: Toon Peek, Jan Klinkhamer, Jan Cees van Senden
Funding in May: €2M
Hiring Status: No
Equip is a financial planning platform that aims to offer financial peace of mind for everyone.
The platform offers personalized ideas on what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, the counsel of financial experts, and instructional content (in the form of articles and videos, and interactive workshops) to support workers in creating and adhering to a personal financial plan to achieve their life objectives.
The company raised €2M in a pre-seed round of funding led by XO Ventures.
VaVersa
Founder/s: Olivier Francescangeli
Funding in May: NA
Hiring Status: No
VaVersa produces indoor gardens called MIA, which enable chefs to grow over 80 different microgreens and herbs on-site, providing hyperlocal and ultra-fresh ingredients for their dishes.
MIA allows chefs to cultivate rare and expensive herbs and microgreens that would otherwise be hard to come by.
The company secured an undisclosed amount in pre-seed round funding from ASIF Ventures and angel investors.
Anyway
Founder/s: Julien Jukema
Funding in May: NA
Hiring status: Yes| Apply here
Anyway aims to revolutionize learning by making knowledge accessible through audio.
These audio bites, ranging from 10 to 15 minutes, are designed to enhance knowledge retention using scientifically-proven methods.
Currently, the startup is engaged in pilot projects with several innovative partners, including the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Noordhoff, the International School of Amsterdam, and six colleges in the UK.
The company closed an undisclosed investment from Edtech investors and educational institutions.
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