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Amsterdam is a great place to live, work and visit. It's also a good ecosystem for startups. There are many good companies in Amsterdam, and there is a lot of innovation coming from that city.
Top 10 Startup firms in Amsterdam
1. MessageBird
MessageBird powers communication between businesses and their customers — across any channel, always with the right context, and on every corner of the planet. Its products and solutions are the foundational building blocks to business communications across preferred channels, like SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, Email and more. Founded inAmsterdam in 2011, MessageBird connects to billions of devices and is trusted by nearly 20,000 customers. It operates across nine worldwide hubs and is proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company.
Website: https://www.messagebird.com/
Founded: 2011
Total Funding: $1.1B
Last Funding Type: Series C
2. Picnic
Picnic is a fast-growing tech company that has developed the modern milkman, a mass-market home delivery system for fast moving consumer goods.
Website: http://www.picnic.app/
Founded: 2015
Total Funding: €950M
Last Funding Type: Series D
3. Mollie
Mollie is a payments platform that offers an easy-to-implement process for integrating payments into a site or app.It is a technology-based company processing payments for more than 50.000 clients with local payment methods such as Mastercard, VISA, Amex, PayPal, iDEAL, Bancontact, Bitcoin, SEPA Direct Debit, Cartes Bancaires, ESP, Giropay,SOFORT Banking, and more. Mollie aims to make online payment simple for merchants by taking away the complexity from payment methods and offering a simple, but powerful API.Mollie has a strong focus on technology, innovation, and reliability. The company was founded in 2004 and based in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
Website: https://www.mollie.com/
Founded: 2004
Total Funding: $928M
Last Funding Type: Series C
4. Perpetual Next
As a Climate Tech company, we enable industries and companies around the world to produce more sustainably by (re)using organic waste as renewable raw materials and thus extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.
Website: https://www.perpetualnext.com/en/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: €720M
Last Funding Type: Series A
5. CarNext.com
CarNext.com is a disruptive digital used car platform, that enables customers to buy, lease and subscribe to high-quality used cars. Its mission is to create the leading marketplace for flexible mobility solutions in Europe centered on trust, efficiency and transparency. CarNext.com offers customers fixed prices, full ownership and maintenancehistory and a ‘no-questions-asked’ 14-days period. Using a proprietary, data-driven model, CarNext.com can match supply and demand across Europe. CarNext.com is supported by a network of Delivery Stores, where customers can view the cars, receive consultation services before making a final purchase decision.
Website: https://www.carnext.com/
Founded: 2017
Total Funding: €400M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
6. bunq
bunq is a Dutch independent neobank that makes life easy. No branch visits, no queues, no paperwork, just immediate access from a mobile device. Users can share bank accounts with whomever they want and pay with worldwide Maestro and Mastercards wherever they go.bunq was founded in 2012 by Ali Niknam (1981), who managed to get the first Europeanbanking permit in over 35 years. He set out to radically change the traditional banking industry and, as its sole investor, invested €44.9m in bunq. bunq’s latest publicly available number of user deposits is €211,152,900, based on the deposits in December 2018. Over 2018 the total amount of user deposits doubled and is increasing every day. Over 2018 the total amount of user deposits doubled and is increasing every day.
Website: https://www.bunq.com/
Founded: 2012
Total Funding: €237.9M
Last Funding Type: Series A
7. Otrium
Otrium has over 300 brand partnerships with both up-and-coming designers and luxury names and more than 3 million shopping members. Otrium is disrupting the fashion industry by solving the problem of unsold inventory using data.
Website: https://www.otrium.com/
Founded: 2015
Total Funding: €132.6M
Last Funding Type: Series C
8. Crisp
Crisp is app-only supermarket for ultra-fresh food. The marketplace stocks >2000 products from more than 650 farmers, growers and makers and runs on proprietary software enabling zero-inventory and negative working capital. Order today, is delivered next day in a 1-hour timeslot. Launched in April 2018 in the Netherlands, backed by the largestseed funding in the Benelux in the last 3 years. In 2019 and 2020 Crisp raised follow-on rounds.Crisp is founded by Tom Peeters, Michiel Roodenburg and Eric Klaassen with the mission to make better quality food available to more people.
Website: https://www.crisp.nl/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: €121M
Last Funding Type: Series C
9. Tiqets
Tiqets is a ticketing platform where visitors can find, buy, and use tickets for museums and attractions. The company providing travelers with hassle-free entrance and with instant and mobile tickets. It also connects travelers with instant, last-minute, mobile tickets to top museums and attractions all over the world.Tiqets allow museum-goers tobuy e-tickets ahead of time on their smartphones without having to wait in long lines. It also offers museums and attractions technology that helps increase onsite conversion and marketing tools to encourage customers to become repeat visitors. The company has successfully connected the largest venues in European, the US & Middle East.Tiqets was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and with offices in London, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Vienna, Rome, Paris, Seattle, Barcelona, and Las Vegas.
Website: http://www.tiqets.com/
Founded: 2013
Total Funding: $105.5M
Last Funding Type: Series C
10. Fairphone
Fairphone is a company that creates ethically sourced smartphones that allow users to call, text, and surf the web. The materials used in the company's smartphones come from a completely open supply chain, allowing consumers to make good social and environmental impacts from the beginning to the end of a phone's life cycle.Fairphone wasestablished in 2010 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland by Bas van Abel.
Website: http://www.fairphone.com/
Founded: 2010
Total Funding: $93.9M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
