Amsterdam is reinforcing its status as a major startup hub in Europe, home to around 1,219 startups—nearly 45 per cent of the Netherlands’ total. While the city experienced a slight dip in the 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Index, it continues to attract talent and investment.
In April 2025, several Amsterdam-based startups secured new funding rounds, underscoring the city’s energetic entrepreneurial scene. This article profiles the companies that raised capital, many of which are now expanding their teams.
Note: Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names and the funding amount, have been sourced from Dealroom.
SOUS
Founder/s: Thomas Scholte, Devon Scoulelis
Funding amount: Secured strategic investment from PeakBridge
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
SOUS is a digital platform built to help chefs, restaurants, and food entrepreneurs run online businesses. It offers a single platform for selling meal kits, products, experiences, and subscriptions directly to customers. The company plans to expand into new service categories, including chef-at-home services and gift cards.
Avidicure
Founder/s: Arthur Lahr
Funding amount: Announced its launch with $50M (nearly €43.8M) in seed funding
Hiring status: No
Avidicure has introduced a new antibody platform called “AVC-Boosters”. This platform combines dual agonistic, multifunctional, and avidity-engineered features to deliver targeted monotherapy for use in oncology.
AVC-Boosters activate coordinated responses from both the innate and adaptive immune systems. The design integrates key mechanisms from first-generation antibodies, checkpoint inhibitors, T-cell engagers, and antibody-drug conjugates.
Rembrandt
Founder/s: Vincent Wijdeveld, Bob van Ratingen
Funding amount: Secured €330K in funding (Exclusive interview)
Hiring status: No
Rembrandt offers an AI revenue intelligence platform that provides real-time insights into leads, prospects, and customers. Its Lead Generation Agent identifies companies showing buying signals, the Prospect Tracking Agent monitors organisational changes, and the Customer Success Agent detects churn and upsell opportunities.
The platform consolidates account-level insights, integrates with CRM systems, and sends notifications through Slack.
Pro Parents
Founder/s: Joyce Knappe
Funding amount: Secured €1M in growth capital
Hiring status: No
Pro Parents offers HR technology that helps employers support employees during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and while managing work and parenthood. The company has supported over 8,000 parents and their employers.
Founder Joyce Knappe started Pro Parents after experiencing gaps in care during her own transition into parenthood. Her company’s platform is designed to provide guidance for parents returning to work, including access to resources and professional support.
The company also assists employers with meeting ESG goals and D&I strategies, while aiming to lower absenteeism, reduce turnover, and manage healthcare costs.
Tella
Founder/s: Michiel Westerbeek, Grant S.
Funding amount: Raised $2.1M in seed funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Tella is a screen recording platform that allows users to create video content such as demos, online courses, customer tutorials, and social media promotions. The platform serves content creators, educators, and businesses aiming to strengthen their digital communication.
Cruit
Founder/s: Steye Kaersenhout
Funding amount: Secured undisclosed funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Cruit is an employee referral platform that helps companies harness the hiring power of their teams. The company makes the referral process easier and cuts down on extra work, helping companies hire faster and improve employee satisfaction and retention.
Currently, Cruit is used by companies such as Van Lanschot Kempen, Vandebron, and Octopus Electric Vehicles, and is already active in over 30 countries.
Tective Robotics
Founder/s: Mattijs Otten, Jeffrey Miog, Frank van Veelen,
Funding amount: Raised fresh funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Tective Robotics specialises in autonomous drone systems. It develops dual-use autonomous drone systems designed to support decision-making in defence, emergency response, and agriculture.
The technology enhances situational awareness for defence operations, assists emergency workers in search and rescue efforts, and enables precision farming by optimising chemical use. The company aims to improve efficiency and resource management across these sectors.
Skytree
Founder/s: –
Funding amount: Amount undisclosed
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Skytree develops Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for carbon removal and utilisation. Built on European Space Agency expertise, the company delivers scalable, plug-and-play systems tailored for both decentralised installations and large-scale DAC Parks.
Skytree offers two modular DAC solutions: Skytree Cumulus, which captures up to 30kg of CO2 per day for small-scale applications like carbonating drinks and growing food in vertical farms, and Skytree Stratus, which captures up to 1000kg of CO2 per day for larger projects such as greenhouses, e-fuel production, and carbon storage.
NOWOS
Founder/s: Ambre Eppler, Steven Bradshaw, Jan Bartels, Prins Doornekamp
Funding amount: Raised €6M in equity funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
NOWOS specialises in repairing and reusing lithium-ion batteries. The company’s mission is to extend the life of batteries, reducing energy and material waste, by specialising in the repair, remanufacturing, diagnostics & maintenance of batteries using original parts.
NOWOS’ other services include eco-engineering, storage and logistics to support the full lifecycle of a battery.
Refinery89
Founder/s: Hugo Welkers, Rob Ottens
Funding amount: Undisclosed
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
Refinery89 was founded to address the need for an adtech partner focused on the interests of publishers rather than advertisers. As publishers themselves, the founders built Refinery89 to create ad monetisation solutions aimed at improving revenue for digital publishers. The company operates with a focus on enhancing the quality, quantity, innovation, and distribution of ad inventory.
CarePay
Founder/s: Led by current CEO, Pieter Prickaerts
Funding amount: Secured €5M in fresh funding
Hiring status: Yes, apply here
CarePay provides a platform that helps health insurers and third-party administrators digitise and manage their operations across pricing, products, member interactions, and care access. It uses real-time data and AI to automate claims, detect fraud, and analyse member behaviour.
CarePay connects payers, providers, and members to manage costs and improve care access. The company operates in East Africa and the MENA region, reporting reduced healthcare costs and faster provider payments.
beSirius
Founder/s: Anastasia Kuskova, Seva Martynov, Sergey Tyan
Funding amount: Secured €3M in an oversubscribed seed round
Hiring status: No
beSirius offers a full-cycle technology stack for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) to promote sustainability in the metals and mobility sectors, which are crucial players in the energy transition.
The platform addresses the challenges CSOs face to drive sustainability initiatives, automates repetitive tasks, calculates ROI, and provides a detailed toolkit for easy implementation. Its “Sustainability Twin” aggregates all sustainability data in one accessible profile.
In addition to automating the process of sharing data, beSirius has also developed an AI that acts as a digital copilot for sustainability teams.
Peckish
Founder/s: Harpreet Singh, Sebastien Pradier
Funding amount: Secured €800K in pre-seed funding
Hiring status: No
Peckish delivers insights and automated recommendations to restaurant managers, aiming to reduce costs and food waste. It is building an operations platform for restaurants. The company supports businesses by automating inventory management and improving supply chain processes.
The platform uses computer vision to make stocktaking faster, handles invoicing automatically, and manages procurement through a WhatsApp interface, giving control to restaurant operators.
