Amsterdam's startup ecosystem shows a strong concentration in financial technology. The city is home to numerous companies developing software for banking, payments, and financial services.
This landscape includes heavily funded companies like data center provider Yondr Group, with $1.1B in funding. Fintech is also well represented by companies such as Mambu, which has raised €387M.
Below is our list of 68 Amsterdam startups worth keeping an eye on.
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| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Jorn van Dijk, Koen Bok |
| Funding Amount | $161M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series D |
| Top Investors | Accel, Meritech Capital Partners, AngelList, Foundation Capital, Designer Fund |
Mambu builds a true SaaS cloud banking platform that helps financial institutions create modern lending and banking services. Their composable approach gives companies the flexibility to build new financial products and experiences quickly.
| Year Founded | 2011 |
| Founders | Eugene Danilkis, Frederik Pfisterer, Sofia Nunes |
| Funding Amount | €387M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Bessemer Venture Partners, TCV, EQT, Tiger Global Management, Point Nine |
Backbase developed its Engagement Banking Platform to help financial institutions accelerate their digital transformation. The unified system allows banks to replace outdated legacy software and build modern, customer-focused digital services.
| Year Founded | 2003 |
| Founders | Gerbert Kaandorp, Jouk Pleiter |
| Funding Amount | €120M |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Debt Financing |
| Top Investors | Motive Partners, Vietnam Maritime Commercial Bank |
bunq builds a digital banking platform centered on giving users more control over their money. The European neobank simplifies personal and business finances with tools for easy budgeting, saving, and international payments through its mobile app.
| Year Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Ali Niknam |
| Funding Amount | €366.9M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Pollen Street Capital, Raymond Kasiman, Ali Niknam |
Finom built an all-in-one financial management platform designed for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Their service integrates a business account with invoicing and accounting tools, allowing users to manage their finances in one place.
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Alena Valovaya, Andrew Petrov, Andrey Varikov, Iakov Novikov, Ivo Dimitrov, Konstantin Stiskin, Oleg Laguta, Sergey Petrov |
| Funding Amount | $307.5M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, Headline, Northzone, Target Global, AVP |
Oneleet builds an all-in-one cybersecurity platform to help companies automate their security and compliance tasks. The service combines continuous penetration testing with other security tools to provide a comprehensive defense against cyber threats.
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Bryan Onel, Erik Vogelzang, Ora Onel |
| Funding Amount | $33M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Y Combinator, FPV Ventures, Dawn Capital, Arash Ferdowsi, Network.VC |
DataSnipper developed an AI-powered intelligent automation platform that operates directly within Excel. It helps audit and finance teams accelerate their workflows by automatically extracting and cross-referencing financial data from any document.
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Jonas Ruyter, Kai Bakker, Maarten Alblas |
| Funding Amount | $100M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series B |
| Top Investors | Insight Partners, Index Ventures, MONASHEES |
Polars develops a high-performance, open-source DataFrame library for data manipulation in Rust and Python. Their tool uses the Apache Arrow Columnar Format to deliver a fast and memory-efficient engine for data processing.
| Year Founded | 2020 |
| Founders | Chiel Peters, Ritchie Vink |
| Funding Amount | $21.6M |
| Startup Size | Founding Team (1-10) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Thomas Wolf, Bob van Luijt, Jeroen Tas |
Nebius AI develops a cloud platform specifically for AI workloads, providing scalable access to high-performance NVIDIA GPUs. Their service is designed to make it more cost-effective for companies to train large language models and deploy complex AI applications.
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Arkady Volozh |
| Funding Amount | $1B |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Debt Financing |
| Top Investors | Israel Innovation Authority |
Yondr Group develops, owns, and operates hyperscale data centers for businesses around the world. They provide end-to-end services to meet the growing data capacity and technical real estate needs of their clients.
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Dave Newitt, Miles Redding, Peter Jones |
| Funding Amount | $1.1B |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Debt Financing |
| Top Investors | International Finance Corporation, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Apollo, Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking |
58 Additional Amsterdam Startups Worth Following
The top 10 are just a small slice of what’s happening in Amsterdam right now. The city is full of founders working on everything from AI and energy to biotech, and together they've raised billions of dollars. Some of these companies are early in their journey, while others are already scaling up. Here’s a look at the other startups that are shaping Amsterdam's tech scene.