The Dutch tech sector experienced a marked deceleration throughout 2025, with investors adopting a more cautious stance and larger funding announcements becoming scarce. Investment across the Netherlands' technology sector contracted by 26 per cent, falling to €6.7B during the first nine months of the year. Venture funding in the third quarter dropped 37 per cent compared to the previous quarter, marking the lowest deal count recorded in five years.

Despite this broader contraction, companies operating across energy, technology, and sustainability sectors continued to secure capital. Amsterdam maintains its position as the primary hub for startup activity in the Netherlands, home to approximately 1,219 startups representing roughly 45 per cent of the country's startup population.

During October 2025, Amsterdam-based startups completed 19 funding rounds totalling more than $100M. Among the companies securing fresh capital were Return, TRACT, and Oneleet, all of which have begun expanding their teams, demonstrating continued momentum in the city's business environment despite the challenging funding landscape.

Return

Return operates as an independent energy storage provider, developing and constructing large-scale battery systems that it leases to energy companies and trading firms. The company's proprietary battery energy storage system (BESS) platform integrates storage facilities across multiple countries, delivering real-time visibility into energy availability and demand to alleviate grid congestion and enhance grid resilience.

TRACT

TRACT provides sustainability performance measurement for the agriculture and food sectors, delivering quantifiable metrics and methodologies applicable across multiple product categories. The Dutch firm enables businesses to understand their supply chain sustainability profile and extract actionable insights, supporting their efforts to create measurable positive environmental impact.

Hydryx

Founders: Anthonie Jacobson, Joren Tangelder

Hydryx is engineering systems designed to extract methane from landfills and convert the captured gas into renewable electricity, contributing to emissions reduction and the broader energy transition. The technology intercepts methane before atmospheric release, enabling landfill operators to generate green energy while simultaneously reducing emissions and creating additional revenue streams. The company's automated approach optimises extraction efficiency while minimising methane leakage.

SOUS

Founders: Devon Scoulelis and Thomas Scholte

SOUS provides a commerce platform enabling chefs, restaurants, and food entrepreneurs to establish, operate, and expand online ventures without requiring dedicated technical expertise. By removing intermediary layers, the Dutch platform grants creators complete control over their brand identity and business operations, streamlining the launch, expansion, and maintenance of online enterprises.

Northsea

Founders: Geart van Dam, Nick van Zanten

Northsea operates an AI-native research platform serving consultants, investors, and strategy teams seeking to develop comprehensive customer insights. The platform's AI research assistant automates the complete research workflow—from survey design through respondent identification, data gathering, and analytical interpretation. According to the company, this automation reduces manual labour requirements by up to 80 per cent.

AMBTS

Funds raised: €30M in aggregate investment

AMBTS targets institutional investors seeking bitcoin exposure through a regulated European framework. The company envisions evolving into a 1 per cent Bitcoin treasury company over time.

Datamonk

Founders: Jaap Gielink, Jai Bhatia, Matthew Condron

Datamonk has created a platform leveraging agentic AI to streamline PACS and VNA migrations. The system identifies and resolves metadata inconsistencies, standardises nomenclature for studies, and verifies data quality throughout the migration process. The software substantially reduces the time and labour intensity associated with conventional migration initiatives, enabling hospitals to transfer data five to ten times faster. Beyond migration support, Datamonk's platform prepares imaging data for clinical deployment, research initiatives, and artificial intelligence applications, functioning as a data infrastructure layer for healthcare organisations undertaking system transitions.

ThreatFabric

ThreatFabric specialises in mobile threat intelligence and online fraud detection, delivering data-driven, AI-powered security solutions for businesses and their customers. The company's threat intelligence capabilities and SDK-based platform defend against multiple fraud categories including malware, application fraud, automated bots, remote access Trojans (RATs), social engineering schemes, identity impersonation, unauthorised account access, and data breaches.

Trusk Technology

Funds raised: €350K in funding from the North Holland Innovation Fund

Trusk Technology focuses on strengthening security infrastructure across Europe. The company transforms operational technologies into protective mechanisms for urban centres and critical infrastructure. Its approach encompasses developing broadly deployable defence systems, implementing field-tested solutions, and constructing scalable systems capable of expanding geographic coverage.

Saga

Saga delivers a platform featuring transparent artificial intelligence assistants, legal reference materials, and agentic workflows, enabling legal practitioners to deliver work more rapidly and with enhanced quality. The platform provides bespoke legal solutions grounded in legal research, case documentation, and specialised legal roles developed in partnership with legal and tax professionals. The methodology prioritises legal practitioners, equipping them with role-specific legal instruments and comprehensive educational support for effective resource utilisation. The company's adoption programme comprises five structured training modules addressing awareness, procedural thinking, and hands-on implementation.

GBM Works

Funds raised: Closes seed funding round at €6.2M

GBM Works has engineered Vibrojet technology, which merges vibration and water jet forces to drive monopiles into seafloor substrates. The innovation achieves noise reduction of up to 63 per cent while simultaneously delivering time and cost savings for offshore wind farm development. The company collaborates with DEME Offshore and Deltares to advance controlled soil fluidisation through water jetting and vibration methodologies. This expertise is being deployed within the offshore wind sector, where GBM Works partners with equipment manufacturers and installation contractors to design systems and develop machinery informed by rigorous predictive modelling.

Oneleet

Founders: Erik Vogelzang, Ora Onel, Bryan Onel

Funds raised: $33M (€28.14M) in Series A round

Oneleet assists organisations in achieving SOC 2, ISO 27001, and comparable compliance certifications by prioritising security architecture. The methodology establishes robust security foundations, with compliance emerging as a natural consequence rather than through procedural checklists. The platform consolidates services typically requiring multiple vendors—including penetration assessments, source code analysis, cloud infrastructure evaluation, attack surface tracking, mobile device administration, and security awareness training—into a single integrated system. By developing and maintaining these capabilities internally, Oneleet delivers comprehensive security through a unified platform.

Dashmote

Founders: Dennis Tan, Matthäus Schreder, Stefan Tan

Funds raised: $6M (€5.1M) in Series A1 round

Dashmote operates as an artificial intelligence technology firm converting unstructured data into actionable intelligence for sales, strategic planning, and marketing functions. The company's primary platform, engineered for the food and beverage industry, aggregates information from food delivery platforms and mapping services. This capability assists businesses in identifying expansion opportunities, strengthening their digital footprint, and broadening market penetration.

Legal Mind

Founders: Jelle Burggraaf, George Gowers

Legal Mind is a digital platform tailored to Dutch legal frameworks and regulatory requirements. The AI-enabled system merges computational precision with legal knowledge, facilitating legal investigation, case evaluation, and contract preparation. The company describes its functionality as delivering not merely information but contextual understanding and professional-level reasoning. This capability accelerates analytical processes, organises documentation, and produces intelligent document drafting. Consequently, legal specialists can concentrate on their core responsibilities—strategic counsel, legal advice, and justice administration.

Optics11 Life

Funds raised: Fresh funding (undisclosed)

Optics11 Life manufactures instruments for characterising the mechanical attributes of cells, tissues, and biomaterials. The company employs fibre-optic sensing integrated with automation and imaging technologies to execute high-throughput mechanical assessment, producing datasets applicable to pharmaceutical development, disease modelling, and quality assurance in regenerative medicine applications. The company's instrument portfolio—Pavone, Piuma, Chiaro, and Cuore—encompasses tools for cell-to-tissue nanoindentation and a contractility measurement system tracking three-dimensional muscle-bundle behaviour, quantifying mechanical stiffness, viscoelastic properties, and force production.

Fellos

Fellos operates as the Netherlands' inaugural digital clinic dedicated to men's health, delivering accessible, high-quality medical services for individuals reluctant to consult traditional general practitioners. The platform facilitates patient connections with BIG-registered physicians and a Dutch pharmaceutical partner for remote consultations and prescription services. The Dutch platform currently addresses three domains where men frequently encounter barriers to healthcare engagement: sexual health concerns (erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation), dermatological conditions (acne), and androgenetic alopecia. Since its establishment, the company has served more than 10,000 patients and targets supporting one million individuals throughout Europe by 2030.

Dott

Dott provides shared micromobility services throughout Europe. The company was established in March 2024 following the consolidation of TIER and Dott, continuing operations under the Dott brand. Vehicle fleets from both predecessor organisations have been unified within the Dott application. Dott administers a vehicle fleet exceeding 250,000 units distributed across more than 400 municipalities spanning 21 European and Middle Eastern nations. The platform's 10 million registered users have collectively completed more than 400 million journeys since the merger.

Phone labs

Funds raised: €2.5M in a two-part funding round

ThePhoneLab functions as a specialised repair facility for smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers, addressing a comprehensive range of hardware and software malfunctions. Operating through both physical locations and a mail-in service option, ThePhoneLab delivers expedited repair solutions without requiring advance scheduling. The company pursues a broader mission centred on prolonging mobile device operational lifespan and minimising electronic waste generation.

Finstack

Founders: Karel Gonzalez Hulshof, Sebastiaan Hoekstra

Finstack provides an automated reporting, consolidation, and forecasting platform designed to accelerate month-end financial closing procedures. The platform manages consolidations spanning multiple business entities, encompassing intercompany eliminations, minority and non-controlling interest accounting, and sub-group reporting capabilities. Reports can be organised by corporate group, geographic region, or business division, with complete transparency into elimination entries and adjustment transactions, according to the company.

Source: Silicon Canals