Dutch startups entered the third quarter of 2025 with tremendous resilience even amid global market challenges.
The country’s combination of strong talent, quality universities, and collaboration continues to make it one of Europe’s most reliable places for innovation.
From Amsterdam’s machine learning startup to Utrecht’s medtech companies, founders across the country continued to raise capital to scale their ideas into globally relevant companies to solve various challenges.
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Netherlands ecosystem raised €560.5M in Q3
In Q3 2025, startups in the Netherlands raised about $654.7M (approximately €560.5M) across various funding stages, according to Dealroom.
Dutch startups and scale-ups are gaining momentum, with significant funding in larger deals — around $100M raised in transactions between $100M and $250M.
Late-stage Series C companies raised approximately $192.3M, while Series B startups brought in $163.1M.
Early-stage Series A companies raised about $128.6M, whereas the seed rounds generated $64.5M and pre-seed startups added $6.1M, reports Dealroom.
These figures highlight the healthy sign that the Netherlands’ ecosystem is still going strong and full of innovation and thriving.
Having said that, we have compiled a list of the top 10 Dutch funding rounds in Q3 2025, and some of them are hiring right now.
Framer
HQ: Amsterdam
Founder/s: Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk
Funds raised: €85.6M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Framer is a tool designed for startups, scaleups, freelancers, agencies, and enterprise teams that integrates design and web building into a single process. The Dutch platform provides a flexible design canvas and a modern content management system (CMS). It includes tools for on-page editing, animations, forms, analytics, A/B testing, and live collaboration, enabling companies to create and manage high-performance websites.
ViCentra
HQ: Utrecht
CEO: Tom Arnold
Funds raised: €72M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
ViCentra is a medtech startup that has developed Kaleido insulin patch pump. Unlike traditional insulin pumps, it is designed to function more like personal technology. The device works with Diabeloop’s automated insulin delivery algorithms, called DBLG1 and DBLG2. These algorithms control insulin delivery based on real-time glucose readings. The pump is compatible with the Dexcom continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor, which provides glucose data to guide insulin delivery. Users can choose from ten different aluminium shells for the pump. This allows them to select how the device looks and fits into their daily life while still performing insulin delivery.
HyET
HQ: Amsterdam
CEO: Rombout Swanborn
Funds raised: €60M
Hiring: No
HyET Solaris develops and manufactures Powerfoils, which are ultra-lightweight, flexible solar modules designed for low-cost, large-scale energy generation. The product is made from abundant amorphous silicon, offering an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional solar panels. The module can be used in various applications, covering a wide span ranging from low-cost utility-scale power plants to integrated high-end architectural solutions.
The Protein Brewery
HQ: Breda
CEO: Thijs Bosch
Funds raised: €30M
Hiring: No
The Protein Brewery develops nutritious food ingredients made from fungi. The company focuses on sustainable food sources using fermentation technologies. It employs various techniques, including molecular biology, fermentation, and analytical methods. The company’s product — Fermotein is a high-protein, high-fibre ingredient that integrates seamlessly into baked goods & snacks, dairy alternatives like yoghurts and nutritional products like protein shakes, functional bars and meal replacement drinks due to its tasteless and odourless nature.
Revyve
HQ: Gelderland
CEO: Cedric Verstraeten
Funds raised: €24M
Hiring: No
Revyve develops functional yeast proteins that mimic egg-based properties for applications such as bakery products, sauces, meat substitutes, and dairy alternatives. Unlike many substitutes, the company’s ingredients are natural, sustainable, clean-label, and competitively priced. This helps producers address three major challenges — volatile egg prices, the demand for fewer additives, and the pressure to reduce CO₂ emissions throughout the supply chain.
Dexter Energy
HQ: Amsterdam
Founde/s: Luuk Veeken
Funds raised: €23M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Dexter Energy offers advanced machine learning and optimisation solutions for short-term power trading. The company’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition toward a fully carbon-free power system by making short-term power trading smarter, easier, and more profitable for renewable energy producers. The company does this by integrating forecasting, automation, and asset management. As a result, Dexter helps energy providers to maximise the value of their wind, solar, and battery portfolios.
AMDAX
HQ: Amsterdam
CEO: Lucas Wensin
Funds raised: €20M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Amdax is a crypto-asset service provider offering custody, transfer, trading, staking, and asset management services for digital assets. The company launched AMBTS with the intention of listing a Bitcoin treasury company on Euronext Amsterdam. It is designed for institutional investors seeking bitcoin exposure through a regulated, European structure. Over time, AMBTS aims to become a 1 per cent Bitcoin treasury company.
Sympower
HQ: Amsterdam
Founder/s: Simon Bushell
Funds raised: €19M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Sympower is a provider of flexibility services in Europe and is helping balance electricity grids to support a sustainable energy system. Through its software platform, the company manages the supply and demand of electricity across European energy networks. The company helps commercial and industrial businesses, grid operators, and energy stakeholders participate in energy flexibility services, enabling them to generate new revenue streams, reduce energy costs, and integrate more renewable energy resources onto the grid.
Polars
HQ: Amsterdam
Founder/s: Ritchie Vink and Chiel Peters
Funds raised: €18M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Polars was founded to bring high-performance scientific and numeric data processing to the laptop. The platform empowers data scientists and engineers to analyse large DataFrames without having to set up and maintain a distributed computing cluster. With the introduction of Polars Cloud, the focus shifts to larger capabilities. Users do not need to rewrite DataFrame APIs based on their processing scale. Instead, Polars offers a single API that remains efficient across different scales.
Insify
HQ: Amsterdam
Founder/s: Koen Thijssen
Funds raised: €16.3M
Hiring: Yes| Apply here
Insify aims to transform business insurance by making it simpler, faster, and more affordable for entrepreneurs and SMEs. The company has developed an intuitive end-to-end digital insurance platform designed specifically for Europe’s entrepreneurs and SMEs. The platform allows SMEs to receive a business insurance quote in two minutes rather than weeks or months. The company’s technology uses data to make onboarding faster and coverage more accurate, minimising paperwork and reducing the risk of gaps in protection.
