Smart-buildings startup Lone Rooftop secures seed investment Amsterdam-based start-up Lone Rooftop secured a 500k seed investment led by Dutch tech fund Mamadoo Ventures and backed by co-founder Reinoud Elhorst. The software company, founded in 2014, hopes to f...
Changing the restaurant experience – interview Tabster Amsterdam based FinTech startup Tabster wants to change the way groups of people pay in bars and restaurants. The team launched their MVP end of 2015 and are now raising funding for further growth. We...
Bright Roadmap for Photonics Chip manufacture at High Tech Campus Bright Roadmap for Photonics Chip manufacture at High Tech Campus Eindhoven Champagne was flowing at lunchtime today to mark the start of an important new phase in Indium Phosphide chip manufacture in...
Signing a term sheet? Start recruiting! To save some valuable time, you can start recruiting long before you get your investment in. Guestpost by Aik Deveneijns Some years ago, I was COO at an Amsterdam startup. We were closing a $1.5M roun...
Social Charging: space technology helps electric vehicle users Noordwijk, about ten kilometers from Leiden, is the place in the Netherlands for research on space technology. Activities are not confined to research, though. The Business Incubation Centre of the Eu...
Travel startup Polarsteps receives 500.000 euro in funding Polarsteps , the startup for tracking your travels, today announced a 500.000 euro investment from VC Silver Point Ventures and corporate TMG. With the Polarsteps app, the traveler’s journey is automa...
Dutch startup news update: Snappcar, Ahold, Monday morning read Good morning hard workers! Need to know what’s happening in the Dutch startup scene? Grab a coffee and we’ll talk you through. Funding & Updates Car sharing company Snappcar last week acquired Swedish...
Datafox: innovating the hunt for big data Bring two guys in finance together with two guys in computer science and you get the founders of Datafox, California-based pioneer in lead intelligence. Dutch co-founder Bastiaan Janmaat shares his in...
Eindhoven startup community gets together at EHV summit On October 22 a new startup summit takes place: Eindhoven organises the first Eindhoven Startup summit in the south of the Netherlands. This first edition consists of a full day of speakers and severa...
Nanotech startup Eurekite raises €1 million from Cottonwood Eurekite, a Twente-based nanotech ceramics startups, has raised one million euro from the European branch of the seed and pre-seed-stage technology commercialization VC Cottonwood Technology Fund both...
SanomaVentures: ‘You only need to hear yes once’ StartupAmsterdam asks SanomaVentures' investment director Herman Kienhuis about lessons learned; what disqualifies a startup from funding; developments in Dutch capital; and Amsterdam Capital Week. Wh...