Ethical hacker startup Zerocopter gets 1.3 million euro investment Zerocopter offers an online security platform where ethical hackers help companies find security issues. Last week the company announced that they have received 1.3 million euros in funding from undis...
Startup Fest Europe: Day 3 recap The third day of Startup Fest Europe: The Next Web, Campus Party, Energy Fest, Our Future Health, F&A Next. Events and tents just keep on coming! Campus Party If we may believe Twitter, hundreds of ha...
The Next Web Conference 2016: €566M fund for EU startups, hope for sharing economy "If there's no toilet paper, tweet me", The Next Web founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten ended his opening speech. It demonstrated the laid back atmosphere of a business conference that's intended no...
Pension fund ABP pours extra €300M into INKEF Capital Pension fund ABP today announced (link's in Dutch) they added an extra 300 million euro in venture fund INKEF Capital. ABP is founding partner and cornerstone investor of said fund. Dutch pension fund...
Startup in Residence Programme 2.0, the startup programme of the City of Amsterdam. Startup in Residence, the programme that gets city and startups innovating together, is back. After a successful pilot in 2015-2016, the City of Amsterdam is once again looking for startups with creat...
Dutch startup news update: Social Impact Ventures, Urbee, Watermelon Here's our weekly recap on what you need to know about the startup scene in The Netherlands. News & Updates Social Impact Ventures raised 40 million euro from ASN Venture Capital and ASR Nederland to ...
Bitcoin startup Blocktrail acquired by Chinese company Bitmain Dutch bitcoin startup Blocktrail last month has been acquired by bitcoin mining hardware company Bitmain from China. The Amsterdam-based startup offers bitcoin wallets and an analytics platform, among...
The option pool shuffle: effects on founders’ stake An investor requiring a generous option pool may seem no big deal for a founder. However, if put into the pre-money valuation it substantially lowers the effective valuation of an investment and conse...
Crobox gets €1.1M in seed funding to improve its ‘persuasion tech’ Amsterdam-based Crobox, a startup specialized in conversion rate optimization in e-commerce, raised a 1.1 million euro seed investment round led by Dutch VC Keadyn. Next to Keadyn , French VC Ventech ...
Dutch startup news update: Karma, Silicon Valley vs. Dutch tax We sure had a hot week, and not just in temperature. Check out what happened last week in the Dutch startup scene. News & Updates Software startup AppMachine from Leeuwarden has been acquired by Endur...
Food delivery service Thuisbezorgd.nl sells UK activities to Just Eat Another move was just made in the food delivery sector. Dutch scale-up Thuisbezorgd.nl, (parent company Takeaway.com), announced the selling of its British activities to competitor Just Eat. Thuisbezo...
Marketing software startup Bynder gets $22M investment from Insight Venture Partners Dutch marketing software startup Bynder announced a $22M (€19,7M) Series A funding round led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners. The capital will be used to continue international growth and t...