Takeaway.com swallows competitor Just Eat Benelux in €22.5M acquisition The rivalry between takeaway / food delivery sites in Europe reached a new high. Dutch company Takeaway.com took a bite out of its British competitor Just Eat, with an acquisition of the latter's acti...
Music gig platform Plugify thrives through the power of personal contact When Eline Leijten was singer in the Hermes House Band (2006-2010) she found out the music industry kinda lacks transparency. There were high margins, tons of different agencies and too much middle-me...
Dutch startup news update: web shops, online privacy and the shape of traction Here’s what you need to know about what happened last week in the Dutch startup scene. And what’s coming! News & Updates Startups from The Netherlands have raised 84.4 million euro in the third quarte...
All-you-can-sport startup OneFit gets 850.000 euro for European expansion OneFit, an Amsterdam-based startup providing unlimited membership to health & fitness, received 850.000 euro in funding from Dutch VC Peak Capital and angel investor Roelof Borggreve. The investment a...
Transport startup Quicargo gets 450.000 euro seed investment The B2B marketplace for empty space in trucks Quicargo received a 450.000 euro seed investment from Hebo Investments (investment arm of Dutch transport company H&S Group) and several private investors...
Netherlands Startup Pavilion @CES 2017 StartupDelta special envoy Constantijn van Oranje will lead a delegation of 30 pioneering Dutch tech startups to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Held from the 5th to the 8th of Januar...
ING Fintech accelerator selects new startups Surance, Startup Insight, Gekko and Axyon Dutch bank ING continues its innovation studio initiative where it selects and supports Fintech startups. For the class of 2016 it has selected four new startups: Surance, Startup Insight, Gekko and A...
How to hire talent for your startup, post-funding So you've got the funds necessary to hire talent? Here's how to do it, with the 5 P's of startup recruitment: People, Process, Payment, Perks and Product. Guestpost by Rebecca Belknap & Aik Deveneijns...
Dutch startup news update: Startup in Residence, Deliveroo & funding Here’s your weekly Dutch startup news update! Funding & Deals Blendle, the ‘iTunes for journalism’ bought Dutch curated news startup Paper. With the acquisition (details undisclosed) Blendle takes a b...
Notable new Dutch startup and app launches – June/July 2016 Here's an overview of notable new launches of startups and apps in The Netherlands (June/July 2016). Geardropper Geardropper , founded by Bas Sonnevelt and Nick van den Berg, simply sends your camping...
Rules & Regulations: applying for public (micro)credits in The Netherlands In Europe and The Netherlands a microcredit does not just refer to a small loan for people starting businesses in economically less developed countries. It also refers to (smaller) loans to entreprene...
Energyworx secures 1 million euro series A funding from HenQ Energyworx, a SaaS-based energy data management platform from Houten, today announced a 1 million euro series A investment led by Dutch VC HenQ. The startup will leverage the new funding to accelerate...