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NetherlandsPlatform

Europe · Pop. 18M · #10 startup ecosystem by EV

A public taster of the full Netherlands ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

1 Overview

2,810 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

1,881 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

349 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 19%

2,428Startups

1,117 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

833 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 21%

478 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 23%

309Breakouts

210 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 24%

99 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 29%

73Scaleups

55 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 2.0%

18 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 0.64%

44Valuation Outcomes

41 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.5%

2 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)

reach Decacorn 0.071%

1 Centicorns($100B–1T valuation)

reach Centicorn 0.036%

Pre-Seed

1,117

Seed

833

Series A

478

Series B

210

Series C

Unicorn

Decacorn

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

2 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Netherlands

A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a Netherlands-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Netherlands - 2024–2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Netherlands-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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3 Startup hubs

Inside Netherlands: 8 startup hubs, 449 universities

Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth

1 Amsterdam $258B 2.7× 5-yr

2 Utrecht $13B 8.8× 5-yr

3 Rotterdam - The Hague $12.9B 4.7× 5-yr

4 Leiden $8.5B 2.5× 5-yr

5 Rotterdam $8B 4× 5-yr

6 Eindhoven $7.9B 6.1× 5-yr

7 Delft $2.4B 11× 5-yr

8 The Hague $1.8B 4.3× 5-yr

Universities · founders produced · 449 tracked

1 University of Amsterdam 2,215

2 TU Delft 1,896

3 VU Amsterdam 1,458

4 Erasmus University Rotterdam 1,396

5 Utrecht University 1,059

6 University of Groningen 1,030

7 Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences 864

8 Eindhoven University of Technology 797

4 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Netherlands

VC investment into Netherlands-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

5 Founder origins

Where Netherlands's unicorn founders build

75 founders born in Netherlands are behind 44 unicorns; 27% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.

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6 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Netherlands in a global comparison

Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.

7 Patent intelligence

Netherlands startup IP portfolio: 95.1K patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Netherlands. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families

95.1K

Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.

5286 patents per million residents · #6 globally

Top patenting hubs

1 Amsterdam Metropolitan Area 57K

2 Brainport Eindhoven 34K

3 Rotterdam Metropolitan Area 3,409

4 Utrecht Region 477

5 Leiden 239

8 Premium analytics

What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Netherlands dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown

Where Netherlands's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Netherlands's domestic vs foreign capital mix

% domestic VC by stage

Cross-border lead investors

Sovereign-fund participation

Foreign-LP exposure

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Recent momentum

Netherlands's VC investment trajectory by stage

2024 vs 2025 by stage

Round-size trends

Stage-conversion deltas

Quarterly velocity

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Founder origins

Where Netherlands's startup founders come from

By country of origin

Per capita

Top universities

Top alumni-factory companies

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AI talent

Top employers of AI talent in Netherlands

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Netherlands

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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