Dutch startups get more than 500 million in 2014 – Bright

Dutch startups were good in terms of investment, last year. The final score stands at 500.1 million euros.

StartupJuncture, a blog that tracks closely as possible investments in startups Dutch, presents this total figure. At the last minute this number was much higher due to the investment in the company Adyen 200 million. This provides a variety of shops and startup companies (Facebook and Airbnb are among the clientele) virtually all payment types. Adyen is followed by Takeaway.com, parent company of Thuisbezorgd.nl that picked 74 million. The top 3 finishes with Elasticsearch, a data company that search functions and analyzes executes include Yelp, Facebook, Sony.

Over a million

We are totally in done 75 investments, at least, as recorded by StartupJuncture. The list looks quite accurately. What is striking is that there are 33 companies that fetched more than a million in investments. In the Netherlands, namely that no sinecure. Here the quantity of depends bootstrapping to each other, smaller amounts around two tons, as indicates StartupJuncture.

Yet striking that this year more than forty percent of all investments above a million. Who knows, we break through the next few years the trend of small investment rounds? To ever be able to make Silicon Valley-like growth, it is necessary. The problem lies especially in the early investment rounds, where large investments pick is still very difficult.

Question of definition

Earlier NRC Q already came with an overview of investments in the Dutch startup world. They were much lower (62 million), partly due to their narrower definition of what a Dutch startup. Companies like eg mint Solutions (founded in Iceland, but by participating in Startup Bootcamp HighTechXL remained in the Netherlands) were not counted because they are not one hundred percent of Dutch origin.

A bit silly, because the investment, the jobs and deliver what matters is certainly in favor of the Dutch economy. And of course it is a great sign that startups from abroad to establish themselves here. A starting point for the Startup Delta Neelie Kroes.