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| Jul 4, 2025 | Sweco acquires architecture and engineering consultancy specialised in healthcare and industry in the Netherlands | Sweco acquires architecture and engineering consultancy specialised in healthcare and industry in the Netherlands
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Sweco has signed an agreement to acquire Volantis, a Dutch compa... |
| May 1, 2024 | Rotterdam’s Infinity Recycling closes Circular Plastics Fund at €175M to boost plastic recycling | Read this article in:
Rotterdam-based Infinity Recycling, an impact investment fund, has closed its first fund — Circular Plastics Fund, at €175M to invest in young recycling companies that have passed the startup phase.
The fund, with a ta... |
| Mar 1, 2024 | Mosa Glas terug in handen familie Tinnemans | Op 18 oktober jl. berichtte Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) over de aanstaande verkoop van Mosa Glas aan ING Bank. Dit vervroegde bericht werd gepubliceerd naar aanleiding van de verplichte gepubliceerde melding bij karteltoezichthouder ACM, d... |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Netherlands: Vexatious lawsuit against Het Financieele Dagblad condemned | MFRR and the CASE coalitions stand ready to provide financial support towards legal aid
Credit: The FD Mediagroup
The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the Coalition Against SLAPPs i... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Boohoo’s revenue loss escalates | Boohoo Group reflects on a meager half-year in which revenue declined by 17 percent. Particularly in the United Kingdom, which accounts for most of its revenue, the company suffered significantly. The group’s loss (adjusted EBIT) amounted t... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Neobank bunq secures fresh €44.5M growth capital, reaching €100M this year | It’s been a banner year thus far for the folks at neobank bunq. Just last week the firm announced that it had surpassed 9 million registered users accounting for over €4.5 billion in deposits, and today it revealed that it’s secured a fresh... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Суд признал банкротом нидерландского производителя электровелосипедов VanMoof Статьи редакции | Компания изучает способы продолжить работу.
Окружной суд в Амстердаме признал банкротами три юрлица — VanMoof Global Holding BV, VanMoof BV и Van Moof Global Support BV, пишет Reuters. В заявлении своим 700 сотрудникам основатели стартапа п... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | VanMoof, the e-bike darling, skids off track: Sales paused, execs depart | Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof sped into the mobility world with more than $200 million from a list of big-name investors and an ambitious, trendy spin on two-wheeled electric travel: sleek e-bikes designed end-to-end. The battery was beautif... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | Производитель электровелосипедов VanMoof оказался на грани закрытия — компания ищет деньги, чтобы спастись Статьи редакции | Одна из возможных причин — слишком дорогие себестоимость и ремонт электровелосипедов.
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В 2021 году нидерландский стартап VanMoof называл себя «самой финансируемой компанией по производству электровелосипедов в... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | IN THE NEWS: HEALTH IMPACT FUND INITIAL CLOSE | Following the successful initial close of our flagship NLC Health Impact Fund, NLC is proudly featured in the news. Business and financial news outlets stress the significance of the funds raised from private investors against the current t... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | Buitenlandse investeerders ontevreden over belastingen | Buitenlandse investeerders zijn steeds minder tevreden over het investeringsklimaat in Nederland. Dit komt grotendeels door het belastingbeleid. Zo zijn onze belastingverplichtingen vaak strenger dan in Europa.
Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek ... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Cowboy brings AdaptivePower to its ebikes and shows why community building is critical to D2C sales | Today Belgium ebike company Cowboy launched AdaptivePower, a technology that senses changes in the rider's environmental conditions in real-time, adjusting the power depending on the hill, wind or weight.
Tanguy Goretti, Co-Founder and CTO,... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | VanMoof: The more they sell, the more they lose | Amsterdam-based developer and designer of urban e-bikes VanMoof is facing a financial conundrum. According to 2021 sales figures crunched by Dutch financial media outlet FD, the cost of selling a VanMoof bike is greater than that of the pur... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | VanMoof: The more they sell, the more they lose | Amsterdam-based developer and designer of urban e-bikes VanMoof is facing a financial conundrum. According to 2021 sales figures crunched by Dutch financial media outlet FD, the cost of selling a VanMoof bike is greater than that of the pur... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Voys wins prestigious Dutch industry award | Voys co-founder Mark Vletter surrounded by a herd of Gazelle.
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For the 10th year running, Voys has taken home a coveted FD Gazellen trophy, the pre-eminent Dutch award for the country’s fastest-growing companies. This is an... |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Top 10 Startup Success Stories: December
Subscribe to our newsletter | Good news for all startups is that the InnovationQuarter’s own fund – IQCapital – will be expanded with € 63.6 million to a total size of € 140 million. Read more about this here: € 64 mln for IQCapital at fund expansion.
DuckDuckGoose, on... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Coolblue postpones IPO | Dutch omnichannel retail player Coolblue has decided to postpone its initial public offering and listing of shares on Euronext Amsterdam. According to the company, current market conditions create uncertainty among investors. The public off... |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Dutch Banking Challenger Bunq to Acquire €160M in Capital at €1.65B Valuation, Deal Includes SME Lending Platform Purchase | Dutch banking challenger Bunq has reportedly committed to a €160 million round at a €1.65 billion valuation. Bunq will also be acquiring a small business lender as part of the transaction.
Bunq’s latest investment round was joined by an unn... |
| May 11, 2021 | Top 10 Startup Success Stories: April
Subscribe to our newsletter | Jan van der Tempel, founder and CEO of Ampelmann, has been named finalist for the European Inventor Award 2021! He got nominated by the European Patent Office for his invention of the Ampelmann motion compensated gangway system and for rais... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Top 10 Startup Success Stories: February
Subscribe to our newsletter | Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad presented the innovators of 2021! They are young, maximum 35 years old, and will set the tone in the Netherlands and beyond. Amongst these 50 talents are YES!Delft entrepreneurs Just Schornagel from S... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | IT-bedrijf Conclusion stort zich met overname Hot Item op data-analyse | IT-bedrijf Conclusion heeft weer een overname gedaan. Ook de Amsterdamse data-consultant Hot Item, met een jaaromzet van meer dan €30 mln, wordt onderdeel van de groep die inmiddels uit meer dan 25 bedrijven bestaat.
Download het artikel h... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | A Dutch taxi company is taking Tesla to court over “defective” cars | The Netherlands was one of Europe’s most prolific buyers of Teslas but now the Dutch honeymoon seems to be over, with Tesla facing a lawsuit from a large taxi company, and a group of disgruntled car owners considering a class action suit.
B... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Picnic wants to expand to UK and France | Online-only supermarket Picnic is planning to expand to the United Kingdom and France. As a result of the upcoming expansion, Picnic has exchanged its collaboration with purchasing organization Superunie for a deal with German supermarket c... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | DHL Parcel invests €125 million in the Netherlands | DHL Parcel has announced it will invest at least 125 million euros in the Netherlands. It will use the money to open two new parcel sorting centers. During the last two years, DHL Parcel already invested 150 million euros in the Dutch marke... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | União Europeia quer facilitar troca de baterias de celular e fone sem fio | A União Europeia pretende ajudar consumidores a permanecerem mais tempo com um celular, tablet ou fone de ouvido sem fio. Para isso, o órgão trabalha para obrigar as fabricantes a facilitarem a troca das baterias desses equipamentos.
LG V60... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Horecaplanner waagt zich op uitzendmarkt | L1nda, dat werkroosters maakt voor ruim 3000 horecabedrijven, gaat ook het personeel voor die diensten leveren. Daarmee gaat het Amsterdamse bedrijf de concurrentie aan met zzp-platform Temper. Opmerkelijk genoeg gaat dochter L1nda Connect ... |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Essent acquires VandeBron | Essent has acquired its fellow utility company Vandebron for an undisclosed amount, the fact hat Vandebron was for sale was public information.
Vandebron connects households and companies with local energy producers – mostly farmers with w... |
| Jul 25, 2019 | Mobile payments app Payconiq wants to expand in Europe | Payconiq, a mobile payment app supported by several Benelux banks, wants to expand further in Europe. To achieve this goal, it just raised 20 million euros in a funding round led by its existing shareholders.
With the money, Payconiq wants ... |
| May 13, 2019 | Zijn crowdfundingplatforms eerlijk over rendement? | Investeren in crowdfunding wordt in Nederlands alsmaar populairder, maar tegelijkertijd dalen de rendementen. Volgens het Financieel Dagblad worden potentiële beleggers zelfs te gunstige rendementen voorgespiegeld. Investeerders.nl ging op ... |
| Nov 14, 2018 | UK-based Secret Escapes acquires what’s left of TravelBird after a few months of negotiations | It only took two weeks after Amsterdam-based TravelBird officially filed for insolvency for its assets to get acquired, the Financieele Dagblad reports. The UK-based Secret Escapes, a competing travel booking platform with a luxury focus, h... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | Dutch company One of a Kind sells a majority stake to Gimv for more than €5 million | One of a Kind Technologies has raised a funding round from the Belgium-headquartered investment firm Gimv in exchange for a majority stake. The parties have not disclosed the valuation and funding amount, but the latter number exceeded €5 m... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | Alipay launches in 20 European countries in 2018 | Alipay, the biggest payments firm of China, will be available in 20 countries across Europe at the end of this year. The mobile payment platform is said to have signed deals with over 100 banks and 40 digital wallets companies in Europe.
Al... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | We are looking for plant-based food that tastes good |
Everyone in the room agreed: in 2050 there will never be enough meat for 10 billion people. Just as everyone agreed that there should be new vegetable ingredients. Although farmed meat and fish have a future, vegetable substitutes for mea... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | Strategic Partnership Enercon – Lagerwey | The Dutch windmill manufacturer Lagerwey is being taken over by the German windturbine manufacturer Enercon. Both companies announced on thursday night that Enercon is opting for a strategic partnership with the company from Barneveld.
Ear... |
| Dec 5, 2017 | YES!Delft at Slush 2017
Subscribe to our newsletter | Read her experience here!
“Together with the YES!Delft student board, I represented YES!Delft at Slush Helsinki. With an amazing light and sound show, the first keynote of Slush 2017 in Helsinki was given by Al Gore. He talked about the gr... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | Dutch fintech startup Five Degrees raises €10 million for banking platform | Five Degrees, a Dutch fintech startup, has raised €10 million led by Karmijn Kapitaal, which acquired a minority interest in the firm. 5square and Velocity Capital also participated in the round.
Five Degrees plans to use the funding to exp... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Dutch shrimp processor Klaas Puul sold to equity group | After more than a year of considering a sale, the owners of major Dutch shrimp processing firm Klaas Puul have offered a controlling interest in the company to investment group H2 Equity Partners.
Klaas Puul, headquartered in Volendam, the ... |
| Apr 15, 2016 | Miljoenenverlies bij Symbid: wanneer barst de crowdfunding-bubbel? | Startup beginnen? Crowdfunden! Leuk ideetje? Crowdfunden! Geld nodig? Crowdfunden! Crowdfunding is bijna nog hipper dan een startup beginnen. Maar er zijn tekenen dat een bubbel op handen is. Drie tekenen aan de wand waarom de crowdfundingb... |
| Apr 4, 2016 | Overleeft crowdfunding straks wel de verplichte investeringstoets? | Crowdfunding wint meer terrein dan Rusland in de winter van 2014. De markt voor crowdfunding verdubbelt de laatste jaren structureel en kwam afgelopen jaar uit op 125 miljoen euro aan investeringen. Van complete eilanden tot een co-workings... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | Durfinvesteringsfonds van Mark Zuckerberg investeert in Adyen, nu 2 miljard waard | Een klapper van een investeringsronde voor de Nederlandse unicorn en betalingsverkeerbedrijf Adyen. Durfinvesteringsfonds Iconiq, een mysterieus genootschap van Silicon Valley-miljardairs zoals Mark Zuckerberg, zit achter de investering. Ho... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Dutch Filmmakers Claim Piracy Damages From Government | Compared to many other countries around the world, pirating movies and TV-shows is hugely popular in the Netherlands.
Up to a third of the population is estimated to download and stream copyrighted content without paying for it.
This high p... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | Dutch VC firm henQ gets a fresh cash injection, launches its third fund (value: €50 million) | As the Dutch tech scene continues to evolve (particularly but not only in Amsterdam), it looks like local VC firms are following suit.
In recent times, the main airline and airport in The Netherlands have teamed up to invest in tech startup... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Amsterdam-based call center software firm Qelp acquired for up to €18.5 million | The Netherlands-based Qelp, a bootstrapped company that builds software for more than 60 mobile operators to help call center staff and customers configure and use smartphones, has been acquired by publicly listed Sykes Enterprises.
The Ams... |
| Jul 3, 2015 | PE firm Apax acquires Dutch retailers Wehkamp and Fonq | Private equity investment group Apax Partners has acquired RFS Holland Holding, the owner of Dutch online retail stores Wehkamp.nl, Fonq and Create2Fit. The British company paid about 450 million euros for the acquisition.
Anonymous sources... |
| Feb 20, 2015 | Nederland maakt goede sier met startups die bestanden delen | Vorige week signaleerden we al dat startups die het delen van studentenkamers makkelijker maken via het marktplaats-model tot wasdom komen in Nederland. Housinganywhere haalde 1 miljoen dollar op, terwijl Nestpick via Rocket Internet nu toe... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Eindelijk, met Adyen is er een Nederlandse unicorn. Wat betekent dat voor ons startup-ecosysteem? | Het is eindelijk zover: we hebben weer een Nederlandse unicorn. Payment provider Adyen uit Amsterdam maakte gisteren bekend 250 miljoen dollar opgehaald te hebben in nota bene pas een Series B-ronde bij lead investor General Atlantic, met s... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Dutch Gov't Speaks Out Against Exporting Internet Filters; Then Introduces National Internet Filter | On the same day that Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Verhagen announced efforts to prevent the export of internet filters to repressive regimes, State Secretary of Justice and Security Teeven announced the introduction of the national bl... |
| Unilever sales just miss expectations; Ben & Jerry’s ice cream unit heads for triple listing | Unilever posted a 4% rise in fourth-quarter underlying sales, slightly missing a 4.1% forecast. Over the full-year, underlying sales grew 4.2% versus estimates of 4.3%.
Sharing its 2025 outlook, the British firm said it expected full-year s... |
| Dutch 123inkt for sale for €500 mln | 123inkt, a Dutch e-tailer of print cartridges and office supplies, is for sale. The company is said to be worth at least 500 million euros. Since its last annual numbers, the company has grown significantly, sources say.
That is what source... |
| Dutch Security TechFund bouwt aan Management Security Services platform | In juni 2020 maakte het Dutch Security TechFund een start met de uitbouw van een bedrijf dat in staat is om voor (middel) grote bedrijven het veilig werken in zowel de cloud als traditionele infrastructuren mogelijk te maken. Door in septem... |
| BUX signs $80m Series C with Tencent, Endeit, and others | Europe’s leading neo-broker BUX announced today it raised $80 million from a group of investors to facilitate the company’s rapid expansion, and provide an ever-increasing number of young Europeans with the possibility to invest without com... |
| Amerikaans avontuur Nederlands fintech-bedrijf eindigt in miljoenenbod | Niet eerder ging er een fintech-bedrijf met Nederlandse roots voor zoveel geld van de hand. De Amerikaanse online bank Ally maakte dinsdag bekend dat het voor $275 mln TradeKing overneemt, de vermogensbeheerder die ontstond uit de fusie van... |
| Buckaroo acquired by Keensight Capital | Dutch payment service provider Buckaroo has been acquired by Keensight Capital for more than 150 million euros. The acquisition will be finalized in the second quarter of 2022. This is the third time that Buckaroo is sold. Dutch payments se... |
| Zooplus about to be taken over | Popular German online pet supply store Zooplus will soon have a new owner. Private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman and Swedish investor EQT are joining together to take over Zooplus. Zooplus is now valued at 3.4 billion euros. Fast growt... |
