Amsterdam-based startups that raised funding in July 2024; 5 of them are hiring

Amsterdam-based startups have been making waves with their successful funding rounds in July.

The increase in funding demonstrates the city’s thriving startup ecosystem and the innovative ideas being developed within it.

Besides funding, a handful of startups are actively looking to expand their teams, offering opportunities for job seekers in the area.

Having said that, let’s take a brief look at the startups that have secured funding this July and are currently hiring.

Uncover Legal

Founder/s: Caroline Zand-Korteweg, Ingrid van de Pol-Mensing

Funding in July 2024: Undisclosed

Hiring status: No

Uncover Legal provides AI-driven technologies for case analysis and support in the legal sector. The Amsterdam company focuses on increasing the efficiency and accuracy of lawyers and legal professionals in an increasingly digital market.

Ziemi

Founder/s: Luci Santema,

Funding in July 2024: Undisclosed

Hiring status: No

Ziemi aims to improve cycling safety through its biomotion lighting technology. The technology enhances cyclist visibility by illuminating their moving legs, making them 3 to 5.5 times more recognisable in low-light conditions and reducing the risk of side accidents.

The Amsterdam company’s solution offers 250-degree visibility and USB rechargeability, which helps cyclists feel safer on the road and addresses the rising number of cycling accidents.

Quatt

Founder/s:  Flipse, Marijn Flipse

Funding in July 2024: €25M

Hiring status: Yes| Apply here

Quatt develops, manufactures, and installs the Quatt Hybrid, a hybrid heat pump driven by smart software.

The Amsterdam company recently introduced two add-ons to Hybrid – the “All-Electric” heat pump and its patented cooling system “Chill.” 

According to the company, these hybrid heat pumps don’t require any additional changes to the home. The boiler stays active to produce domestic hot water and supports the pump when it can’t meet heating demand.

Lleverage

Founder/s: Lennard Kooy, Badr Eddial, Tom van Wees, Tim Beyer

Funding in July 2024: €2M

Hiring status: Yes| Apply here

Lleverage aims to make AI accessible to all software engineers, enabling them to build AI features without deep AI expertise.

The Amsterdam company does it through its low-code AI development and observability platform. It simplifies the creation, testing, and deployment of AI features.

The platform includes tools for building and testing prompts with various models, creating AI pipelines and workflows visually or through code, and monitoring and optimising performance.

Findest

Founder/s: Roel Boekel, Vincent Franken

Funding in July 2024: €2.2M

Hiring status: Yes| Apply here

Findest, a spin-off from VU University Amsterdam, is a technology scouting company that develops IGOR^AI to help customers like ASML, Philips, Unilever, and Shell find​ technologies ​for R&D challenges.

The Amsterdam company’s platform — R&D Universe is designed to revolutionise R&D departments by streamlining processes, driving substantial cost savings, and accelerating innovation projects.

The rising demand for advanced R&D across industries makes Universe an essential tool for new and existing Findest customers.

PAIX Data Centres

CEO: Wouter van Hulten

Funding in July 2024: €28M

Hiring status: Yes| Apply here

PAIX Data Centres is a pan-African data centre developer and operator. PAIX Data Centres offers reliable cloud and carrier-neutral colocation data center services across Africa.

The Amsterdam company provides high-quality services to its customers, allowing them to securely house,  protect, and connect their applications.

The data centers also facilitate connections to various telecommunication carriers, cloud platforms, internet service providers, and other customers.

Roboat

Founder/s: NA

Funding in July 2024: €550K

Hiring status: Yes| Apply here

Roboat aims to transform inland waterway transportation with advanced autonomous navigation systems, enabling ships to autonomously perceive, navigate, and perform complex tasks. 

Its AI-powered system handles heavy traffic in urban and inland waterways, serving new and retrofitted vessels for various applications like passenger transport, goods delivery, and waste collection, thereby reducing city logistics’ carbon footprint. 

longform.ai

Founder/s: Paul Groth, Pim Stouten

Funding in July 2024: €300K

Hiring status: No

longform.ai is developing a platform that deploys generative AI to extract insights from large amounts of audio data. The Amsterdam company does this by combining a unique technology pipeline with curated sources and AI-generated data, delivering relevant and valuable insights to its customers.

Avidicure

Founder/s: NA

Funding in July 2024: €37M 

Hiring status: No

Avidicure develops AVC-Boosters, supercharged antibodies that boost NK cell function at the tumor, activate the full immune system, and provide broad resistance to the tumor microenvironment. The company closed a seed round of €37M led by EQT Life Sciences.