Scaleups in Amsterdam

Updated July 2026. We published this list in December 2021. Rather than quietly delete it, we have kept all ten original picks exactly as written and added what actually happened to each one, because the outcomes turned out to be far more instructive than the list ever was.

The short version: five of these ten no longer exist as independent Amsterdam companies, and only three of the ten careers links we originally sent people to still lead to a real job today. Four now 404 outright, two redirect to an empty job-board placeholder, and one is still cheerfully advertising vacancies at a company that was liquidated in 2024. One of our picks had already been acquired on the day we published it, and we did not notice. If you are job hunting in Amsterdam right now, the last two sections are the ones you want.

The 2021 list, scored in 2026

In our earlier blogs we listed 10 young and fast growing Dutch startups that are hiring growth talent and 10 cool scaleups in the Netherlands to work for. In this blog we gave another overview of 10 Dutch scaleups that were hiring for growth.

These are 10 scaleups in Amsterdam that were hiring growth talent

24sessions

24sessions is a video-first customer engagement platform. With their scheduling, video calling and analytics solution they enable frictionless remote experiences. With a series A round last year, an office launched in Paris and named the 16th fastest growing tech company in the Netherlands, they are up for their next session of growth, with you.

Where they are now: gone, and awkwardly, they were already gone when we published this. MessageBird (now Bird) acquired 24sessions on 30 March 2021, nine months before this piece ran. The 45-person team moved across, with co-founder Rutger Teunissen staying on to run the video product as a business unit. The Recruitee board we linked to now redirects to a "careers not hosted" placeholder. This one is on us: we quoted a funding round from "last year" as evidence a company was independently scaling, and never checked whether it still was.

WeTransfer

WeTransfer was founded in 2009 as the simplest way to send big files around the world. One of the ways they make money is by selling beautiful advertisement space instead of the annoying ads you are used to. WeTransfer provides about one third of the ads space to artists and charities so they can showcase their art and cause for free. It's speculated that WeTransfer is preparing an IPO so a lot is happening on their front. Interesting company to be part of so you might want to take the transfer.

Where they are now: the IPO speculation was correct, which did not help anyone. Parent company WeRock filed to list on Euronext Amsterdam at €17.50 to €20.50 per share, a €629M to €716M valuation, aiming to raise roughly €125M. Then it cancelled the listing on 27 January 2022, one day before it was due to happen, citing market volatility despite what it called substantial investor demand. Six weeks after we called it an interesting company to be part of. In July 2024 Italian app consolidator Bending Spoons bought WeTransfer, and that September it confirmed it would cut about 75% of WeTransfer's 350-plus staff, roughly 260 people. Bending Spoons itself rang the bell on Nasdaq on 1 July 2026 at an $18.4 billion valuation. The IPO happened. Just not for the people who built the product.

Zivver

Zivver makes sure their customers can share sensitive information through email and video calls in a safe way. Especially customers in industries like healthcare, finance, legal and the public sector love Zivver's platform because, well, loads of sensitive data. Named the second fastest growing tech company in the Netherlands and backed with $17M VC funding they're ready to grow even faster. Joining the Zivver team is a safe bet.

Where they are now: acquired, though this is the softest landing on the list. California's Kiteworks announced it was buying Zivver in June 2025, folding the zero-access encryption product into its Private Data Network and explicitly committing to keep Zivver hosted inside the EU for data sovereignty reasons. The product lives, the Amsterdam office lives, and the team was the point of the deal rather than an overlap to be cut. But the second fastest growing tech company in the Netherlands is now a business unit of an American company, which is a different job to the one we described. The workat.zivver.eu board we linked no longer resolves at all, and Zivver's own /careers URL still redirects to that dead host, so bookmark careers-at-zivver instead.

Framer

Framer is a free prototyping tool for teams. On Framer's platform users can develop web- and mobile prototypes using Framer's native tools but also a marketplace of third party integrations. Founded by two ex-Facebook employees in 2014 who have raised tens of millions, this a journey designed to impress.

Where they are now: the standout success of this list, and no longer the product we described. Framer abandoned prototyping and became a no-code website builder, which turned out to be a far bigger business than the one we praised it for. In August 2025 it raised $100M in a Series D at a $2 billion valuation, led by returning investors Meritech and Atomico with WiL and HV Capital participating, on roughly half a million monthly active users. One honest caveat for Amsterdam job hunters: Framer was founded here and still runs an Amsterdam office alongside San Francisco and Barcelona, but its careers page currently lists around a dozen roles that are overwhelmingly remote or US-based, with nothing Amsterdam-specific. It is the best company on this list and the least likely to give you an Amsterdam desk.

Virtuagym

Virtuagym is a SaaS company that provides fitness tools for consumers and business solutions for health clubs, personal trainers, physiotherapists and corporate health services. They currently support around 7.000 business clients and have over 16 million end-users all over the world. With a lot of people at home in current times, the apps got a significant boost of users in the last year. Virtuagym is looking for some heavy weights to join their muscle machine.

Where they are now: still independent, still Amsterdam, still hiring, and roughly double the size. Virtuagym's own jobs page claims 170-plus employees across 33-plus nationalities working out of Amsterdam and Medellín, and the company now reports over 9,000 fitness business customers and around 30 million consumer users across 80 countries, up from the 7,000 clients and 16 million users we quoted in 2021. It did that without a headline mega-round, which is the quiet lesson here. The caveat: open roles at the time of writing skew commercial (account management and sales, Amsterdam hybrid or fully remote) rather than engineering, so the muscle machine is hiring, just not for every discipline.

Hiber

Internet of Things (IoT) playtime is over. Hiber decided to have SpaceX launch Hiber's satellites into space to help their clients do actual useful stuff with IoT on the ground like measuring water supply, soil temperature, gas pressure or even tracking livestock. Hiber is funded by European and VC money and is despite some hick ups due to covid still one very interesting company to join. Time to measure up because Hiber is looking for talent.

Where they are now: "some hick ups" was doing a lot of work in that sentence. Hiber quietly gave up on running its own constellation and moved its Hiberband service onto Inmarsat's ELERA network. In June 2022 Swiss operator Astrocast agreed to buy Hiber in an all-share deal worth about 16.5% of Astrocast, with Hiber's shareholders committing €10.45M to Astrocast's planned Euronext Growth Paris offering. The listing failed, so the acquisition collapsed with it. Hiber, which had raised around €26M in EU and private money in 2021, was granted a moratorium in June 2023 (the Dutch route to creditor protection), then restarted after FC Space, a wholly owned subsidiary of Finch Capital, acquired it and narrowed the whole company down to HiberHilo, remote well monitoring for energy companies. Astrocast, the company that nearly bought it, was declared bankrupt by the Lausanne District Court on 19 March 2026 and now trades under the name Astrocast SA en liquidation. Satellites are expensive.

EVBox

EVBox has built flexible Electric Vehicle (EV) charging solutions for businesses and homes. EVBox has recently hit an important milestone of 200.000 EV charging pods worldwide, showing their solution is more relevant than ever. The already huge EVBox team is hiring and ready to charge you up.

Where they are now: wound down. In June 2024 majority owner Engie told the European Works Council it intended to discontinue EVBox, and by that October the decision to liquidate the group was confirmed. EVBox had posted around €800M of losses since Engie took over in 2017, the large majority of that in the final four years, including a €22M loss in the first quarter of 2024 alone. Roughly 700 people were affected: about 30 jobs were preserved at the Bordeaux site when Financière de Pessac took over the EVTronic operations, and around 100 staff were redeployed into a new Netherlands after-sales subsidiary to support existing customers. There had also been a failed attempt to take EVBox public back in 2021, right around the time we were writing this. The 200,000 charging pods were real. The milestone was real. It still was not a business, and "the already huge EVBox team is hiring" aged worse than anything else we wrote here. The genuinely unsettling part: the careers page we linked to in 2021 is still up, still branded "shape the future of mobility with EVBox", still listing openings and still accepting unsolicited applications, nearly two years after the group was wound down. We are deliberately not linking it. If you ever needed proof that a live-looking careers page is not evidence of a live company, this is it.

Adyen

Adyen provides payment services like online, in-app and POS payment solutions. Adyen is a unicorn that went public a couple of years ago, so they're a grownup rather than a scaleup. Adyen is constantly expanding on international grounds and that means extending the team at lightspeed. Adyen's career page is full of interesting career opportunities so pay attention.

Where they are now: exactly what we said, only much more so. The one entry where calling it "a grownup rather than a scaleup" was the right call. Adyen reported full year 2025 net revenue of €2,364.2 million, up 18% year on year (21% in constant currency), processed volume of €1,394.3 billion, and EBITDA of €1,245.7 million at a 53% margin, up from 50% in 2024. It guides to 20% to 22% constant-currency net revenue growth for 2026 and has said headcount will grow slightly more than in 2025, weighted towards US hiring and specialised financial-product roles. The Amsterdam vacancies page is the only link from the original ten that still works exactly as it did in 2021. Pay attention, as we said.

Dott

Dott is offering clean rides all over Europe with their on demand e-scooters. They are currently introducing a new electric bike sharing service which they are launching in Paris and London. An international company with wild plans to extent their footprint. Do you have the drive to join Dott?

Where they are now: still here, roughly double the size, having absorbed its largest rival. Dott merged with Berlin's TIER, formed TIER-Dott in March 2024, and from 1 October 2024 retired the TIER brand entirely and moved everything onto Dott. The combined company runs roughly 250,000 e-scooters and e-bikes across more than 400 cities in 21 countries, on about €250M of revenue and 10 million users. The e-bike expansion we mentioned did happen, though consolidation rather than growth is what kept the company alive: European micromobility spent the intervening years running out of cheap capital. The lever.co board we linked is dead; ridedott.com/join-us is the current one, and it is a much smaller list than the merger headcount would suggest.

Bitfury

Bitfury is an emerging technologies company on a mission to make the world a little more secure and trusted through the use of AI, blockchain, bitcoin and high-performance computing. Bitfury is a true crypto-native startup and is recognized globally as one of the leading blockchain companies. I heard this crypto thing is going to be big, want to jump in?

Where they are now: alive, considerably rearranged, and the entry we should have been most sceptical about. Bitfury was the loosest fit for "home base in Amsterdam" even in 2021: the group had Dutch registration, but the actual work was spread across mining sites and offices worldwide, and today Bitfury's own site does not present itself as an Amsterdam company at all. Much of the mining business now sits in two Nasdaq-listed spinoffs, Cipher Mining and Hut 8. The parent has moved towards investing: in November 2025 it launched a $1 billion initiative to back companies in AI, quantum computing and decentralised systems, saying it would deploy about $200 million of it within a year. The greenhouse board we linked is dead; bitfury.com/careers is live. And yes, this crypto thing did turn out to be big, just not in a way that produced many Amsterdam jobs.

Who from this list is actually worth applying to in 2026

If you came here from a search engine looking for an Amsterdam job, this is the part that matters. Three of the ten are straightforwardly worth your time:

• Adyen: the largest and most stable, genuinely Amsterdam-headquartered, and the hardest to get into. Its own guidance says 2026 hiring leans US and specialised finance roles, so Amsterdam competition is fierce.
• Virtuagym: the only company here that is still an actual Amsterdam scaleup in the sense we meant in 2021. Currently weighted towards commercial roles, so check before you plan an engineering move.
• Framer: by far the best business outcome on the list, but hiring remote-first. Great company, unlikely Amsterdam office job.

Two more are alive but are a different proposition than advertised: Dott is now a consolidated pan-European operator rather than a fast-growing scaleup, and Bitfury is a globally spread group whose parent increasingly acts as an investor. Both are legitimate employers. Neither is the Amsterdam scaleup this article originally sold you.

What a five-year-old scaleup list actually teaches you

We could have deleted this page. Leaving it up with the receipts attached is more useful, because the failure modes here are the ones every job hunter falls for:

Growth rankings are not survival signals. Zivver was named the second fastest growing tech company in the Netherlands and got acquired. 24sessions was the 16th and had already been acquired before we hit publish. "Fastest growing" measures a slope, not a runway.

Money raised is a cost, not a moat. EVBox had the deepest pockets on this list, a giant French utility behind it, and it consumed roughly €800M before being switched off. Hiber raised €26M and had SpaceX launching its hardware. Neither fact protected a single job.

The winner won by abandoning the thing we praised. Framer is worth $2 billion because it stopped being the prototyping tool we recommended it as. If you had joined for the product described in this article, you would have ended up somewhere else entirely. That is usually a good sign, not a bad one.

A live careers page proves nothing. Seven of our ten links no longer lead to a job, but EVBox is the one to remember: its careers page still loads, still lists roles, and still takes applications for a company that no longer exists. A working vacancy page proves a server is running, not that anyone is on the other end. Any "top scaleups hiring" list, this one included, is a snapshot that starts decaying the day it publishes. Check the funding, the news and the LinkedIn headcount trend before you check the perks.

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