Startups & Venture Capital Writer, Dutch Business Review
Lotte Jansen writes about Dutch startups, venture capital and scaleups, following funding from pre-seed through growth rounds. She covers Amsterdam's software and fintech market as well as deep-tech clusters around Eindhoven, Delft and other university cities.
Her reporting pays close attention to funding concentration, investor behaviour and whether headline capital totals are translating into a broader pipeline of new companies.
Dutch startups raised roughly €2.3 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by large deep-tech, AI and quantum rounds. Why funding concentration matters for the ecosystem.