Raised capital Dutch ventures is cut in half

A golden age of increasing investments in Dutch ventures has ended. Our startups and scaleups have raised approximately €1.27 billion in venture capital in the past quarter. That is less than half the capital for Dutch ventures in Q2 2021, when the scene raised a record-breaking equity-capital of €2.48 billion.

This is the outcome of EBITWISE’s Dutch Venture Capital Quarterly, a quarterly analysis of all published investment rounds by startups and scaleups from the Netherlands. (Read the press release here)

Ebit’s open-sourced results show that indeed, as the world-famous startup accelerator Y-Combinator yet identified in May, the funding prospects for ventures are fading due to major global economic setbacks related to the war in Ukraine.

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Large investment rounds lag behind

Especially the number of Series A to F deals has decreased. Our previously open-sourced Q1 2022 report includes ten investment rounds that exist of venture capital from €25 million up to €50 million. For Q2, there is none of this kind of deal size.

Thanks to a major €420 mln investment round by Perpetual Next our Dutch venture scene still surpassed the €1 billion mark the past quarter. Other substantial investments were raised by Backbase, Pyramid Analytics, In3, Smart Photonics and TestGorilla.