Best Auto Companies in Netherlands
The 322 best Auto companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CarNext.
Netherlands Auto is more concentrated than you'd expect: 322 companies tracked, $1.3B in total disclosed funding, and not a single unicorn in the mix. CarNext leads the pack at $475M raised, followed by Accell Group at $394M and Kendrion at $150M. That top-three alone accounts for the bulk of the capital, which tells you something about how funding clusters here. Investors like Parcom and EAG keep circling the same proven operators rather than spreading thin across early-stage bets.
So what's moving the sector right now? Median app install growth across automotive categories is running at roughly +22% YoY, a signal that consumer-facing digital tools are gaining real traction. Coverage themes are shifting too: vehicle sales forecasts dominate analyst attention, and autonomous logistics is arriving faster than most incumbents planned for, as Delhivery's recent drone testing makes clear. Meanwhile, as shown in EV market expansion trends, electrification momentum is reshaping the broader auto segment in ways the Netherlands market can't ignore. I'd watch how companies like Omnetic ($107M) and DAF Trucks ($118M) respond to that pressure over the next two quarters.
- Middle-income consumers turning more toward used cars, survey finds
- Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
- Auto industry sales satisfaction declines for the first time in eight
Our analysis of 256 Auto companies
$29.3b in tracked funding; 77% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Auto companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 247auto Bidding based car buying platform for dealers | — | — | — | 2013 | Theo van der Plaats Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 3-Elite Provider of remote controls, hydraulic pumps, PTO, and winches for the automotive industry | — | — | — | 2005 | Herman Albers Spierings Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | ABS Manufacturer of brake, steering & wheel bearing parts | — | — | — | 1978 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — | — |
| 4 | ACS Towbar Systems Manufacturer of detachable towbar systems | — | — | — | 1997 | — | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+23 | — | — | — |
| 5 | adex bv Adex BV are manufacturer and designer of aluminium extrusion dies. | — | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | 4 patents Aluminum extrusion die components and tooling for shaping aluminum profiles | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 6 | AGM Brand of scooters | — | — | — | 2004 | Robert Olsthoorn Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — | — |
| 7 | All4Car Wholesaler of automotive equipment and special tools based in Echt, Netherlands. | — | — | 5 | 2009 | — | BootstrapTypekitMicrosoft 365+1 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Allers Bedrijfswagens Retailer of commercial trucks based in Venlo, Netherlands. | — | — | 220 | 1945 | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Auto companies in Netherlands
#1
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017 · 615 employees$474.8Mraised▾
Online P2P marketplace for used cars. Their platform allows buyers to choose the cars they want to buy, select a payment method & get the car delivered or pick it up from their stores. Car owners can sell their cars via the platform. Their platform also provides vehicle guarantees, return policies, car inspection, financing & more.
- Jul 2024Series D$250.6K
- Jul 2021Series D$474.5M
#2
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 1991$107.4Mraised▾
Business management solutions for automotive dealerships. The platform offers solutions that includes sales management, operations management, and more.
- Feb 2024PE$107.4M
#3
Acquired · Heerenveen, Friesland · founded 1998 · 3500 employees$393.9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of bicycles and parts. Its other products include bicycle accessories and e-bikes. It also provides design services.
- Nov 2018Post IPO—
- Feb 2013Conventional Debt$393.9M
#4
Late Stage · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 1928$118.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of truck brands
#5
Acquired · Zeist, Utrecht · founded 1999 · 2652 employees$150Mraised▾
Kendrion (formerly Magneta) develops electromagnetic components for industrial and automotive sectors such as solenoids, holding magnets etc. For the industrial sector, their offerings are classified into Industrial magnetic systems, industrial control systems, and industrial drive systems. In the automotive division, the company has offerings for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The product offerings include valves, sensors, ECUs, engine cooling systems, clutches, compressor drives etc.
- Aug 2014Conventional Debt$150M
#6
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 1998$95Mraised▾
Offers automotive electronic product designing and development services
- Jul 2001Series C$45M
#7
Seed · Rotterdam, South Holland · founded 2021 · 9 employees$1.4Mraised▾
App-based platform for renting electric cargo bikes. Users can rent bikes through the app by providing location, personal details, and more. Bikes can be located through the app, unlocked, ridden, and then park in legal parking zones at the end of the ride. Their app is available for both Android and iOS devices.
- Dec 2022Seed$1.4M
#8
Funding Raised · Nuenen, North Brabant · founded 1990$240.1Kraised▾
Provides online learning platform to automotive professionals like dealers, OEMs, fleet and leasing companies, etc on topics like new vehicle distribution, retailing used vehicles
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$240.1K
#9
Funding Raised · Valkenswaard, North Brabant · founded 1993 · 15000 employees$990Kraised▾
Manufacturer of buses
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$387.2K
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$602.8K
#10
Acquired · Helmond, North Brabant · founded 2012$405.8Kraised▾
Provider of safer & smarter vehicles and testing services
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$64.2K
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$341.6K
#11
Funding Raised · Naarden, North Holland · founded 1997$118.3Kraised▾
Gomecsys is a Dutch engineering company that specializes in developing fuel-saving internal combustion engine technology. Their Variable Compression Ratio (VCR) technology offers advantages such as an 8% reduction in CO₂ emissions, zero impact on existing engine architecture, and fully variable compression ratios.
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$59.3K
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$59.1K
#12
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 1968 · 2700 employees—raised▾
Provider of maintenance & repair services for vehicles
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Auto coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Autonomous Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 222 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Delft University of Technology59
- University of Twente22
- Eindhoven University of Technology21
- Leiden University Medical Center17
- Terra13
- Computer vision2→4
- Transport engineering1→5
- CADASIL1→4
- Context (archaeology)10
- Humanities9
- Cadastre6
- Human–computer interaction5
- Automotive industry5
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Netherlands
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.