Best Education Companies in Netherlands
The 270 best Education companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Esciencecenter.
If you want the best-funded Education companies in the Netherlands ranked by disclosed equity and recent momentum, you're looking at a $13M total across 270 tracked companies, with zero unicorns and a funding pool that's concentrated fast at the top. Esciencecenter leads at $4M, TommyTomato follows at $2M, and the rest cluster well below seven figures. That compression isn't unusual for a sector where the global education market sits near $2.1T and CAGR holds around 4.86%, but Dutch equity disclosure stays thin. Government bodies like the European Union and Europa show up as the most active backers here, which tells you something: institutional grants are doing the heavy lifting where private capital hasn't moved in yet.
So what's actually live right now? Median app install growth across 569 education and edtech titles is running at roughly +18% YoY, which I'd argue is the clearest demand signal in the space. Coverage themes are flat overall, but higher education funding battles are loud, and as shown in 2015 research on institutional knowledge constraints, structural friction in how schools access and deploy capital has deep roots. Legal and regulatory complexity keeps compounding that friction. The mobile usage curve is moving; the funding curve in the Netherlands hasn't caught up yet.
- Education construction lag not new to coronavirus crisis
Our analysis of 207 Education companies
$18.9b in tracked funding; 92% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Education companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abroad Internships Provider of abroad education consulting services | — | — | Unfunded | — | DrupalPHPApache HTTP Server+8 | — | 2 internships |
| 2 | Academica (North Holland) Een leven lang leren gaat over ons allemaal. | — | — | Private | 70 | HubSpot CMS HubSentryApple iCloud Mail+15 | — | — |
| 3 | ACE Venture Lab Provider of after-school science classes | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Achterkamp Provider of safety training intended to ensure safety for people and the environment. | — | — | Acquired | 25 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | — |
| 5 | AgileWalls Provider of designing services intended to offer obeya style training room for corporation. | — | — | Acquired | 2 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 6 | Akoesticum Provides music & dance training services | — | — | Funding Raised | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
| 7 | alex van groningen bv Alex van Groningen BV specialized itself in offering financial services such as financial auditing, report… | — | — | Acquired | 56 | WordPressCart FunctionalityMySQL+20 | — | — |
| 8 | Allente Chains providing childcare, preschool, after-school programs, and host parent services | — | — | Unfunded | 190 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Bootstrap+12 | — | — |
Top 12 Education companies in Netherlands
#1
Funding Raised · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland · founded 2012 · 97 employees$4.1Mraised▾
The Netherlands eScience Center is the national center of excellence for the development and application of research software to advance academic research. We are convinced that research in every academic discipline can be improved by taking advantage of available digital technology. We take a multidisciplinary approach, combining our deep knowledge of both academic research and software development to help define and solve research challenges. We share our ideas and the tools we develop.
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$618.5K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$775.8K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$917.4K
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$831.6K
#2
Seed · Haarlem, North Holland · founded 2020$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of learning to eat healthy for kids
- Apr 2024Seed$1.9M
#3
Seed · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2013 · 234 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online tutor discovery platform for kids. It allows kids to select school type, courses, and pin code to find tutors. Kids can find tutors on subjects like biology, German, economy, history, physics, chemistry, math, and more.
- Apr 2022Seed$917.3K
- 2021Seed$566.3K
#4
Funding Raised · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland · founded 2012$261.2Kraised▾
Provider of fashion design and business education programmes. It offers bachelor's degrees in fashion design and fashion business & innovation, as well as pre-bachelor programmes and part-time courses in various fashion-related specializations. The curriculum includes foundation diplomas, fast-track options, and summer courses. Students receive personal support and benefit from industry partnerships. The programmes are validated by a UK university.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$261.2K
#5
Funding Raised · Leeuwarden, Friesland · founded 2018 · 10 employees$1Mraised▾
With 3,000 bachelor and master students from more than 50 countries and 12,000 alumni worldwide, Hotel Management School NHL Stenden is the largest and most internationally oriented hotel school in Europe. Hotel Management School is part of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and for the past 30 years has been renowned for its hospitality, open atmosphere and adept teachers. Having Real World Learning as leading principle, students are able to hit the ground running: they experience the real world through practice, internationalization and engaging in research with the industry.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$252.8K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$747.3K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$27.9K
#6
Funding Raised · Alkmaar, North Holland · founded 2003 · 4 employees$906.9Kraised▾
College offering multiple courses and degrees across diversified streams
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$272.9K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$17.7K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$420.3K
- Dec 2016Grant (prize money)—
#7
Funding Raised · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014$682Kraised▾
College offering multiple courses and degrees in management stream
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$127.4K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$554.6K
#8
Funding Raised · Netherlands · founded 2004$72.1Kraised▾
Developer of educational programs for youth development. These programs are designed for social organizations, government entities, and educational institutions focused on the well-being and development of children, young people, and adults. A specialization exists in creating secure educational environments for youth detention and care settings, and the company participates in various European projects in this area. The programs utilize digital literacy skills and creative concepts to support learning and development.
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$72.1K
#9
Funding Raised · Zoetermeer, South Holland · founded 2016 · 17 employees$709.3Kraised▾
We are a team of ambitious professionals working towards the mission of breaking internationalization barriers for tech companies, ecosystem builders, and governments all over the world. We offer a wide range of services to achieve that, such as: workshops and training, business missions & soft-landings, consulting services, and a SaaS platform.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$709.3K
#10
Funding Raised · Netherlands · founded 2017$309.2Kraised▾
Provider of research, training, and networking for age-friendly environments. It offers services supporting the implementation of smart, healthy, age-friendly environments. This includes research projects, e-learning platform development, stakeholder engagement, and policy recommendations. The company facilitates collaboration among older adults, public authorities, and other relevant organizations to create more accessible and inclusive living and working spaces. Its expertise encompasses policy development, impact assessment, and training programs designed to build capacity in this field.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$113.5K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$195.8K
#11
Late Stage · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 1871$287.2Kraised▾
Center of education providing professional education courses
#12
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 30 employees$417.6Kraised▾
Nimbles provides an online platform for finding tutors near the neighborhood. Teachers can be rated on the platform. For becoming a tutor, a user has to signup in the platform. Tutors can specify their time and hourly rates on which the student can choose tutors around them. Provides marketing tool and manages the business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, and communication tools. Finalist in TedX Amsterdam startup awards.
- Jan 2017Seed$417.6K
Funding & investor landscape
AWS EdStart1 roundsNotable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Education coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Education Technology is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Education Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 340 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Open University of the Netherlands42
- Delft University of Technology33
- University of Twente31
- Utrecht University31
- Maastricht University26
- Adaptation (eye)13
- Bridge (graph theory)12
- Multidisciplinary approach10
- Dissemination9
- Massive open online course9
- Educational technology13→31
- Professional development1→11
- Mathematics education10→19
- Blended learning4→13
- Active learning (machine learning)1→10
- Educational technology6→18
- Higher education1→12
- Learning analytics4→12
- Analytics4→12
- Literacy1→5
Where edtech 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
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