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March 12, 2019

Insider view: Amsterdam’s friendly tech community

With two public listings last year, and an ever-closer community, Amsterdam’s startup scene is growing up.


Amy Lewin

5 min read

Credit: Marco Nürnberger/Flickr.

The Netherlands is such a small country — it’s possible to get from one side to the other in three hours — that it might make more sense to look at its startup ecosystem as a whole, rather than taking city by city. But, says Patrick Nijssen, general manager at coworking space TQ, while cities like Delft and Eindhoven excel at deep tech, Amsterdam is still the place to come for “a blend of everything”.

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Coworking space TQ. Credit: Twycer.
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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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