According to the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2024, The Netherlands rank 1987 startups based on an algorithm that considers factors such as total investment, quarterly employee count, and website traffic. Startups in The Netherlands are falling behind the performance of their global counterparts.

Global Startup Map and Startup Rankings

The Global Startup Map and Startup Rankings helps you identify the best startups in 1,000 cities and 100 countries through its ever-growing database of over 120,000 startups, as well as startup unicorns, exits and the influential startup ecosystem stakeholders.

How to Find Startups?

Our Global Startup Map and Startup Rankings helps you identify the best startups in 1,000 cities and 100 countries through its ever-growing database of over 120,000 startups. You can browse startups by region, country, and city, and filter them based on 12 startup industries and over 100 sub-industries.

Where are the Best Places for Startups?

If you’re looking for the best places for startups, StartupBlink’s Global Startup map can help you to identify the locations with a critical amount of startup activity, as well as startup ecosystem rankings based on various factors such as regions and industries.

Which country has the highest number of startups?

The United States has the highest number of startups with a population that is just a fraction of China and India. The United States is followed by China and the United Kingdom.

Which industry is best for startups?

There is no one size fits all for startups. The decision on deciding on which industry to build your startup depends on your expertise, strengths and capabilities. However, based on our data 31.95% of the sampled startups are found in the Software & Data industry, followed by Healthtech that has 12.83%.

What is considered a startup?

We define a startup as any business that applies an innovative, technology-enabled solution with the potential to achieve scalability. For us, innovation is the key aspect of startups, whether it's in technology or a distinct business model. Hence, our global startup map excludes service providers and local directories like real estate listings from its definition of startups and doesn't include them on their map.

StartupBlink classifies what isn't a startup, noting cases like startup failure, becoming a Unicorn (valuation over $1 billion while private), going public, or being acquired by another entity (prior to reaching $1 billion valuation). While these success stories are not counted as startups, they are essential for evaluating the quality of a startup ecosystem. StartupBlink recognizes them uniquely on their map and rankings as Exits, Unicorns, or Pantheons.