Two of our Golden Egg Check Capital portfolio companies are among the 10 hottest startups in Amsterdam according to Wired 🔥🔥

🏡 Haaven is a one-stop shop for building beautiful tiny houses

⚡️ Coolgradient utilizes machine learning to help datacenters reduce energy consumption

Coolgradient

By 2030, data centers could use 3.2 percent of global electricity consumption. However, few data center operators can effectively control their energy and water usage, which is a looming disaster for the climate. Enter Coolgradient, founded by Jasper de Vries and René Gompel in 2023, with the aim of reducing 1 percent of the global energy consumption by cooling data centers. Providing detailed visibility into the performance of all center assets, from the roof to the room, its machine learning models analyze data from existing data center assets such as cooling systems and power distribution units. It then identifies inefficiencies and offers solutions for continuous optimization, saving up to 40 percent in utilities usage. In May, it completed an undisclosed funding round from the early-stage impact investor 4impact with participation of Golden Egg Check and angel investors.

Haaven

Haaven, founded by Thomas Leeson, Davide Cardu, Sacha Bloem, and Dédé Kruisman in 2023, is a one-stop shop for building tiny houses—that’s any space smaller than 50 square meters, which makes them easy to transport as a single module or flat-pack on a truck. Consumers pick a design from the collection, personalize it, and within 15 weeks, they have a new, carbon-neutral space courtesy of a network of engineers and prefab construction companies. Prices range from €1,500 ($1,100) per square meters for a finished exterior only, while one including floors, lighting, a kitchen and furniture runs up to €5,000 ($5,500) per square meters. All quotes are final, so there’s no project creep as with traditional construction. The firm works with starchitect firms such as Sigurd Larsen and Park + Associates, has built 30 spaces to date, and raised €1.1 million ($1.2 million) in pre-seed funding, led by Speedinvest, Golden Egg Check, and angel investors.

Read the full Wired article here: https://www.wired.com/story/the-hottest-startups-in-amsterdam-in-2024/