Amsterdam software company Conversed.ai raised growth capital from a group of investors this week, while fellow Amsterdam startup Neno closed a seed round of 6.6 million euros. Together, the two rounds illustrate how broadly AI is now being applied across the Amsterdam startup scene, from customer service to business administration.
Conversed.ai, founded by entrepreneur Sander van der Kraan, develops and optimises AI agents for businesses, with a focus on healthcare and B2B SaaS, alongside activity in finance and e-commerce. The company has carved out a specific niche: improving the knowledge bases that power customer service chatbots. According to Van der Kraan, outdated or contradictory information is rarely the result of poor management, but simply a consequence of everyday business change, information that customers and AI chatbots nonetheless treat as current fact. The new investment will allow Conversed.ai to develop its platform faster as the underlying language models improve, and to invest more deliberately in marketing. The identities of the investors have not been disclosed, though entrepreneur Michiel Mol is joining the company’s advisory board, alongside Maarten Elshove and Walter Hueber. Van der Kraan is handing day-to-day leadership to Sagar Schoneveld to focus on the company’s further international expansion.
Neno, founded by Nick Knuppe, is building an AI-native workspace that combines accounting, tax, payroll and business banking for small and medium-sized businesses into a single platform. The 6.6 million euro seed round is led by New York-based venture fund AlleyCorp, with participation from Motive Partners, Firstminute Capital and a group of angel investors, including executives from Hugging Face, Mollie, Juni, Deel, Miro, Coinbase, PayPal and Navro. Since launching in the Netherlands in early 2026, Neno has grown to nearly 200 customers, including SOUS, FeedbackFruits and The Cirqle. With the new funding, Neno is launching its own research unit, Neno Labs, and investing further in what it calls “Ambient AI,” alongside expanding its accounting and tax teams ahead of European growth planned for 2027.
Both rounds underline that capital in Amsterdam’s AI sector is flowing not only toward research labs and large language models, but also toward companies using AI to automate ordinary, everyday work in customer service and business administration.
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