Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Amsterdam
Every Amsterdam scale-up everyone talks about started as five people in a Zuidas co-working desk, with no ops function and a shared spreadsheet.
Before the growth curve, there's just a small team
Amsterdam's reputation as a European fintech and tech hub is built on companies that grew from a handful of founders into several hundred people within a few years. What gets less attention is the stage before any of that: a founder, an engineer or two, and a product that doesn't exist yet, working out of a shared desk near the Zuidas or from home, deciding day to day whether the next hour goes toward the build or the first candidate call.
That team doesn't have a scale-up's problems yet, an unreadable spreadsheet at eighty people, a rollout that takes a quarter. It has a smaller, more immediate one: every subscription competes with runway, and a tool built for the company the founder hopes to become in three years is often the wrong tool for the five people who exist today.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a founding team to run its first product cycle without a software cost. One subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together past that, so the eventual move from five people toward a growth curve doesn't mean a new tool for every function that comes online.
Before the growth curve arrives, a founder covering three roles at once has no spare time to parse a full project before deciding what matters today, so the default screen is "my day": today's items, a one-tap time log, and a single tap to flag being blocked that routes straight to whoever can help.
What an early Amsterdam startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, not a trial that expires right as the product starts finding real users.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each keep their own board, so growing past five people doesn't mean adding a tool for every function that arrives with it.
No configuration project, no rollout quarter. A board's usable the moment it's created.
Decisions made when the company is three people sit next to the work, with page history, so they're still findable long after headcount changes.
"My day" opens by default rather than a full project: today's assigned items, a one-tap time log, and a tap to flag being blocked that routes directly to whoever can help.
The tool a scale-up would have wished it started with
A shared spreadsheet that worked at five people becomes unreadable well before eighty, and the usual fix is buying enterprise software built for a company ten times the size, with a rollout that eats a quarter nobody has to spare. Starting on a tool that's already built to hold up past twenty, thirty, eighty people means that migration never has to happen at all.
ShipSprint's boards carry WIP limits so a team plans against real capacity from day one, not just once growth makes it urgent, and the same forecast, calculated from measured velocity, works whether the team is five people or fifty.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in India, with no Amsterdam office or Dutch entity. Support is handled remotely, by email and in-app chat. Billing runs in rupees; check the current exchange rate for your budgeting, and confirm VAT treatment with your own finance team.
Structure worth keeping past the scale-up stage doesn't include watching how each hour was spent to get there. Screenshots, keystroke logs and activity trackers aren't part of the product at any plan. A scorecard, built from delivered work and hours a person logs themselves and adjusted for leave, belongs to that person, whatever headcount the company reaches later.
Questions from Amsterdam startups
It's permanent. Up to 5 users and 2 projects, no time limit, with the same product a paying team gets at that scope. A lot of early Amsterdam teams run their whole first year on it.
No. The contracting entity is Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India, with no local subsidiary. Billing is in rupees rather than euros.
It's per seat throughout, no jump to an "enterprise" tier just for headcount. Team is ₹299 per user per month up to 40 users, Business is ₹599 with no seat cap and adds forecasting, scorecards, SSO and priority support.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, with no seat cap, adding forecasting, scorecards, SSO, priority support and unlimited projects. See the pricing page for the full structure.
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