Amsterdam, 27 January 2025 – We’re thrilled to announce that 10x.Team has been nominated for MT/Sprout’s prestigious Startup of the Year Award. This exciting nomination follows our recent recognition by WIRED as one of the 10 hottest startups in the Netherlands and among the top 100 in Europe – a testament to the incredible momentum we’re building together with our community of visionary companies, talented fractional professionals, and our awesome team who believe in building something revolutionary together.
Why is this Startup of the Year nomination meaningful to us?
Not only are we honoured to be nominated alongside other innovative companies that are also pushing boundaries in their respective fields including GoDutch, Spatium Medical, Q*Bird, SparkBase, Elysian Aircraft, Ore Energy, No Waste Army, and MENDED...BUT we’re on a mission to reinvent how companies build their leadership team with fractional experts that can help to accelerate their business goals.
The truth is that traditional hiring methods no longer work in today’s fast-paced world. Businesses move too quickly to rely on lengthy recruitment cycles or one-size-fits-all solutions, especially when the expertise needed may not even require a full-time hire. That’s where fractional hiring comes in: at 10X, we connect companies with exceptional C-level professionals on-demand, who deliver 10X the outcomes, exactly when and where they’re needed.
As companies grow increasingly fast, they often need various types of expertise but rarely require full-time positions for all roles.
“Traditional recruitment is too time-consuming and too one-dimensional for the dynamic needs of today,” explains Angelique Schouten, co-founder of 10x.Team. “Old-fashioned companies are often reluctant to try more flexible talent models that don’t rely on the same pool of candidates that everyone is looking at. This limits their access to diverse expertise and fresh perspectives. We are changing all that with 10x.”
And the response speaks for itself: We’re proudly collaborating with 60+ companies, helping them scale their leadership with flexibility and impact.
Want to support our mission to transform how companies build their leadership teams? Cast your vote here before February 4th, 2025.
The winner will be announced on February 11, 2025.
P.S. Congrats and good luck to the rest of the startups and founders nominated this year! Just to name a few:
GoDutch: Thomas Vles
Q*Bird: Ingrid Romijn, Remon Berrevoets, and Joshua Slater
Sparkbase: Jan de Wulf
Elysian Aircraft: Daniel Rosen Jacobson, Rob Wolleswinkel, and Reynard De Vries
Ore Energy: Yaiza Gonzalez Garcia and Aytac Yilmaz
No Waste Army: Stijn Markusse and Thibaud van der Steen
MENDED: Agnes Weber and Daan Maasson