Just two weeks ago, a new group of founders kicked off the eighth batch of the AMS Startup Booster. Over the coming months, these teams will work closely with mentors, experts, and partners to strengthen their ideas and prepare for growth. Guided by the Booster’s mission to support innovative solutions for more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive cities.
This cohort brings together a diverse and inspiring mix of entrepreneurs. Half of the startups are female-led, and nearly half are student-founded, reflecting the wide range of perspectives and talent the program aims to support. From early-stage ideas to more developed ventures, all teams share a clear ambition: to create a positive impact in urban environments.
Together, the startups are exploring solutions across climate action, circular innovation, digital tools for cities, and social inclusion. Some focus on reducing environmental impact, while others aim to make urban systems smarter or everyday city life more accessible. What unites them is a strong commitment to tackling real challenges cities face today, and turning bold ideas into practical solutions.
As the program unfolds over the next few months, we look forward to supporting this cohort as they test, refine, and scale their innovations.
Now, let’s meet the startups of the AMS Startup Booster Batch 8.
Carbon Crops BV
Industry: CleanTech, Sustainable Materials & Infrastructure
Carbon Crops creates automated manufacturing systems for hemp-lime (hempcrete) facade elements, offering a biobased, CO₂-negative alternative to concrete in non-load-bearing applications. Ideal customers include prefab manufacturers, developers, contractors, and architects seeking low-carbon, industrially scalable materials. The startup addresses the construction industry’s pressure to reduce embodied carbon while enabling predictable quality and seamless integration into existing workflows.
Citypump-E
Industry: Sustainable Infrastructure & CleanTech
Citypump develops electric, multi-purpose pump systems for urban construction, temporary sewage, and water management that are low-emission, quiet, and energy-efficient. Customers include construction companies, government entities, and infrastructure projects requiring reliable, emission-free fluid displacement solutions.
Climion.ai
Industry: Smart Cities & ClimateTech
Climion.ai converts climate and geospatial data into actionable insights for real estate, finance, and urban planning, enabling climate-resilient decision-making. Customers include banks, insurers, urban planners, municipalities, and real estate developers seeking risk-adjusted, ESG-aligned intelligence.
Hanga Studios
Industry: Circular Economy & Sustainable Materials
Hanga transforms non-recyclable textile waste into recyclable, design-driven materials for fashion, retail, and eventually other sectors like furniture and packaging. Ideal customers include brands seeking circular solutions and recycling partners handling textile waste. The startup addresses global textile waste challenges, enabling brands to meet sustainability targets while creating scalable, circular material solutions.
Uptimus
Industry: Urban Mobility & Sustainable Infrastructure
Uptimus provides an “Uptime OS” for EV charging networks, combining telemetry, predictive analytics, and a certified technician network to improve reliability and reduce maintenance times. Customers include public and semi-public Charge Point Operators, real estate and retail groups, and municipalities managing multi-brand EV chargers.
ROODS
Industry: Smart Cities & Data-driven Tourism
ROODS turns cities into open-air museums by connecting cultural institutions, municipalities, and visitors through location-based storytelling and AI-powered content. It helps cities, large and small, share authentic stories, engage visitors beyond landmarks, and increase cultural visibility.
Roomus
Industry: Housing
Roomus is a platform that helps university students find compatible roommates through verified profiles and a matching algorithm focused on lifestyle preferences. It addresses challenges such as unsafe listings, scams, and housing stress, particularly for international students in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities.
Storks Robotics Lab
Industry: Smart Cities & Robotics
Storks Robotics Lab develops autonomous robots and rovers to clean streets, collect litter, and monitor urban environments safely and efficiently. Customers include municipalities, public service providers, and land management organizations seeking cost-effective, healthier public spaces. The startup reduces municipal labor costs, improves environmental monitoring, and opens opportunities for broader urban robotics applications.
The Swap Club
Industry: Circular Economy & Sustainable Fashion
The Swap Club organizes curated, gamified urban reuse events with a points-based system, complemented by a digital platform and app for residents to exchange household items sustainably. Target customers include urban residents, municipalities, and local partners aiming to reduce waste and extend product lifecycles. The platform addresses overconsumption, fragmented reuse systems, and lack of transparency, enabling measurable, community-driven circularity.
Tiger Parts
Industry: Circular Economy & Industrial Manufacturing
Tiger Parts reverse-engineers broken or discontinued machine components, producing replacements quickly and efficiently. Target customers include organizations that rely on industrial equipment, such as municipalities, factories, warehouses, and farms. The startup supports circular economy goals by reducing planned obsolescence, enabling repairs over replacement, and strengthening industrial resilience.
Vanesha
Industry: Urban Food & AgTech
Vanesha builds urban micro-greenhouses on rooftops and leftover urban spaces, linking producers with restaurants, cafés, schools, and consumers via a digital coordination platform. The solution reduces food waste, shortens transport distances, and strengthens local food systems while activating underused urban spaces as community hubs.
Wardrobe Circle
Industry: Sustainable Fashion
Wardrobe Circle connects clothing users, wardrobe coaches, and circular fashion providers to help individuals rediscover their style and extend the life of their clothes. The platform addresses dormant wardrobes, fragmented circular services, and lack of fashion guidance while fostering more sustainable consumption.
Myco Packing
Industry: Sustainable Materials & Circular Economy
Myco Packing creates circular, compostable packaging by transforming breweries’ spent grain into protective, insulative mycelium-grown materials that replace generic cardboard and single-use plastics. By turning a brewery’s own by-products into structurally strong, brand-enhancing packaging, Myco Packing helps craft producers improve sustainability, product protection, and customer experience.
SoundCity
Industry: Smart Cities & Urban Data
SoundCity is an AI-powered urban noise monitoring network using low-cost, autonomous sensors. Its primary value lies in providing urban environmental intelligence, enabling municipalities and developers to make data-driven decisions about noise, health, and urban planning.