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Hi, WSR team here. Great comment!

The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company is actually founded by Dutch founders and they do have quite a big number of their employees in the Netherlands (close to 50 but should double-check on this one).

With that in mind, it'd be interesting to hear what would you put as the 2nd (or 3rd) most valuable Dutch internet company? Thanks!

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I'd like to name these companies off the top of my head:

bol.com: originally started in Germany, but head office is in the Netherlands. They are the "dutch" Amazon, with 405 million euros in sales in 2012 [0], the same year it was also sold to Ahold for a reported 350 million.

coolblue: Dutch online electronics store, like newegg. They launched specialized webshops for just about every category of consumer electronics. They did 248 million euros in sales in 2013 [1]. All three founders made it into the top 10 of wealthiest self-made dutch entrepreneurs below the age of 40 [2].

Takeaway.com: takeaway websites, best know for the dutch and belgian websites "thuisbezorgd.nl" and "thuisbezorgd.be", which have a market share of 90% and 70% in their respective countries. They received a 74 million euro ($103 mln) round B this year [3].

[0] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol.com#Omzet_en_winst (dutch) [1] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolblue (dutch) [2] http://safility.blogspot.nl/2013/08/overzicht-met-internetmi... (dutch) [3] http://corporate.takeaway.com/Over+ons/Nieuwsarchief/2

I would say thuisbezorgd.nl / takeaway.com is a good competitor? They just raised 74 mil.

http://startupjuncture.com/2014/04/10/contender-for-food-del...

Similarly for Israel, would CheckPoint really count as an Internet company in the sense you use here considering their product revenue breakdown? If so in USA, you may as well consider many network infrastructure companies there, Or some cellular data companies may be considered within this list.

I would guess that maybe Layar or WeTranser have higher valuations. Blendle must be the fastest well-known grower, with a very exportable concept but I doubt they have a very high valuation right now.

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