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Reaktor Ecosystem has co-founded its first company in the Netherlands. GAIA Technology Systems BV, based in Amsterdam, is an AI-native software development consultancy that puts cloud infrastructure, software engineering, and data and AI work under one delivery model. It arrives four months after Reaktor opened its Amsterdam hub in May 2026.
Most consolidators in professional services buy firms and absorb them. Reaktor Ecosystem does close to the opposite. It makes minority investments from its own balance sheet, mainly into newly founded companies, and leaves control with the founders. It supplies capital, a co-founding playbook, shared assets and network access, and describes its own role as advisory rather than managerial.
GAIA's engineers don't appear on Reaktor's payroll, and its upside reaches shareholders as a stake rather than as invoiced hours. In 2025 the ecosystem launched ten new companies and completed six exits or mergers.
GAIA's founders, CEO Mark Booster and co-founder Erik Meijer, each bring more than a decade in enterprise cloud, data and AI in the Benelux, across sales leadership and building new business from scratch. Their structural choice is to make one team accountable for the platform, the software, and the data and AI work at once, aimed at three sectors they know: retail, life sciences, and banking, financial services and insurance. The company's own positioning promises embedded squads shipping working systems in weeks rather than quarters.
The three verticals are not a coincidence. The Dutch IT services market is estimated at USD 21.59 billion in 2026 and projected to grow at 12.62 percent a year to 2031, with BFSI the largest vertical at 21.15 percent of spend and healthcare and life sciences the fastest growing at 14.8 percent.
Adoption data points the same way. Seventeen percent of Dutch companies with two or more employees used AI in 2025, up from 8 percent in 2023, but among companies with 250 or more staff the figure was 66 percent. GAIA is not built to convince the unconvinced. It is built for large organisations that already started, ran their pilots, and now need someone to get the thing into production.
The timing carries a paradox worth naming. AI is compressing the very hours consultancies sell, with internal tools reportedly saving McKinsey consultants around 30 percent of their time [9]. The conventional reading is that this shrinks consulting. Reaktor's reading is that it shrinks the pyramid, and that a small senior team accountable for an outcome outlasts a large team billing for effort.
"GAIA adds Netherlands-based AI-native delivery capabilities to support Reaktor locally as well."
Pekka Horo, CEO of Reaktor Group
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