There is a line in our brand story: “small countries, big dreams.” This summer, our team got to live it.
In November 2025, Curaçao qualified for the World Cup for the first time in its history. With around 156,000 people, it became the smallest nation ever to reach the tournament. Blyce is headquartered in Curaçao, so for many of us this was not just sports news. It was personal.
And there was something more. The Netherlands qualified. Colombia qualified. For the first time, all three countries where Blyce colleagues live and work had a team at the same World Cup. Three flags, one company.
This article is not about the matches. Tournaments are decided in ninety minutes, but what they mean lasts much longer. This is about what the World Cup looked like inside Blyce.
How we lived the 2026 World Cup
At our headquarters in Willemstad, the tournament arrived before the first whistle. The office held a decoration contest, and for a few weeks flags and streamers competed with monitors and whiteboards for space. Group chats that normally discuss releases and deadlines filled up with match schedules and predictions in three languages.
Some colleagues went further. A few traveled to the United States to watch Curaçao’s first World Cup matches in person, joining thousands of supporters who made the same journey. Before the match in Philadelphia, colleagues and fellow fans gathered for a tailgate. For an afternoon, a piece of Curaçao was right there in Pennsylvania.
In the Netherlands and Colombia, colleagues followed their own teams with the same energy, and followed Curaçao as their second team. That may have been the best part. Three countries, three shirts, and one shared story to talk about at every virtual meeting.
Why it matters to us
At Blyce, we build software for the governments of small states. Many of our clients are countries the size of Curaçao, and some are smaller. They work with the resources they have, and they are expected to meet the same international standards as much larger nations. In every project, we see what they are capable of.
It is worth pausing on what that actually means. A small tax administration answers to the same international transparency and compliance frameworks as one serving a country a hundred times its size.
A social security institution serving a small population must be just as accurate, just as secure, and just as accountable as one serving many millions. The standards do not scale down. The teams do. The people inside these institutions carry more responsibility per person than almost anywhere else in public service, and year after year, they deliver.
That is what made this tournament feel so familiar to the people who work here. Curaçao did not arrive at the World Cup by accident. Behind that qualification were years of planning, development, and belief. Anyone at Blyce recognizes that rhythm, because it is the rhythm of our own work: long timelines, high standards, and the patience to build something properly before the world sees it.
Modernizing a country’s tax or social protection system is that kind of work. It takes years, it demands persistence through setbacks, and most of it happens far from any spotlight. Then comes the day a system goes live, and something a small team built quietly becomes part of how an entire country runs.
Ask our colleagues what keeps them here, and some version of that moment is usually the answer.
That is why this World Cup meant so much to our team. However far each team went, the picture that stays with us is a nation of 156,000 people standing on the world’s biggest stage, belonging there. Our colleagues know that feeling from the inside. It is what launch day looks like, with a bigger audience.
There is a personal side to this as well. Blyce is itself a company from a small island. From Willemstad, and together with colleagues in the Netherlands and Colombia, our people work with governments across the Caribbean, the Pacific, and beyond. Working here has always meant that where you start does not decide how far your work travels. This summer, the whole world watched that idea play out on a football pitch.
And it says something to the people who work here, and to those who might. At Blyce, the systems our colleagues build help collect the revenue that funds schools and hospitals, and deliver the benefits that reach families on time. That is national scale impact, built by teams that know each other by name. If Curaçao’s summer showed the world what small can do, our colleagues recognize the feeling. It is their daily work.
Small countries can do big things. We have built our company around that belief. This summer, the whole world got to see it.
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