Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)
The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) invests in innovative companies that contribute to major transitions in four key themes: Sustainable Food, A Healthy Future, Climate-Neutral Energy, and Promising Key Technologies. BOM aims to accelerate growth, strengthen the innovation climate, open international doors, and attract companies to Brabant that add real value. BOM's investment strategy focuses on supporting startups and scale-ups with capital, knowledge, and network, building a strong, sustainable, and leading Brabant. BOM operates through three main pillars: Developing strong ecosystems, Investing in innovative entrepreneurs, and Internationalising Brabant-based companies. In the 'Developing' pillar, BOM fosters growth in ecosystems, accelerates innovation through programs, pilots, and test locations, promotes collaborations, and facilitates access to partners and capital. The 'Investing' pillar provides funding to innovative entrepreneurs, with investments up to €5 million, patient capital, investments in funds, and a broad network of co-investors. The 'Internationalising' pillar helps companies explore new markets, identify international partners, discover innovation clusters, collaborate with foreign companies, and leverage international promotion of Brabant. BOM actively works towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by investing in companies that contribute to goals such as Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, and Life on Land. The organization aligns its investment strategy with the ROM-Code, which provides clarity about the role and responsibility of supervisory board members nominated by a ROM.
Carbon Equity
Carbon Equity provides access to private equity and venture capital funds focused on climate tech to a broader range of investors, with investment minimums lower than traditional private equity. They curate a diversified portfolio of climate tech companies by selecting top-performing funds managed by professional investment teams. Their goal is to enable investors to combine positive climate impact with attractive, risk-adjusted returns. They offer opportunities in a range of climate technology sectors, aiming to capitalize on the transition to a carbon-free economy. They emphasize the importance of investing in breakthrough climate solutions that can address global environmental challenges and aim to democratize access to high-impact investments that were previously only available to institutional investors. The firm's investment strategy focuses on identifying and supporting companies driving innovation in areas such as renewable energy, energy storage, sustainable materials, and carbon capture.
Fair Capital Partners
Fair Capital Partners focuses on sustainable investing, aiming to create a world where people and nature are in balance. They emphasize the urgent need to fundamentally change the global economy and work with clients to bring about a more sustainable future. The firm leverages its knowledge and experience to make the most sustainable choices, focusing on investments that promote human rights, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity. They have 30 years of experience investing based on sustainable principles.
Forward.one
Forward.one invests in smart, defensible innovations that target large markets, with exceptional teams hyper-focused on scaling. Their investment strategy centers around backing resilient founders with a strong emphasis on commercialization, speed, and pragmatism. They aim to partner with ventures that possess a competitive edge, offer solutions that customers find indispensable, and address sizable, expanding markets. The firm prefers to enter at the early seed stage but will support winning companies through further rounds. Forward.one positions itself as more than just an investor, acting as a true partner to its portfolio companies. They prioritize transparency, direct communication, and cooperation with entrepreneurs and limited partners (LPs). With a team comprising diverse skills and backgrounds across engineering, business development, and finance, they aim to understand and navigate the complexities of scaling innovative ventures effectively. The firm looks for companies that can become European tech champions. This involves identifying and supporting businesses with strong foundations and the potential for significant growth and impact in their respective industries. They are ambitious, like the entrepreneurs they invest in, and actively work to unlock stellar returns for their investors. Forward.one demonstrates a commitment to long-term success and alignment with LPs and GPs. They look for innovative ventures that align with sustainability goals, evidenced by investments in climate tech and energy storage. This focus showcases a dedication to creating a positive impact through their investments, driving Europe towards energy efficiency, reduced dependence on external resources, and significant reductions in CO2 emissions.
NPM Capital
NPM Capital is an independent investment partner focused on helping medium-sized and large companies in the Benelux and DACH regions achieve their ambitions. They target family-owned enterprises and companies with strong, dedicated management teams. NPM Capital aims to build the businesses of the future together with their portfolio companies. As a long-term investor, ESG performance is integral to their DNA, focusing on companies that offer innovative products/services, create jobs and better working conditions, take action against climate change, and create sustainable value leading to long-term returns. They integrate ESG into all investment decisions and portfolio company partnerships.
Netherlands Enterprise Agency
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) supports organizations in developing and scaling sustainable solutions across energy, agriculture, climate tech, and innovation. Focuses on funding, policy alignment, and international partnerships to drive systemic change in sustainability and economic growth.
Partners in Equity BV
Partners in Equity is an impact investment firm founded in 2003 with a mission to support companies and funds that create solutions to environmental challenges. They are building a portfolio of investments in sustainable agriculture and food systems, circularity, and climate solutions, partnering with organizations whose missions and values align with theirs and remaining committed for the long term. The firm aims to be a partner of choice by entrepreneurs, funds, and impact investors. Their vision is of a world that is inclusive, just, and sustainable, where humans reconnect with nature and understand that their well-being and prosperity are linked to the wellbeing of the planet. They envision an economic system that prioritizes environmental protection, social inclusion, and financial sustainability, believing in the critical role of investing in the right people and solutions to make this vision a reality. Partners in Equity focuses on three key areas: Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, Circularity, and Climate Solutions. These areas are interconnected through their shared focus on restoring ecosystems, reducing waste, and mitigating climate change. They aim to shape a global food system that ensures equitable access to nutritious food for all, while staying within ecological limits. They also strive to advance a circular economy that reduces resource demand and environmental impact through investing in models that promote reuse, limit waste, and extend resource life cycles. Additionally, they are committed to tackling climate change by accelerating the shift to renewable energy and technologies to reduce emissions. Partners in Equity invests equity via sector-focused funds and direct investments in later-stage growth companies. They actively seek partnerships with teams that share their sense of urgency regarding environmental challenges. They are engaged partners who have a holistic approach to investment management, believing that positive social and environmental impact and financial returns are inherently linked.
SHIFT Invest
SHIFT Invest is a venture capital fund dedicated to investing exclusively in innovative enterprises with significant positive environmental impact potential. Recognizing the critical role of innovation and entrepreneurship in restoring the balance between nature and society, SHIFT Invest operates as an impact investor, willingly embracing financial and impact risks that traditional investors may avoid. This proactive approach allows the firm to contribute meaningfully to the sustainability transition by providing promising environmental startups with access to vital growth capital, a valuable network, and over 13 years of impact investment experience. The firm's investment strategy revolves around identifying and supporting companies that actively address pressing environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. SHIFT Invest aims to foster a world where business success is intrinsically linked to positive environmental outcomes. By carefully selecting and nurturing innovative startups, the fund seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of solutions that benefit both the planet and society. SHIFT Invest's commitment extends beyond mere financial investment. The firm actively supports its portfolio companies by leveraging its extensive network of partners and providing hands-on guidance. This collaborative approach ensures that startups have the resources and expertise they need to scale their operations and achieve their environmental impact goals. With a long-term investment horizon, SHIFT Invest is dedicated to helping its portfolio companies grow and thrive, ultimately creating a more sustainable and resilient future.
The Future Food Fund
The Future Food Fund is a specialist food & agriculture impact fund investing in early-stage companies in Western Europe that are working to transform the food and agriculture value chain. They focus on companies that address the environmental impact of food production, which accounts for nearly 25% of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, drives biodiversity loss, causes land-use change, pollutes with nitrogen and phosphorus, and demands huge freshwater resources. They believe in driving innovation and change within these food systems, to shift them from being the cause to becoming the solution to planetary boundary issues. The fund contributes capital, knowledge, and network to help entrepreneurial ventures make a positive environmental impact. They take impact seriously, having developed their own methodology, which they apply through the whole investment process, from screening deals, creating value and portfolio management, straight to their own impact carry. They have an international impact framework in place bringing transformation to the most pressing themes. They are focused on supporting companies contributing to more sustainable farming practices, resilient supply chains, and reduction of CO2 emissions.
Triple Jump
Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager founded in 2006. They manage or advise funds, portfolios, and mandates that create a positive impact in emerging economies while generating healthy financial returns. Their work revolves around five main development themes: Financial Inclusion, financing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), affordable housing, access to clean energy, and climate and nature. They aim to contribute to a more responsible and inclusive financial sector. Triple Jump uses various instruments such as private debt, equity, mezzanine, and fund investments, coupled with technical assistance and advisory services to its investees, to deliver environmental, social, and financial returns. They emphasize a global network to quickly respond to client needs and better understand the environments in which they operate, and a local presence in investment markets to facilitate lasting relationships with clients and investees. Triple Jump's approach combines financial investment with a deep commitment to creating positive social and environmental outcomes. This is reflected in their impact metrics, such as the number of clients reached, jobs supported, CO2 emissions avoided, and technical assistance projects completed. They target underserved markets and populations, as evidenced by the percentage of rural and women clients reached. Their investment strategy is guided by a rigorous understanding of the challenges and opportunities in emerging markets. They aim to provide the financial resources and expertise needed to help businesses grow and scale their impact. Triple Jump's investment philosophy is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global frameworks for sustainable development.
VP Capital
VP Capital is a family office originating from Van Puijenbroek Textile, established in 1865. They have evolved into an impact-driven investor leveraging capital and network for positive change for the planet and society. Since 2019, they implemented a strategy focused on reducing negative impact and promoting positive change in sectors such as agrifood, real estate, textile, clean technology, and energy. Approximately half of their managed assets are allocated to impactful companies and innovative enterprises. Starting in 2024, VP Capital reshaped its strategy to put impact at the forefront of every decision, assessed through a financial lens. They structure their impact strategy around 3 key challenges and 6 solutions, guiding all investments based on their potential to drive these solutions and challenges. They aim to realize impact through their own organization, their capital investments and donations, and their influence as an investor by actively engaging with their investments and network on topics like biodiversity, climate change, and inequality. VP Capital's investments are long-term commitments, screened against criteria like purpose, vision, and intended impact. The due diligence process identifies financial, legal, and sustainability issues. They are actively involved with their investments, with a VP Capital team member holding a seat in a governing body in at least 75% of their assets to promote sustainability, impact, and innovation. They also maintain an exclusion list and actively work with their portfolio companies on actions to reduce negative impact. They invest across asset classes including private equity, ventures, real estate, and publicly traded businesses. Investor additionality, potential impact, and realized impact are key in their decision-making process. They support companies that drive the future of sustainability by providing not only financial support but also sharing valuable knowledge, experience, and extensive networks. VP Capital has adopted an impact-first investment strategy, inspired by Kate Raworth’s Doughnut model, to achieve a balance between social needs and planetary limits. Their investment strategy starts with impact objectives and translated into asset class targets for capital allocation to the six solutions tied to their three impact themes.
Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC positions itself as Europe's leading climate innovation agency and community. They aim to transform climate ambitions into systemic action by grounding climate action locally. Their strategy revolves around place-based transformations, learning by doing, climate entrepreneurship, and contributing to Europe 2030 missions. They facilitate collaboration within their community of over 150 global members, including universities, research institutions, cities, NGOs, and startups, to accelerate the transformation of cities, regions, and value chains for enhanced adaptation and climate resilience. Climate-KIC cultivates a critical mass to scale up both the supply and demand for climate change solutions, focusing on innovation that makes the biggest difference in transforming systems, supporting ambitious climate leaders to create change at the speed and scale required for systemic transformation. Climate-KIC leverages its network of members, comprising of bright minds, dynamic companies, strategic thinkers, and forward-thinking cities and public authorities committed to climate action and deep decarbonization through innovation. This network includes SMEs, larger corporations, start-ups, graduate students, researchers, climate experts, cities, public authorities, and NGOs. Their approach emphasizes deep collaboration between organizations and individuals within the community, uniting forces to find and implement solutions in integrated ways. Their programs encompass a wide range of initiatives, including supporting farmers towards climate-resilient food futures through FoodFutures, aiding over 100 European regions on a transformative climate resilience journey, promoting sustainable food systems in Ireland through Deep Demo Ireland, enhancing Tanzania’s climate resilience through the Adaptation Innovation Cluster, building capacity of innovation ecosystems in Latin America & the Caribbean, and accelerating European cities towards climate neutrality via NetZeroCities. They also integrate gender mainstreaming into climate innovation and empower leaders in climate innovation through the Climate-KIC Academy. Climate-KIC's impact is further amplified through community empowerment and the translation of global limits into local action, bridging the gap between global frameworks and on-the-ground implementation. Methodologies like the Butterfly Model and Reduction Roadmap are employed to couple CO2 reduction with ecosystem protection, land restoration, and a shift from extractive practices to regenerative solutions. The organization acts as a pivotal link between global climate and biodiversity limits and concrete sectoral pathways, enabling transformative change across various sectors and regions.
Gilde Healthcare
Gilde Healthcare operates with a dual mission: to invest in solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs, and to address global challenges through investments in climate solutions. Their Healthcare funds target businesses enabling better care at a lower cost, while their Climate Solutions fund invests in energy transition, biodiversity, waste management, and pollution reduction. They aim to achieve outsized returns on impactful companies active in healthcare or climate solutions by leveraging deep industry knowledge.
Pjotr van Schothorst
PVS Investments is a private investor providing seed funding for climate tech startups. Pjotr van Schothorst, the founder, leverages his entrepreneurial experience and technical background in applied physics to identify and invest in early-stage companies with the potential to limit global warming. He is particularly interested in university spin-outs with technical innovations in areas such as improved batteries, CO2 capture, and renewable energy. His early-stage focus allows him to step in much earlier than most VCs. He focuses on startups with potential for disruption when scaled up. PVS Investments targets companies working on innovative clean energy production, battery technologies, e-mobility, green chemicals, precision fermentation, CO2 capture and sequestration, and industrial decarbonization. He invests in venture builders like Marble Studio and Food Founders Studio, as well as aquaculture investors and PV and biogas projects. Pjotr's investment decisions are driven by a desire to contribute to solving global energy, water, and food supply problems through clean energy and waste valorization solutions. Beyond financial investment, Pjotr offers his experience to founders. This includes reviewing their go-to-market strategy, investor pitch, and team composition. He also leverages his network to introduce them to VC investors for the next funding round. His technical background allows him to quickly assess the viability of deep tech innovations. The firm operates as a personal investment venture, supported by experienced partners with expertise in entrepreneurship, chemical engineering, intellectual property (IP) protection, and strategy & risk analysis.
Venturerock
Venturerock is a venture building and venture investment platform focused on advancing technology, science, and innovation to co-create and grow next-generation global tech companies. They operate a multi-tiered venture capital platform designed to democratize access to equity-based capital for ventures while enhancing transparency and liquidity for investors. Their approach includes a venture building studio combined with a structured 72-step development program, aiming for a high success rate in company creation. Venturerock also emphasizes the importance of a strong network, bringing together founders, corporate partners, industry professionals, and media to create a network effect that drives ventures forward. They are building an entrepreneurial residence to integrate various venture building needs into a single environment.