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.
Brabantse Ontwikkelmaatschappij (BOM)
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Brain Tumor Investment Fund
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Brainforest Association

Brainforest Association is a venture platform solely dedicated to woodland conservation and biodiversity preservation. They aim to regenerate and protect 20 million hectares of biodiverse forests by 2030. They accelerate ventures by identifying impactful leverage points through a systems map, inviting entrepreneurs to join their Venture Program, validating solutions, and investing, collaborating, and scaling impact. Their Venture Program refines and scales innovations through collaboration, expert guidance, and access to a global network. They invest in startups that address forest and biodiversity loss and provide financial support and services to scale their solutions, incorporating them into the Brainforest Portfolio and working with them over the following year.
Brainstorm Ventures

Brainstorm Ventures is a small, generalist venture capital firm founded in 1999 by former exited founders. They partner with exceptional founders to build extraordinary companies that change the world through technology. With roots in Silicon Valley and Mexico City, Brainstorm invests at the earliest stages in category-defining startups across North America. The firm emphasizes its deep empathy for entrepreneurs and experience delivering top-decile returns across market cycles. They focus on backing companies that can become category leaders.
Branded Hospitality Ventures
Branded Hospitality Ventures operates as an investment, advisory, and media platform, focusing on the intersection of food service, technology, innovation, and capital. Their strategy revolves around a "flywheel effect," where their three business lines—Ventures (investment), Solutions (strategic advisory), and Media (content and amplification)—work synergistically to accelerate the growth and success of their portfolio companies. They aim to connect hospitality, foodservice, technology, innovation, and capital through these interconnected lines, providing access, validation, and industry connections. Their investment approach is focused on providing capital, industry expertise, and a comprehensive network to high-growth opportunities within the food service and hospitality sector. They seek to foster strategic partnerships, facilitate market expansion, and create long-term value for businesses shaping the future of hospitality. They also offer strategic solutions to foodservice, hospitality, and technology companies, leveraging their expertise as operators, marketers, and financial specialists to help businesses navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve their goals. Branded Hospitality Ventures also leverages its media platform to enhance visibility, engage target audiences, and drive meaningful connections for their portfolio companies. By integrating content creation with strategic brand amplification, they aim to deliver measurable impact, fueling sales growth and brand success. Their overall objective is to bridge the gap between hospitality, foodservice, technology, innovation, and capital, creating value for partners across all verticals.
Brandenburg VENTURES GmbH

Brandenburg Ventures GmbH, founded in 2009 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg, operates as an engaged private investor providing not only capital but also active support to its portfolio companies. Their approach combines financial investment with hands-on guidance in areas such as financing, business development and strategy, technology transfer, IP development & commercialization, and networking. The firm leverages its deep understanding of both scientific and business perspectives to provide valuable insights and support. They offer advisory services and are available for supervisory and advisory board mandates. Beyond investing, Brandenburg Ventures actively supports technology transfer and university spin-offs, as well as promotes entrepreneurship through both financial and voluntary engagement. They concentrate their investments in the technology sector, particularly within "new media," and place a strong emphasis on backing compelling and dedicated founding teams. The firm's proximity to basic research, extensive experience, and established network also enable them to act as a company builder, evidenced by the independent founding of Brandenburg Labs GmbH in 2019. Brandenburg Ventures' commitment is to build successful partnerships and acknowledges the importance of various factors, including elements like luck and third-party support, in achieving significant success. They look to work collaboratively with portfolio companies to maximize results.
Brandenburg Ventures
Brandenburg Ventures GmbH, founded in 2009 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg, operates as a private investor actively supporting its portfolio companies. They focus on providing assistance in areas such as financing, business development, strategy, technology transfer, IP development & utilization, and networking. The firm leverages a deep understanding of both scientific and business perspectives to offer valuable insights. They are also available for advisory and supervisory board mandates. Brandenburg Ventures supports technology transfer, university spin-offs, and entrepreneurship through financial and pro bono activities. Their investment focus centers on the "new media" technology sector, with a strong emphasis on backing compelling and dedicated founding teams. Beyond traditional investing, Brandenburg Ventures acts as a company builder. In 2019, they established Brandenburg Labs GmbH, which conducts applied research and further development of audio technologies, along with IP development, utilization, consulting, and licensing in the field of "personalized auditory reality". They emphasize a partnership-based approach to success, acknowledging the role of various factors including luck, chance, and the support of others.
Breakout Ventures
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Breakthrough Energy
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Breakthrough Energy Fellows

Breakthrough Energy accelerates clean energy innovation to meet humanity’s energy needs sustainably. By investing in breakthrough technologies and supporting innovators, the firm transforms key global sectors (manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings) into scalable, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions. The focus is on addressing climate change through technology-driven opportunities.
Breakthrough Energy Foundation
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures - Europe (BEV-E)
Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is a global platform focused on accelerating clean energy innovation and building the industries of the future. They believe that innovation is key to meeting the world's growing energy demands affordably, reliably, and cleanly, without sacrificing prosperity or the planet. BEV's core mission is to empower innovators working on solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across various sectors of the economy.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe

Breakthrough Energy accelerates clean energy innovation across global economic sectors (manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings) to meet humanity’s energy needs affordably, reliably, and sustainably by investing in breakthrough technologies and supporting innovators to build scalable businesses.
Breega Venture II

The provided website content is limited and does not offer a comprehensive investment thesis or strategy description. However, the available information suggests that Breega emphasizes a team composed of individuals with experience in building or scaling companies. This suggests they prioritize operational expertise and understanding the challenges faced by founders. The firm also highlights its predictions for 2026 indicating a forward-thinking approach and industry awareness. Without access to further information, a detailed summary cannot be accurately provided.
Breeze Invest
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Bregal Unternehmerkapital

Bregal Investments is an international private markets firm that provides a platform for direct investment and fund-of-funds teams across North America and Europe. They invest in mid-market companies with sound business models, robust business integrity, and an ability to have a positive societal and environmental impact. Their investment strategies span various sectors and geographies through majority control equity, minority equity, or credit investments. Bregal emphasizes long-term, sustainable value creation, integrating responsible investing factors into their analysis and decision-making. They aim to partner with investment teams with strong track records, high standards of excellence and ethics, and an ability to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for their investors. Bregal's approach is guided by core values of excellence, trust, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and integrity. They value strong relationships with limited partners, including pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices, and other institutional and high net-worth investors. The firm engages deeply with portfolio companies and General Partners to launch sustainability-focused solutions and deliver sustainable business models, focusing on delivering strong financial returns. Bregal Investments operates through distinct investment strategies, each focusing on specific sectors or geographies. These strategies include flexible capital and strategic assistance for market-leading companies in high-growth sectors, equity capital for mid-sized companies in the DACH region and Italy, growth capital and strategic assistance to software companies throughout Europe, impact platform investing in climate and nature-based solutions, private equity primaries, co-investments, and secondaries across North America and Europe, and building on primary relationships with GPs across North America and Europe through secondary investments.
Brevan Howard

Brevan Howard is a leading global alternative investment management platform specializing in global macro and digital assets. Founded in 2002, the firm manages assets for institutional investors worldwide, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension plans, foundations, and endowments. Their investment approach combines directional, relative value, and derivative trading strategies designed to deliver orthogonal but complementary returns across a broad range of investment solutions. They differentiate their investment process through macro thinking, trade structuring, and risk management. The firm emphasizes a talent-driven, collaborative culture that fosters independent thinking and growth within a diverse community. They heavily invest in best-in-class technology to equip their team members with the necessary tools for success. Brevan Howard offers a broad range of diversified investment products to address diverse portfolio needs, aiming to deliver outstanding investment returns to clients in every macroeconomic environment. Brevan Howard's global presence is reflected in its nine hubs located in key regions like London, New York, Geneva, Jersey, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Bengaluru, and Austin. This wide geographic distribution supports their global client base and access to diverse talent pools. The firm is led by CEO Aron Landy and has a large team, including over 150 Portfolio Managers/Traders and Pod PMs who manage active book capital, as of February 1, 2026. Their core values revolve around exceptional talent, technology, diversified investment products, and outstanding macro analysis.
Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Breyer Capital

Breyer Capital is a premier venture capital investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs. They frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders, the insights of their network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence and machine learning will transform technology and investment opportunities globally. They view technology as an enabler, not a replacer. The firm is guided by principles of humility, integrity, and a passion for true long-term risks and bets that can result not only in significant financial returns and outcomes, but in dramatic social impact as well. They have deep passion for social media, entertainment/media, digital health, and financial technologies and care deeply about how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will come to redefine and transform all of these unique spaces.
Briban Invest

Family-owned venture capital firm focused on sustainable, long-term investments for future generations, with a regional emphasis on Malmö.
Bridford Group
Bridford Group is a permanent capital investor based in London and Amsterdam, managing a portfolio of over 30 businesses. They invest their own capital in businesses across various sectors, stages of growth, and countries, with a primary focus on founder-led businesses exhibiting long-term potential. Unlike traditional investment funds, Bridford Group's permanent capital structure allows for a patient, flexible, and long-term approach, fully aligning with founders seeking to build substantial companies. They prioritize highly scalable businesses with the potential for significant growth across multiple countries, particularly those demonstrating a strong element of societal or environmental welfare. Bridford Group backs challengers who can redefine industries, address significant problems, or provide solutions to existing industry bottlenecks and inefficiencies. While their investment history leans towards early-stage companies, Bridford Group is also capable of investing in more mature, growth-oriented businesses. They prefer concepts that have been tested and proven to have a market, are not heavily reliant on external factors for success, possess material organic growth potential, and can operate as stand-alone profitable entities. Their geographical focus is primarily Europe. Bridford Group typically seeks investments that grant them a meaningful minority position in a company, though they are open to taking majority positions. They are able to lead investments or participate in broader financing rounds. Bridford places significant emphasis on the teams they back, seeking founders and management teams with strong determination, effectiveness, exceptional execution skills, and an ambition to generate long-term value. They prefer companies managed by individuals capable of attracting high-quality talent. Bridford Group actively contributes to the development of their portfolio companies through operational support, including corporate development, financial and legal guidance, strategic advice and business development, team-building and hiring, and cross-fertilization with other portfolio companies. They avoid investments in companies with negative environmental or social impacts.
Bridford Investments Limited
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Bridge
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.