PlantLab
Private Equity Round in 2022
PlantLab specializes in innovative methods for cultivating plants in custom-built indoor farms and underground boxes. The company aims to provide an alternative food system by producing vegetables on a large scale, without the use of chemical crop protection agents. This approach enables clients to achieve self-sufficiency and access affordable, fresh, and healthy produce in locations where traditional agricultural production is typically unfeasible.
Felyx provides a shared electric scooter service aimed at improving urban mobility and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. The company currently operates e-scooters in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague, with plans for expansion into Brussels. Users can rent scooters via a mobile application on a per-minute basis, allowing for quick and efficient travel around urban areas while avoiding traffic congestion and public transit challenges. Felyx's service emphasizes sustainability, as its e-scooters produce zero emissions, and offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional public transportation. The scooters can be parked anywhere within designated areas, facilitating convenient one-way trips for users.
PlantLab specializes in innovative methods for cultivating plants in custom-built indoor farms and underground boxes. The company aims to provide an alternative food system by producing vegetables on a large scale, without the use of chemical crop protection agents. This approach enables clients to achieve self-sufficiency and access affordable, fresh, and healthy produce in locations where traditional agricultural production is typically unfeasible.
Picnic is a rapidly expanding technology company that operates as an online supermarket, offering a modern home delivery system for fast-moving consumer goods. The company focuses on providing grocery shopping services at competitive prices without delivery costs. Through its platform, users can place orders for a wide range of products sourced from local bakers, greengrocers, and other suppliers. Picnic utilizes electric vehicles for deliveries, ensuring that customers receive their groceries conveniently at their doorsteps while promoting environmentally friendly practices.
QWIC is a pioneering manufacturer of light electric bicycles, focused on promoting sustainable mobility solutions. The company designs and produces high-performance, innovative e-bikes that are lightweight and energy-efficient, catering to the needs of modern commuters. By offering products that facilitate a shift towards car-free urban environments, QWIC aims to address pressing issues such as pollution and congestion. The company's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its mission to empower individuals to lead more active and healthy lifestyles through the use of its e-bikes, positioning itself as a global premium brand in the growing e-bike industry.
Eszet Electro Harderwijk
Acquisition in 2018
ESZET Electro is a wholesaler and supplier of high-quality wires, cables and cables in all shapes and sizes that are conceivable. With our good stock position, we can deliver a large part of the cables to you within 24 hours with our own transport. ESZET Data offers a wide range of products for applications in telecommunication and telematics, not only for cables but also for housings. The high-quality cables are used in various open architectures.
SHI Non-food Concepts
Acquisition in 2018
SHI Non-food Concepts specializes in providing essential products for home improvement, focusing on finishing and upgrading both residential and commercial environments. The company operates across various categories, including electronics, hardware, painting tools, sanitary items, and multimedia. SHI offers a diverse array of products, combining its own concepts and brands with private labels and non-branded options. Serving wholesalers, retailers, and e-tailers in the professional and do-it-yourself markets, SHI handles all aspects of sourcing, assortment management, and logistics to deliver end-to-end solutions tailored to customer needs.
De Menken Keuken
Acquisition in 2018
De Menken Keuken is a family business that is now being run by the second Menken generation. For four decades we have been supplying food to almost all large retail, catering and catering companies in the Netherlands. The wide range of salads, sauces and meat products is mainly produced under private label and in close consultation with the client. In addition to the constant strict quality requirements that the traditional Menken kitchen sets for its refrigerated products, the innovative and flexible strength of the company plays an important role in its success. From an optimal quality / price ratio, we strive to be first supplier in the private label market, where cost leadership and innovation leadership are decisive factors. Result: delicious, tasty products that stand out in the rest of the market.
Probo
Private Equity Round in 2017
Probo is a full service, web based digital print and fulfillment partner that delivers exclusively to resellers. This means that the reseller can offer its customers a wide range of services and products through Probo. From canvases, panels and posters to textiles, stickers and labels, everything fully automated and 100% own production. Probo is innovation. By continually anticipating changes or creating changes, Probo distinguishes itself in the digital print market. This reseller only model is unique in the digital print market.
Picnic is a rapidly expanding technology company that operates as an online supermarket, offering a modern home delivery system for fast-moving consumer goods. The company focuses on providing grocery shopping services at competitive prices without delivery costs. Through its platform, users can place orders for a wide range of products sourced from local bakers, greengrocers, and other suppliers. Picnic utilizes electric vehicles for deliveries, ensuring that customers receive their groceries conveniently at their doorsteps while promoting environmentally friendly practices.
Viacryp
Private Equity Round in 2016
Viacryp specializes in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) that facilitate the pseudonymization and secure handling of personal data. Acting as a Trusted Third Party, the company enables its clients to analyze behavioral data and create profiles while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Viacryp's validated techniques ensure that individual customer data cannot be traced back to the processed output, thus safeguarding privacy. The company provides expert advice on the anonymization and pseudonymization of personal data, aligning its processes with the standards set by the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the General Data Protection Regulation. Serving a diverse clientele across both private and public sectors, Viacryp empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions without compromising individual privacy.
Hot ITem
Acquisition in 2016
Hot ITem B.V. is a management consulting firm based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that specializes in enhancing the performance of individuals, departments, and organizations. The company offers a diverse range of services, including marketing, sales, finance, business intelligence, project management, and operational management. Hot ITem focuses on business intelligence and analytics, helping clients leverage data to improve decision-making and operational efficiency. Additionally, the firm provides expertise in managing hybrid data environments and developing competencies for data-driven organizations, thereby enabling clients to effectively integrate data and information across various functions.
Andus Group
Private Equity Round in 2015
Andus Group is a diversified company engaged in the production and construction of equipment for industrial and energy sectors. It specializes in manufacturing stainless steel process equipment and beer systems, as well as high alloyed industrial castings. The company also designs, engineers, and supplies refractory linings, offering installation and maintenance services to ensure optimal performance. Additionally, Andus Group is involved in the construction of complex steel structures and the supply of intractable substances, bricks, and concrete. By providing these essential services and products, the company supports its clients with expertise and reliability in various industrial applications.
myBrand
Acquisition in 2015
MyBrand is a consultancy firm based in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, specializing in SAP consultancy services. The company provides a range of offerings, including advice, implementation, project management, support, and system exploitation, aimed at helping organizations optimize their business operations efficiently. MyBrand's approach is heavily influenced by the practical experiences of its senior consultants, who are also key shareholders, ensuring that the company's goals are aligned with real-world customer needs. As of August 2019, MyBrand operates as a subsidiary of Xtensional B.V.
Cassini Technologies
Venture Round in 2015
i-Optics is a medical device company based in 's-Gravenhage, the Netherlands, that specializes in developing innovative corneal diagnostic solutions for eye care professionals. Founded in 2013, the company offers advanced technologies such as the Cassini Corneal Shape Analyzer, which utilizes color LED technology to accurately measure corneal astigmatism, aiding in premium intraocular lens (IOL) planning. This system helps cataract surgeons enhance patient outcomes and reduce unexpected refractive results. Additionally, i-Optics provides the EasyScan, a zero-dilation retinal imaging system that employs scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) to diagnose various retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma. Through its user-friendly and cost-effective solutions, i-Optics aims to support eye care providers in delivering high-quality care to their patients.
Simpel BV
Private Equity Round in 2014
Simpel is an independent provider of mobile telephony on the Dutch market.
Tentoo
Acquisition in 2014
Tentoo is a prominent payroll service provider based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with over twenty years of experience in supporting freelancers and employers in the Netherlands and Belgium. As the first payroll company established in the Netherlands, Tentoo offers specialized payrolling and payroll administration services, with a focus on the audio-visual industry. The company's aim is to simplify and enhance the payroll process for both individual freelancers and employers, ensuring high-quality service and compliance with relevant regulations.
Avantium is a leading technology company specialized in advanced high-throughput R&D for applications in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The company's headquarters and laboratories are located in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Avantium's proprietary high-throughput technology enables a faster and more cost-effective development of new and improved products and production processes. Using its unique rational approach towards the design of experiments and data analysis, Avantium is capable of accomplishing innovations with superior success rate. Avantium has demonstrated the validity and commercial viability of its technology by successfully providing research services and tools to more than 70 companies worldwide, including many industry leaders. The company's mission is to increase the success rate and economics of product and process development. Building on its expertise and track record in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, Avantium focuses on developing products in two fields: new biofuels and bio-based chemicals, and new crystal forms of marketed drugs under patent. Avantium's strategy is to progress its development programs and exploit the commercial value of its expanding patent portfolio by securing value-adding partnerships during the coming years. Avantium seeks continuous expansion of its profitable services and tools business. Avantium has assembled a team of highly educated professionals who are experts in catalysis, crystallography, organic chemistry, engineering of robotic systems, process engineering, statistics, cheminformatics and software development. Its teams collaborate closely with partner R&D organizations.
Eyefreight
Private Equity Round in 2014
Eyefreight is a prominent provider of Transportation Management System (TMS) technology, specializing in a web-based freight management application designed for large and multinational shippers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with an office in Chicago, Eyefreight offers a comprehensive solution that supports the key processes of multi-modal, multi-leg, international transportation management. Its platform facilitates shipment planning, transportation execution, and analytics, while also providing visibility and central coordination for complex global transport operations. Eyefreight's SaaS application is flexible and scalable, allowing for easy integration with existing systems and ensuring data security. Additionally, it aids in calculating emissions such as CO2, NOx, and SOx per freight unit shipped, enhancing sustainability in logistics. The company's technology aims to reduce costs, improve service levels, and transform logistics into a profit center for organizations across various industries worldwide.
Intergas
Venture Round in 2013
Intergas is an innovative company active in the production of high-efficiency heating boilers. The Intergas Combi Compact HRE boiler has ground breaking technology and incorporates the latest ’Double High Efficiency’ heat exchanger. Due to the separate central heating and hot water circuits the Intergas Combi Compact HRE doesn’t use a diverter valve and secondary domestic hot water plate heat exchanger. This eliminates a significant source of possible future component failures. Furthermore during hot water usage the pump isn’t in operation thus enhancing the lifespan of this critical component.
Talent&Pro
Acquisition in 2012
Talent & Pro is the market-leading total partner in the Netherlands in the field of secondment, projects and advice in financial services. Talent & Pro is active in banking and insurance, the actuarial market and the pension & life market. Within these market sectors more than 800 highly skilled talents and top professionals work actively supporting the work processes of our clients. The head office is in Utrecht.
Wiefferink
Acquisition in 2011
Wiefferink specializes in the design, production, and installation of flexible synthetic materials, primarily serving the agricultural, biogas, wastewater treatment, and industrial markets. The company manufactures a variety of products, including biogas silos, flexible covers for biogas systems, and specially designed manholes. Additionally, it produces air-blown covers, silo covers, flexitanks for drinking water storage in emergencies, and storage bags for sewage water and various liquids. Their manure bags are specifically designed for efficient manure storage. Wiefferink’s products are made from synthetic materials such as polyvinyl chloride, polyurethane, and polyethylene. The company focuses on creating materials with specialized properties, including gas-tight, gas-permeable, bacteria-proof, and fire-proof features, contributing to the reduction of carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
Avantium
Venture Round in 2011
Avantium is a leading technology company specialized in advanced high-throughput R&D for applications in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The company's headquarters and laboratories are located in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Avantium's proprietary high-throughput technology enables a faster and more cost-effective development of new and improved products and production processes. Using its unique rational approach towards the design of experiments and data analysis, Avantium is capable of accomplishing innovations with superior success rate. Avantium has demonstrated the validity and commercial viability of its technology by successfully providing research services and tools to more than 70 companies worldwide, including many industry leaders. The company's mission is to increase the success rate and economics of product and process development. Building on its expertise and track record in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, Avantium focuses on developing products in two fields: new biofuels and bio-based chemicals, and new crystal forms of marketed drugs under patent. Avantium's strategy is to progress its development programs and exploit the commercial value of its expanding patent portfolio by securing value-adding partnerships during the coming years. Avantium seeks continuous expansion of its profitable services and tools business. Avantium has assembled a team of highly educated professionals who are experts in catalysis, crystallography, organic chemistry, engineering of robotic systems, process engineering, statistics, cheminformatics and software development. Its teams collaborate closely with partner R&D organizations.
Brand New Day Bank
Private Equity Round in 2011
Brand New Day is provides asset management, wealth management, and insurance brokerage services.
Cassini Technologies
Series C in 2010
i-Optics is a medical device company based in 's-Gravenhage, the Netherlands, that specializes in developing innovative corneal diagnostic solutions for eye care professionals. Founded in 2013, the company offers advanced technologies such as the Cassini Corneal Shape Analyzer, which utilizes color LED technology to accurately measure corneal astigmatism, aiding in premium intraocular lens (IOL) planning. This system helps cataract surgeons enhance patient outcomes and reduce unexpected refractive results. Additionally, i-Optics provides the EasyScan, a zero-dilation retinal imaging system that employs scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) to diagnose various retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma. Through its user-friendly and cost-effective solutions, i-Optics aims to support eye care providers in delivering high-quality care to their patients.
Lightronics
Acquisition in 2008
Lightronics Participaties BV is a manufacturer of lighting equipment that focuses on developing and marketing a variety of lighting solutions. The company produces lighting products designed for diverse applications, including wall and ceiling fixtures, emergency lighting, exterior lighting, underpass and tunnel illumination, modular systems, and street lighting. Lightronics aims to provide clients with durable products that enhance lighting comfort and efficiency.
Mennens Groep
Acquisition in 2008
Mennens is a manufacturer and distributor of hoisting and lifting equipment, specializing in products such as steel wire rope, cranes, and various lifting accessories. The company serves diverse sectors, including construction, logistics, and industry, providing tailored solutions that emphasize safety and efficiency. Mennens also offers testing and certification services for lifting gear, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. In addition to its extensive product range, the company provides expert advice, maintenance, and repair services, reflecting its commitment to quality and safety in all aspects of its operations.
Excent
Private Equity Round in 2008
Excent Tandtechniek supports the dental practitioner with the aim to give people a functional, aesthetic, but above all radiant smile and therefore self-confidence. Excent provides optimum quality by focusing on digital production and services with highly trained employees. This enables us to offer our customers and their patients the most aesthetic and functional dental restorations. Our staff work passionately from 28 locations within the Benelux locally and nationally with many dental specialists and their patients.
STAR Group
Private Equity Round in 2007
STAR Group is a recruiting services firm that specializes in providing highly qualified technical staff for project support in the oil, gas, and power industries. The company works with a range of clients, including plant owners, engineering firms, and contractors, by offering skilled professionals on a project basis. As a market leader in its field, STAR Group focuses on connecting specialists and professionals with organizations that require their expertise, thereby facilitating successful project execution across these critical sectors.
Robidus
Acquisition in 2007
Robidus provides social security software used in a range of industries. Robidus is a full-service player around sickness and disability and the associated risks and costs affecting employers and insurers. It offers advisory, outsourcing services, and insurance intermediation to corporates and some outsourcing services around claims handling to insurers.