Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.

Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, and direct participations in small and medium-sized companies.

 Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for.

 They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.

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Smartmat raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-08-01 in Venture Round

Smartmat N.V. provides food delivery services in the form of dinner boxes. The company focuses on local and biological ingredients. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Smartmat N.V.

Sitemark raised $5497072 on 2019-09-23 in Series A

Sitemark develops a platform and application that help its users improve operational efficiency through high quality aerial data. The platform provides services, such as precise measurements of distance, area, volume, gradient, and temperature. The application developed by the company helps users plan automated flight paths. The company caters to industries, such as solar, construction, and mining and aggregates. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Sitemark

Amphivena Therapeutics raised $62000000 on 2019-09-24 in Series C

Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. develops bifunctional antibody therapies for hematologic malignancies. It eradicates blood cancers with a therapy that harnesses the patient’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells and their precursors. Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Affimed Spinco Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Affimed N.V.

Amphivena Therapeutics

Trunkrs raised $15929333 on 2022-06-09 in Series B

Trunkrs is offers same-day delivery to webshops, is investing in the electrification of the distribution and distribution centers.

Trunkrs BV

Sensorfact raised $14494224 on 2022-01-28 in Venture Round

Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry.

The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant.

Sensorfact B.V.

Voltalia raised $17440684 on 2015-01-15 in Post-IPO Equity

Voltalia is a power producer and service provider in renewable electricity production from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energies (combining storage solutions). Voltalia has developed a strong expertise throughout the value chain of a renewable project: project development, project financing, EPC and operation & maintenance. The Group is active in 20 countries and is able to offer services to its clients worldwide.

As of December 31, 2018, Voltalia has developed and sold more than 1.8 GW and built more than 1.3 GW. It operates more than 1 GW and owns more than 0.5 GW of consolidated installed capacity.

Voltalia SA

Inscripta raised $49999996 on 2020-11-13 in Venture Round

Inscripta, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company. The company engages in developing CRISPR enzymes (MADzymes) for precision gene editing. Inscripta, Inc. was formerly known as Muse Biotechnology, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. It has additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, California.

Inscripta, Inc

Genae raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-03-21 in Venture Round

genae is the leading medical device Contract Research Organization (CRO) that accelerates innovation through collaborative insights & global expertise with results that matter. Dedicated to Medical Devices, delivering what is promised.

Genae

Planet-eco raised an undisclosed amount on 2010-06-02 in Venture Round

Planet-eco is an installation company of sustainable energy technologies such as heat pumps, gas condensing boilers, solar boilers, heat pump boilers and solar panels, we would like to inspire you. We analyze your current or future energy consumption and install unique, tailor-made solutions that explain the technical, financial, fiscal and subsidy related aspects.

Planet-eco NV

Sahyadri Farms raised $39016355 on 2022-09-14 in Venture Round

Sahyadri Farms

Ampacimon raised $4736031 on 2020-08-26 in Venture Round

Ampacimon develops dynamic line rating systems for transmission and distribution systems operators. Ampacimon’s products address grid infrastructure challenges such as aging assets, transmissions congestion, renewable integration, interconnectors.

Ampacimon SA

Sensorfact raised $4363861 on 2021-03-26 in Series A

Biocartis raised $45032932 on 2012-12-12 in Series D

Biocartis SA, a molecular diagnostics company, develops diagnostics technology platform for multiplexed detection of bio-analytes. It focuses on integrated molecular and immunodiagnostics based on its proprietary micro-technology platform. The company develops and licenses a series of technologies to build a diagnostics platform for multiplexed detection, quantification, and amplification of bio-analytes, including proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules. Its products are used for various applications, including analysis of bio-molecules associated with risks factors, early detection, staging, treatment selection, and monitoring of a disease. Biocartis SA was founded in 2007 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Biocartis Group NV

Mimetas raised $20500000 on 2018-04-11 in Series B

MIMETAS B.V. develops microfluidics-based culture plates that enable culturing and screening of a range of 3D organ and tissue models. The company's product portfolio includes OrganoPlate 2-lane, OrganoPlate 3-lane, and perfusion rocker. It offers OrganoPlates microfluidics-based culture plates that serve as early stage screening models predicting toxic side effects and drug efficacy. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Mimetas

MyOptique Group raised $27247445 on 2014-06-23 in Series C

The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

MyOptique Group

Bricsnet raised $13000000 on 2007-10-17 in Venture Round

A comprehensive and easy-to-use Integrated Workplace Management System. Bricsnet brings your real estate portfolio into perspective, so that you can better understand and manage its impact on your business. Whether your focus is financial oversight, operations or planning, Bricsnet Enterprise provides both global oversight and detailed insight into the issues that keep you awake. Their comprehensive application suite addresses Project Management, Lease Administration, Real Estate Transactions, Budgeting, Planning, Space Occupancy and Utilization, Maintenance, Repairs, Operations and more â all completely modular so you can get to work fast and focus on what's critical to your business.

Bricsnet

Greenbyte AB raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-09-18 in Venture Round

Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Greenbyte AB

reMYND raised $14598682 on 2021-01-21 in Series B

Their Contract Research Organization (CRO) helps their clients assess the effects of their experimental Alzheimer treatments in their proprietary mouse models.

They serve the majority of the Top 10 pharmaco’s worldwide with clients in the US, Europe and Japan. They have provided pivotal in-vivo proof-of-concept data for several candidate drugs currently in clinical development, and work actively together with Dr. Sugimoto, the inventor of Aricept.

reMYND nv

Agendia raised $65000000 on 2012-05-31 in Private Equity Round

Agendia's molecular diagnostic technology provides cancer patients and their physicians with a glimpse into their genome, answers to the most pressing questions and enables personalized treatment plans. Agendia’s breast cancer tests were developed using an unbiased gene selection by analyzing the complete human genome.  Agendia’s tests can help physicians assess a patient’s individual risk for metastasis, which patients may benefit from chemo, hormonal or combination therapy, and which patients may not require these treatments and can instead be treated with other, less arduous and less costly methods.

Agendia, Inc.

URBANTZ raised $6709585 on 2020-03-12 in Series A

Urbantz is a delivery management platform to optimize and control first and last mile operations, from the initial order to the final recipient. The award-winning SaaS solution enables retailers, e-commerce players and carriers to provide recipients an outstanding delivery experience.

URBANTZ

reMYND raised $13651022 on 2018-12-18 in Venture Round

Bluebee raised $11380098 on 2016-03-31 in Series A

Bluebee Holding B.V. develops cloud-based accelerated genomics analysis platform that enables processing of sequencing data. The company’s Bluebee genomics platform supports cross-functional teams of life science researchers and clinicians in processing, managing, and sharing sequence data. The company also offers data analytics and aggregation and customized user experience. It serves research centers, sequencing service providers, clinical labs, and kit providers. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. As of June 17, 2020, Bluebee Holding B.V. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina, Inc.

Bluebee Holding B.V.

ProDigest raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-11-15 in Venture Round

ProDigest provides customized solutions related to gastrointestinal research to the operators in the market of food/feed, functional food/feed and pharmaceutical industry. 

Our expertise in the field of gastrointestinal transit, bioavailability and metabolism of food/feed compounds and pharmaceuticals, in relation to their fate and function in the body, makes ProDigest an essential partner for innovative product development.

ProDigest

ONTOFORCE raised $5328297 on 2018-01-25 in Series A

ONTOFORCE N.V. provides disQover, a search engine that establishes intelligent links between different autonomous sources of information. Its disQover connects internal and private data with external and public information. The company offers schoolKID, a platform that contains students’ information and is accessible to various schools; and consultancy services. ONTOFORCE N.V. was founded in 2011 and is based in Gent, Belgium.

ONTOFORCE N.V.

VoltStorage raised $6938846 on 2020-07-22 in Venture Round

VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thus making the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.

VoltStorage

MyOptique Group raised $31168620 on 2015-08-17 in Venture Round

Parkwind raised an undisclosed amount on 2013-01-01 in Seed Round

Parkwind NV develops, finances, builds, and operates wind farms in the North Sea. Parkwind NV has a strategic partnership with Sumitomo Corporation.

Parkwind

Korys acquires Eurowatt on 2014-10-13 for an undisclosed amount

Eurowatt is an independent producer of electricity produced from renewable energy.

Actor recognized in France and in Europe, the group ensures all the phases of a project and masters all the activities of the wind:

Development
Construction
exploitation
With more than 10 years of experience in the development and production of renewable energy, he is now one of the fifteen main developers of wind farms in France, with more than 160 wind turbines (300 MW) and 78 in operation (154 MW).

Eurowatt SCA

Korys acquires Ojah on 2017-02-01 for an undisclosed amount

Ojah b.v. produces gluten free foods and meat. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ochten, the Netherlands. As of June 30, 2018, Ojah b.v. operates as a subsidiary of Kerry Group plc.

Ojah b.v.

Greenbyte AB raised $6156278 on 2018-03-28 in Venture Round

Greenbyte AB raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-12-22 in Venture Round

Inge Watertechnologies raised $8004792 on 2007-03-21 in Series B

Inge develops ultrafiltration technology for drinking water, sea water, waste water, and processed water.

Inge Watertechnologies

SET Ventures raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-01-19 in Funding Round

Since 2007, Amsterdam-based SET Ventures has invested in European technology companies that impact the future of the energy system. SET Ventures focuses broadly on innovative energy generation, energy distribution and storage and energy efficiency. SET Fund III provides early growth-stage capital to ventures that shape the energy system transition through smart software and services-based business models.

SET Ventures

Eneida raised $5155243 on 2020-10-16 in Series A

Eneida designs and develops smart sensors and artificial intelligence applications for resilient and agile low voltage grid. Its product called Deep Grid is a collaborative energy IoT platform for the remote and online optimization of the low voltage network.

The company aims to help electric utilities to make the most of their low voltage network.

Eneida was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in  Coimbra, Portugal.