Stichting Doen

Stichting Doen, based in Amsterdam, is a Dutch foundation dedicated to fostering initiatives that promote cultural cohesion and a sustainable economy. Its investment arm, DOEN Participaties, specializes in making fund-of-fund investments in innovative, early-stage companies oriented towards generating social and environmental impact. Founded in 1996, DOEN Participaties emphasizes sustainable development and may engage in co-investment for larger transactions, although it does not pursue individual equity investments. The foundation's overarching mission encompasses supporting cultural, social, and ecological innovation, striving to create a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Michelle De Rijk

Investment Manager

60 past transactions

LeydenJar Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
LeydenJar Technologies BV is a spin out venture from Dutch Energy research center ECN. They are developing pure silicon anodes to boost the energy density of Li-ion battery cells. Their production method is based on altered Linear MW PECVD technology. PECVD is commonly used in the Photovoltaic and Semiconductor industry. They deposit the pure silicon directly on copper foil, providing a high capacity- and cost efficient alternative to graphite based anodes, produced with a capital intensive coating process.

Nuventura

Venture Round in 2021
Nuventura GmbH designs and develops gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). It serves to manufacturers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Aectual

Venture Round in 2018
Aectual B.V. develops robotic XL 3D printers and software tools which produce building products combining parametric design, engineering, and digital manufacturing constraints. It provides Aectual floors, a 3D printed flooring system with a classic terrazzo infill. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

reNature

Seed Round in 2021
ReNature helps farmers to change the production method into a sustainable agroforestry system. It teaches farmers on how to grow different types of crops together that support and each other and improve the condition of the soil. ReNature provides information, guidance and support to local authorities, cooperatives and farmers in making a sustainable agriculture in the form of agroforestry. ReNature was founded in January 5, 2018.

The Renewal Workshop

Series A in 2021
The Renewal Workshop partners with the world’s best- loved brands and retailers to renew their “unsellable” returns and excess inventory.

MX3D

Venture Round in 2021
MX3D is a highly innovative company that developed a groundbreaking additive manufacturing method. They can 3D print metals and resin in mid-air, without the need for support structures. They believe that They are at the beginning of a revolution: digital design and fabrication are changing rapidly. The possibilities are endless. With Their MX3D Bridge project They will showcase how digital fabrication is finally entering the world of large scale, functional objects made of durable materials.

Ecovative Design

Venture Round in 2013
Ecovative Design LLC is a biomaterials company that envisions, develops, produces, and markets earth friendly sustainable materials. Its products include Myco board that is used for furniture components and work surfaces; Myco foam that is used in packaging, insulation, and acoustics development applications; Myco make for use in teddy bears, balls, and more; and Myco flex and grow materials. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Green Island, New York with manufacturing facilities in Troy; and Paradise, California.

swap-studio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
swap-studio is an exclusive online community where reuse is a lifestyle choice. It is changing the face of the resale industry with a resurgence of the barter system, but without the need to give-and-take from the same person. Members swap things they no longer want using a community currency called ‘kudos’. Current collections include fashion, living and kids products. All products are curated in-house for quality and individuality. Via a Zero Waste Partnership Program, swap-studio also partners with selected retail brands to to offer a sustainable liquidation strategy for overstock and showcase their commitment to a circular economy. Membership to swap-studio via a monthly subscription which allows members to accumulate kudos and swap an unlimited number of items. There is no money exchanged between parties to a swap, only Kudos. Currently only available in the Netherlands with a staged global rollout planned for 2022.

Woon Duurzaam

Seed Round in 2021
Woon Duurzaam provides a innovative one-stop-shop cloud platform that brings consumers clarity in the business of home renovation. It connects customers requiring a sustainable home with energy saving & generating equipment suppliers and high quality installers. It provides an affordable energy sustainable home with the expected comfort and without hassle.

Fairphone

Private Placement in 2018
Fairphone B.V. designs, produces, and sells smartphones, accessories, and spare parts to consumers in Europe. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The Ketchup Club

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The Ketchup Project is developing a local drying hub. The Ketchup Project specializes in processing dried tomatoes and mangoes into ketchup, enabling customers to buy ketchup made from fruit and farmers to sell their harvest.

Fairphone

Venture Round in 2017
Fairphone B.V. designs, produces, and sells smartphones, accessories, and spare parts to consumers in Europe. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

SUNT food

Seed Round in 2021
SUNT is an Amsterdam-based startup that makes food products from discarded bananas.

Woon Duurzaam

Seed Round in 2022
Woon Duurzaam provides a innovative one-stop-shop cloud platform that brings consumers clarity in the business of home renovation. It connects customers requiring a sustainable home with energy saving & generating equipment suppliers and high quality installers. It provides an affordable energy sustainable home with the expected comfort and without hassle.

Bboxx

Private Placement in 2019
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Oorja aims to provide clean energy access to 450 million un/underelectrified people in rural Indian communities. They deploy smart micro-grids powered by biomass gasification and solar PV systems to generate, store and transmit reliable and affordable electricity to SMEs as anchor load and low-income households. They use a scaleable community-owned business model to leverage energy provision as a catalyst for socio-economic development to alleviate poverty, empower women and tackle climate change.

Woon Duurzaam

Seed Round in 2019
Woon Duurzaam provides a innovative one-stop-shop cloud platform that brings consumers clarity in the business of home renovation. It connects customers requiring a sustainable home with energy saving & generating equipment suppliers and high quality installers. It provides an affordable energy sustainable home with the expected comfort and without hassle.

Bleeve

Seed Round in 2016
Bleeve provides a social internet platform that connects people on the topic of saving and producing energy at home. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Taimba

Seed Round in 2020
Taimba Limited operates a business-to-business mobile-based platform. Its platform connects farmers to retailers. Taimba Limited was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Bboxx

Venture Round in 2015
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Black Bear Carbon

Private Placement in 2018
Black Bear Carbon BV engages in the conversion of waste/end-of-life tires into carbon black and green energy in the Netherlands and internationally. Its carbon black is used for various applications, including tires, technical rubber products, plastics, and paint and ink. The company uses its electricity to power the local operations (tire shredding), as well as delivers to nearby industries or grids. Black Bear Carbon BV was founded in 2010 and is based in Nederweert, the Netherlands.

Fairphone

Venture Round in 2018
Fairphone B.V. designs, produces, and sells smartphones, accessories, and spare parts to consumers in Europe. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Reverse Resources

Convertible Note in 2019
RR is disrupting the way how fashion industry handles waste from its production. We help to bring down the cost of sourcing of waste for textile recyclers and help along to scaling up circular economy.

Simusolar

Debt Financing in 2016
Simusolar increases rural prosperity by selling and financing productive equipment to farmers and small businesses. It provides and finances accessible, affordable, and energy-efficient equipment designed for off-grid businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its systems are designed to meet the needs of rural smallholders, from equipment specifications to innovative financing terms.

Bboxx

Series B in 2015
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Taimba

Grant in 2019
Taimba Limited operates a business-to-business mobile-based platform. Its platform connects farmers to retailers. Taimba Limited was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

VIGGA

Seed Round in 2016
The VIGGA™ product-service-system enables parents to subscribe to the use of high-quality organic maternity and kids wear on a continues basis, addressing a universal fact: pregnancy bellies and kids grow, and clothes don’t. By May 2017, VIGGA circulated over 100,000 pieces of designers clothing; our customers have together achieved water savings of 7,5 million litres and reduced their CO2 emissions by 7 tonnes by sharing VIGGA clothes with each other. Re-use beats re-cycling by far… Our LCA studies show great benefits compared to traditional consumption: - 53% less climate impact - 59% less acidification effect - 72% lower use of material resources - 90% lower water use

Land Life Company

Series A in 2018
Land Life Company B.V. provides reforestation services in the European Union and the United States. It develops Cocoon planting technology to plant trees in arid soils. The company manufactures and supplies a biodegradable product that helps plants to grow without irrigation and maintenance. Its products are used in nature restoration, urban and highway landscaping, highway planting, and productive trees plantation applications worldwide. Land Life Company B.V. was founded in 2013 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Oorja aims to provide clean energy access to 450 million un/underelectrified people in rural Indian communities. They deploy smart micro-grids powered by biomass gasification and solar PV systems to generate, store and transmit reliable and affordable electricity to SMEs as anchor load and low-income households. They use a scaleable community-owned business model to leverage energy provision as a catalyst for socio-economic development to alleviate poverty, empower women and tackle climate change.

NEFFA

Seed Round in 2024
NEFFA The fashion industry is one of the most polluting in the world: the sector is responsible for 8 to 10% of global CO2 emissions and accounts for ~20% of industrial water contamination. Conventional materials such as cotton require an immense amount of resources, semi-finished products travel all over the globe for various steps in the production process, and overproduction is anchored in the fundaments of the business model of fashion brands. Through the NEFFA production method, design is done directly in 3D, offering an innovative way to rethink fashion design. A digital design interface offers options to apply all kinds of parametric textures in the blink of an eye. The final design is turned into an affordable and recyclable 3D mold with a variety of digital technologies. This is possible because the manufacturing method does not require any high heat or pressure so the molds can be like blisters. In the meantime, the biomass is grown in large fermentation tanks. NEFFA currently works with mycelium – creating a material called MycoTEX – but their system can also work with other biomaterials that can be grown through liquid fermentation, such as algae or even collagen.

Fairphone

Venture Round in 2023
Fairphone B.V. designs, produces, and sells smartphones, accessories, and spare parts to consumers in Europe. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Triple Solar

Venture Round in 2023
Triple Solar is to provide a home or any other building with electricity, heat, and hot tap water in a sustainable manner. Natural gas free.

Triple Solar

Venture Round in 2021
Triple Solar is to provide a home or any other building with electricity, heat, and hot tap water in a sustainable manner. Natural gas free.

Woon Duurzaam

Venture Round in 2022
Woon Duurzaam provides a innovative one-stop-shop cloud platform that brings consumers clarity in the business of home renovation. It connects customers requiring a sustainable home with energy saving & generating equipment suppliers and high quality installers. It provides an affordable energy sustainable home with the expected comfort and without hassle.

Aectual

Private Placement in 2018
Aectual B.V. develops robotic XL 3D printers and software tools which produce building products combining parametric design, engineering, and digital manufacturing constraints. It provides Aectual floors, a 3D printed flooring system with a classic terrazzo infill. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

ZONNEPANELENDELEN

Debt Financing in 2022
Zonnepanelendelen B.V. develops and operates a Web based crowd-funding platform for collective solar-energy initiatives. The company offers document management system, on how to develop a solar power plant; administrative system, for atomized back-office support for each project; and online monitoring tool for the consumers, to track and experience investment. It supports various local renewable-energy initiatives with the realization of projects by providing financing, contracting, administration, and management services. it also operates an mobile application for users. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Borges3D B.V.

Private Placement in 2020
Borges3D B.V. manufactures Vision Robot, a tool that automatically removes and sorts 3D printed parts and provides end-to-end digital manufacturing solutions. The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) software for product and process automation in the field of 3D-shape identification. It also supplies industrial machine vision systems for the additive manufacturing market. AM-Flow offers modules such as AM-Expert, AM-Logic, AM-Sort, AM-Route, and AM-Package. Borges3D B.V. was founded in 2018 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Hubs

Seed Round in 2013
3D Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing partners. Users can easily upload their design, instantly receive a quote, and start production at the click of a button. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, 3D Hubs has raised over US$30 million and produced more than 5 million parts, using various manufacturing technologies, including CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Injection Molding and Sheet Metal Fabrication.

Hubs

Series A in 2014
3D Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing partners. Users can easily upload their design, instantly receive a quote, and start production at the click of a button. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, 3D Hubs has raised over US$30 million and produced more than 5 million parts, using various manufacturing technologies, including CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Injection Molding and Sheet Metal Fabrication.

Land Life Company

Series A in 2020
Land Life Company B.V. provides reforestation services in the European Union and the United States. It develops Cocoon planting technology to plant trees in arid soils. The company manufactures and supplies a biodegradable product that helps plants to grow without irrigation and maintenance. Its products are used in nature restoration, urban and highway landscaping, highway planting, and productive trees plantation applications worldwide. Land Life Company B.V. was founded in 2013 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Bundles

Venture Round in 2014
Bundles started Wasbundles to more households qualitative, durable washing machine at an attractive price let use. The difference with the current rent / lease offer that we are using may Bundles'Buddy was more clean from one machine get along with you.

Sowlis, Inc

Private Placement in 2018
Sowlis, Inc develops and produces The OFF GRID BOX, a self-contained utility system that enables independent living in various environments, whether by choice or as a result of natural disasters. Its system filters and sterilizes the water to be used at home, for animals, or in the garden, as well as produces electricity. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Inspirafarms

Series A in 2017
InspiraFarms supplies turnkey, modular, and affordable agricultural processing and value addition platform to the small scale fruit, vegetable, and dairy industries that meet global food safety certification and quality standards for the supply of healthy and nutritious food to local and international markets.

Land Life Company

Series A in 2017
Land Life Company B.V. provides reforestation services in the European Union and the United States. It develops Cocoon planting technology to plant trees in arid soils. The company manufactures and supplies a biodegradable product that helps plants to grow without irrigation and maintenance. Its products are used in nature restoration, urban and highway landscaping, highway planting, and productive trees plantation applications worldwide. Land Life Company B.V. was founded in 2013 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Reverse Resources

Grant in 2018
RR is disrupting the way how fashion industry handles waste from its production. We help to bring down the cost of sourcing of waste for textile recyclers and help along to scaling up circular economy.

Notpla

Seed Round in 2020
Notpla Limited manufactures packaging products for beverages and sauces. It offers sachets, and water proofing and grease proofing cardboard takeaway boxes. Notpla Limited was formerly known as Skipping Rocks Lab Limited and changed its name to Notpla Limited in July 2019. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Bboxx

Series D in 2019
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Black Bear Carbon

Venture Round in 2018
Black Bear Carbon BV engages in the conversion of waste/end-of-life tires into carbon black and green energy in the Netherlands and internationally. Its carbon black is used for various applications, including tires, technical rubber products, plastics, and paint and ink. The company uses its electricity to power the local operations (tire shredding), as well as delivers to nearby industries or grids. Black Bear Carbon BV was founded in 2010 and is based in Nederweert, the Netherlands.

OffGridBox

Seed Round in 2018
OffGridBox is a modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas and developing countries. Their OffGridBox™, an all-in-one system, fits entirely inside a 6x6x6 feet shipping container and is equipped with all the hardware needed to produce electricity and clean water. This innovative technology is a solution for more than 2 billion people worldwide that need energy and clean water on a daily basis. One unit potentially managed by a local women co-op in a Rwandese village can impact up to 300 families (circa 1500 people) providing Tier 1 electricity and sterilized water. They deployed 38 units in 9 Countries (Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar, US and Colombia) for different segments: humanitarian, household retail, service to industry. These units have operated more than 400,000 working hours.

ENVision mobile

Grant in 2018
ENVision mobile's business intelligence platform provides shared data analytics between suppliers and micro-retailers in emerging markets.

Bboxx

Series C in 2016
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

WeShareSolar

Seed Round in 2015
WeShareSolar is the crowdfunding platform that connects consumers who are looking for low-risk investments to local solar energy projects that need funding. WeShareSolar allows users to track the production of their investments online.

Hubs

Series B in 2016
3D Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing partners. Users can easily upload their design, instantly receive a quote, and start production at the click of a button. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, 3D Hubs has raised over US$30 million and produced more than 5 million parts, using various manufacturing technologies, including CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Injection Molding and Sheet Metal Fabrication.

Nuventura

Series A in 2023
Nuventura GmbH designs and develops gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). It serves to manufacturers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.