Innovation Industries is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm focused on deep-tech investments across Europe. Headquartered in Amsterdam, it backs early-stage and growth-stage startups in high-tech, medtech, agtech and agritech sectors, with a preference for technologies that address fundamental global challenges. The firm combines capital with active involvement, providing strategic guidance, industry connections, and operational support to accelerate product development and time-to-market, foster global partnerships, and enhance value creation for portfolio companies. It emphasizes sustainability and ESG considerations and aims to build enduring companies through hands-on collaboration rather than passive funding. While based in the Netherlands, its activities span the European region, seeking opportunities that can scale internationally and generate long-term returns for investors.

InnovationQuarter is the regional development agency for Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands. It drives innovation and economic growth by helping companies innovate, invest and internationalize, and by organizing cooperation among entrepreneurs, knowledge institutes and government. The organization provides lifecycle financing for ambitious Zuid-Holland companies with innovative products and solid business models, covering all stages from proof-of-concept to growth funding and potential exit. It also supports foreign firms in establishing a base in Zuid-Holland and connects companies to international partners and regional opportunities. Focus sectors include Energy & Chemistry, Maritime & Port, Hightech Manufacturing & Aerospace, Digital Technology & Cybersecurity, Horticulture & Food, and Life Sciences & Health.

BOM is an investment organization that backs innovative start-ups and growth companies, aiming to drive economic growth, create jobs, and address social challenges; it leverages its expertise, resources, and network to develop and finance renewable energy projects.

The European Innovation Council is a Brussels-based European Union organization established in 2018 to support deep‑tech innovation by helping startups, researchers and technology transfer activities move ideas toward market. It operates a portfolio of programs including Pathfinder, Accelerator, Transition, STEP Scale Up and Pre-Accelerator, and collaborates with partners to provide funding, mentorship and resources across the innovation lifecycle. The council emphasizes high-impact, science‑driven technologies with broad societal benefit and promotes inclusion, with initiatives to involve women‑led projects. It engages the wider ecosystem through awards, events and community initiatives and monitors impact through data platforms. By coordinating with private investors and other stakeholders, it aims to accelerate the scale-up of European deep‑tech firms and strengthen Europe’s position in global technology leadership.

FORWARD.one is a venture capital firm based in the Netherlands that concentrates on early-stage hardware and industrial technology investments in Europe. Founded in 2017, it aims to turn scientific breakthroughs into commercial successes by combining speed and pragmatism with a relentless focus on go-to-market execution. The team includes financial professionals, engineers, startup entrepreneurs and scientists who have hands-on startup experience. It typically makes initial investments up to several million euros and reserves follow-on capital for top performers, backing sectors such as robotics, semiconductors, quantum technologies, dual-use applications, energy and AI-enabled edge deployments. Its portfolio spans lab breakthroughs, next-generation fabrication, autonomous systems and software-defined silicon for radio. The firm emphasizes practical commercialization and scalable impact, supported by platforms like DRF to advance Moore's Law. With offices in Amstelveen and Amsterdam, FORWARD.one seeks Europe’s next tech champions by accelerating time-to-market and broad industrial adoption.

Thuja Capital is a European venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in life sciences and healthcare. Based in the Netherlands (operating from Leiden and Utrecht), the firm backs startups across medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, biopharmaceuticals, digital health, and related platforms and formulations. Thuja Capital emphasizes partnering with visionary CEOs to translate scientific advances into clinically meaningful solutions, leveraging deep sector expertise and a broad network across academia, industry, and clinical research. It typically invests at seed and early stages and often acts as lead or co-investor, sometimes taking a seat on the company's supervisory board. The firm targets opportunities in the Benelux region and Western Europe.

European Investment Bank is a key financial institution of the European Union that finances projects across Europe and beyond to promote sustainable development. It focuses on climate action, innovation, regional development, and infrastructure, providing financing through loans, guarantees, and advisory services to public and private sectors; supports large-scale infrastructure, technology development, and access to capital for enterprises; aligns with EU priorities such as the European Green Deal and digital transformation, including initiatives like InvestEU and Ukraine's recovery. It operates globally with a significant presence in the EU and neighboring regions, aiming to boost growth, create jobs, and improve living standards, while upholding transparency, accountability, and stakeholder engagement.

INKEF Capital is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm focused on technology, healthcare and biotech. It backs early-stage through growth-stage companies in Europe, with a long-term, patient investment approach and typically supports follow-on rounds. The firm seeks to co-invest and provides advisory services, aiming to help portfolio companies scale internationally and achieve sustainable returns.

Holland Capital is an independent Dutch private equity firm founded in 1981 and based in Amsterdam. It focuses on value creation through venture, growth and buy-out investments, with a strategy centered on healthcare and technology across IT services, software, high-tech, agrifood tech, advanced equipment and energy transition. The firm combines entrepreneurial drive with investment expertise to support management teams in scalable expansion and international growth, offering growth financing and buyout capital. It operates from two offices in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf and maintains a hands-on team of more than 40 professionals. Since inception, Holland Capital has completed more than 200 investments, reflecting its long-standing commitment to advancing healthcare quality and efficiency and leveraging technological progress.

Forbion is a venture capital firm based in Naarden, Netherlands, with over twenty years of experience investing in biotech and life sciences. It focuses on human health, planetary health, and the bioeconomy, supporting early-stage and growth investments across Europe and North America in drug development, MedTech, and sustainable solutions. Its portfolio includes gene therapy and other innovative therapies for rare diseases. Forbion manages funds totaling about €5 billion in committed capital across multiple vehicles and prioritizes ESG principles in its investment approach, seeking to accelerate scientific advances and drive long-term value for portfolio companies.

UNIIQ is an early-stage investment company based in The Hague, Netherlands, founded in 2016 to support South Holland entrepreneurs in bringing research-driven ideas to market. The fund focuses on the proof-of-concept phase, providing startup capital as convertible loans and intensive strategic guidance from a network of academic and market experts. By collaborating with knowledge institutions and incubators, UNIIQ helps validate innovations, de-risk concepts, and prepare ventures for follow-on funding. The portfolio emphasizes research-driven startups in life sciences, deeptech and high-tech sectors that originate from universities and research institutes. The approach combines entrepreneur-friendly terms with a clear progression path to subsequent financing, aiming to increase the share of ventures that attract further investment and accelerate technology transfer and regional impact.

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, with offices in Ghent and Amsterdam. Founded in 2014, it focuses on seed and early-stage investments in Benelux internet and software companies, particularly B2B software, enterprise software, and SaaS. The firm collaborates closely with founders, supported by a network of business angels, to help identify new markets, hire senior talent, and drive go-to-market and international growth. It typically makes initial investments ranging from a few hundred thousand to a couple of million euros, with the potential for follow-on rounds as portfolio companies scale. Volta Ventures emphasizes a founder-first approach and aims to back software startups that can build scalable solutions for business customers across the Benelux region.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based venture capital firm established in 2005 that funds early-stage technology startups in Germany. Based in Bonn with an office in Berlin, it supports companies across software, information technology, digital and industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, IoT, energy, and related fields by providing initial capital and subsequent funding, complemented by active guidance from investment managers. The firm typically acts as a lead investor and cooperates with other investors to help portfolio companies advance from concept to market, with a focus on startups that have begun commercial operations. By combining financing with hands-on support, HTGF aims to help high-potential founders develop their technology, validate products, and scale within the German market.

Graduate Ventures is a Dutch venture capital firm based in Rotterdam that supports Dutch founders from pre-seed to late growth stages. It provides funding from €75,000 to €2,000,000 and offers a network of experienced coaches, fellow founders, and industry experts to accompany founders at every step. The firm has backed 73 companies and maintains about 200 alumni who can provide ongoing guidance. With a fund size of €58 million, Graduate Ventures also runs events, workshops, and meetups to facilitate knowledge exchange and connections within the Dutch startup ecosystem.

SHIFT Invest is a Dutch environmental impact venture capital firm based in Amstelveen that provides early-stage funding and hands-on support to entrepreneurs developing scalable solutions to climate and nature-related challenges. The firm seeks to pair financial returns with positive environmental and social impact, leveraging a broad network to help portfolio companies grow. Its investment focus spans food and agriculture, green industries, energy transition, and sustainable mobility and logistics, with additional activity in biobased technologies, water and clean technologies, agriculture and nutrients, and health-related applications. SHIFT Invest emphasizes sustainability and inclusivity, and aims to help founders scale innovations that address systemic environmental issues while creating value for society.

Newion Investments is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam and established in 2000. It concentrates on early-stage B2B software companies in Benelux and northwest Europe, with a preference for software-driven businesses that can become category leaders. The firm adopts a founder-centric, data-driven approach, making decisions case by case and maintaining close collaboration with founders to understand work processes, identify durable value drivers, and support growth through portfolio companies' lifecycle. Its stated mission is to help entrepreneurs build durable software platforms that deliver sustainable impact and attractive returns to investors. Newion Investments supports companies across enterprise software, cloud, CRM, and data governance sectors, often taking minority stakes and providing strategic guidance, interim leadership, and governance resources. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships over quick exits and seeks to back teams that address real operational needs in business-to-business markets, primarily in the Benelux with expansion into nearby European markets.

Rubio Impact Ventures is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm dedicated to backing impact-driven, mid- to late-stage companies. Based in Amsterdam, it concentrates on opportunities in the Netherlands and seeks scalable solutions across sectors such as healthcare, nutrition, fitness, energy, information technology, education technology, food technology, climate technology, and other technology-enabled areas. The firm emphasizes positive social and environmental outcomes and backs entrepreneurs delivering solutions with broad societal benefits, including assistance for vulnerable populations. It typically makes equity investments in the mid-range, approximately €0.5 million to €8 million, and focuses on growth-stage opportunities within the Dutch market. Founded in the mid-2010s, Rubio Impact Ventures operates from Amsterdam to support sustainable, system-changing ventures.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It is stage-agnostic, backing seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range of fifty thousand to five million dollars. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm leverages its network and experience in the marketplace sector to support founders aiming for rapid growth. The firm maintains a broad portfolio across e-commerce, on-demand services, fintech, and related technologies, with notable investments in Alibaba, Coupang, Delivery Hero, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest. FJ Labs emphasizes partnerships with visionary founders and uses its sector expertise to help portfolio companies scale and achieve expansion.

Gimv is a European investment company based in Antwerp, Belgium, focused on private equity and venture capital investments since 1980. It builds a diversified portfolio across sectors including consumer, healthcare, life sciences, smart industries, energy and sustainable cities, with an emphasis on ambitious, innovative companies located in the Benelux, France and the DACH region. The firm operates through dedicated platforms such as Consumer Healthcare, Smart Industries, Sustainable Cities and Anchor investments, pursuing long-term equity investments and value creation through strong management, solid balance sheets and disciplined growth strategies. Its portfolio comprises dozens of companies with a combined turnover measured in the billions and tens of thousands of employees, reflecting Gimvil's approach to partnering with management teams to drive sustainable growth in Europe.

HenQ is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage B2B software startups across Europe, focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds. It typically makes initial investments up to €10 million and provides hands-on, founder-focused support to help build sustainable, scalable businesses, prioritizing committed founders with distinctive business models.

Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that provides convertible loans to startups and small and medium-sized enterprises in Noord-Holland. Founded in 2018, it primarily invests in the Province of Noord-Holland across sectors including circular economy, life science, health, sustainable mobility, high-tech systems, information technology, and energy. The firm typically funds between 50,000 and 300,000 euros per transaction, with convertible loans bearing 8% interest per year and a maximum duration of 10 years.

Borski Fund is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm that prioritizes gender diversity in its investment approach, backing female-led and diverse teams to reduce the gender gap in venture funding. It invests across healthcare, retail, climate tech, and future societies, providing capital and networks to support growth. The firm is co-managed with StartGreen Capital, reflecting a collaborative governance model. By aligning capital with inclusive entrepreneurship, Borski Fund seeks to deliver social impact alongside financial performance.

Positron Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam that focuses on investing in science-based startups in life sciences and technology. Founded in 2022, the firm backs scientist-entrepreneurs aiming to address major global challenges and provides support across all stages of company building, with emphasis on early-stage capital and deep ongoing involvement. The firm seeks to lead or participate in capital raises and offers strategic guidance and hands-on operational support from the outset. Its portfolio includes companies such as Senara, Ore Energy, Renaissance Fusion, and CellX, reflecting interests in cell-based biology, energy storage, fusion, and environmental remediation, among others. Positron Ventures combines scientific insight with venture experience to help translate research into practical applications.

Healthy.Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2017, that backs health and care startups at early and growth stages with digital health and health-tech solutions. The firm pursues seed and growth investments, often taking minority stakes and co-investing across the digital health ecosystem, including solutions, software-as-a-service, services, and marketplaces. Its portfolio focuses on addressing healthcare challenges such as workforce shortages, rising costs, and chronic disease management through human-centered, technology-enabled approaches, with a global network and industry expertise to support startups. By backing companies spanning mental health, medical imaging, AI-enabled compliance, medication management, and personalized nutrition, Healthy.Capital aims to create scalable impact and societal cost savings while enabling sustainable growth for portfolio companies.

Partners in Equity is a European private impact investment firm founded in 2003 and based in Amsterdam. It provides equity and strategic support to later-stage growth companies and funds that address environmental and social challenges, with a focus on sustainable agriculture and food systems, circular economy, and climate solutions. The firm targets investments in the EU and US and seeks long-term partnerships, often with a minimum ticket around EUR 5 million. Described as family-owned, it aims to deliver financial returns alongside measurable environmental and social impact, evaluating opportunities through environmental, social, and economic lenses.

Fortino Capital Partners is a Belgium-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2013 that provides growth capital and hands-on operational support to technology companies in Western Europe, with a focus on B2B software, SaaS, AI, IT services, and related TMT opportunities. The firm targets mid-market businesses, offering expansion capital and strategic guidance to accelerate growth, scale go-to-market capabilities, and pursue M&A opportunities. Its investments span the Benelux and broader Europe, including France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, with selective cross-border and US expansion where applicable. Fortino emphasizes a practical, results-oriented approach and partners with portfolio companies to mature, scale, and build sustainable growth.

SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based European venture capital firm founded in 2007 that focuses on energy technology and digital solutions for the energy transition. It invests in startups across Europe at early to growth stages, with emphasis on smart energy generation, distribution and storage, energy use, and related ICT and enabling technologies. The firm backs companies delivering scalable business models around intelligent software and hardware for energy efficiency, smart buildings, microgrids, electric mobility, and industrial processes, aiming to accelerate the shift to a carbon-free energy system. SET Ventures typically takes board seats to support portfolio companies through growth, drawing on its experience across multiple funds and exits to help scale.

Brightlands Venture Partners is an independent regional venture capital fund manager based in Geleen, Netherlands. It functions as an ecosystem investor, backing science-driven startups addressing societal challenges in health, agrifood, and renewable chemistry, from seed to Series A. The firm manages four funds—BVP Fund IV, Brightlands Agrifood Fund, Chemelot Ventures, and Limburg Ventures—with about €120 million of committed capital and a portfolio of roughly 50 companies across a six-region EU/US footprint. Portfolio companies benefit from linkages to the Brightlands campuses, active, long-term partnerships, and access to public funding where possible. The team combines scientists, operators, and investors to help founders validate, scale, and translate deep science into impact, aiming to accelerate growth and societal benefit through an impact-oriented investment approach.

ASIF Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam that focuses on funding and supporting student and recent graduate founders in the Amsterdam metropolitan region. Founded in 2017 by students, it provides early-stage financial backing and goes beyond capital by connecting founders with resources, networks, and guidance to help launch and grow ventures. The firm emphasizes building a launchpad for young entrepreneurs and supports a community of innovators through hands-on involvement, aiming to accelerate the development of startups founded by university students and recent graduates from local universities.

Finch Capital is a European venture and growth equity firm that invests in fintech and related technology companies across Europe and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2013 and based in Amsterdam with offices in London and Jakarta, it backs seed to growth-stage ventures spanning fintech, insurtech, regtech, AI, data analytics, software as a service, payments, banking and wealth management. The firm combines capital with hands-on support, providing go-to-market, hiring, performance management, M&A and exit planning guidance, and often takes board seats to help portfolio companies scale. It pursues patient, long-term value creation and has facilitated exits within its ecosystem, including a portfolio company exit to TrueLayer.

Shamrock Ventures is an Amsterdam-based Dutch venture capital firm that funds early-stage technology companies with an impact-driven mission. It targets startups solving environmental and social challenges, typically supporting pre-seed rounds around EUR 100,000 to EUR 250,000, and provides mentorship and hands-on assistance to help portfolio companies build sustainable, scalable businesses with long-term economic viability and positive societal impact.

Delft Enterprises is a company affiliated with Delft University of Technology that accelerates science-based startups arising from the university's research. It supports entrepreneurial TU Delft employees from invention to startup by providing funding through various instruments, expert advice, and access to a broad network of investors, with a focus on early-stage, technology-based ventures. The areas of emphasis include Energy and Resources, Health, High Tech Systems, and Software, and the firm aims to translate scientific breakthroughs into economic and social value. It emphasizes transparency in intellectual property transfer and tracks successful exits from its portfolio.

4impact is a venture capital firm based in The Hague, Netherlands, founded in 2017. It invests in European digital technology companies that deliver environmental, economic inclusion, and health and well-being impact while pursuing attractive financial returns. The firm targets tech-driven ventures across sustainability and social impact segments, prioritizing Europe. 4impact adds value through hands-on support, sharing expertise and networks to help portfolio companies scale. By backing ventures that aim for both impact and profit, 4impact seeks to accelerate the adoption of digital solutions that address societal challenges and foster sustainable growth.

Connected Capital is a European growth-equity investor focused on B2B software and SaaS. Based in Amsterdam, the firm partners with high-growth entrepreneurs to scale established, profitable companies with proven product-market fit and differentiated technology. It provides strategic capital and hands-on guidance to refine strategy, overcome operational hurdles, and accelerate growth, leveraging a team with experience in strategy consulting, M&A, private equity, and law and deep software know-how. The firm concentrates on Europe-based B2B software opportunities, offering support across growth stages to help portfolio companies expand and pursue consolidation in the software sector.

Shoe Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, that pursues direct investments and fund of funds opportunities. It concentrates on growth capital, backing fast-growing, scalable companies with meaningful ownership and an active, hands-on approach across finance, control and M&A, and sales and marketing to help portfolio companies accelerate growth. The firm operates with an evergreen philosophy and long-term ownership, avoiding exit pressure and supporting portfolio companies for extended periods. Its activity spans Dutch scale-ups and international funds, with a portfolio that includes IXXi, Equalture, Growth Mama's maaltijden and Duurzaam Loop, reflecting a focus on social impact and sustainability alongside growth. Shoe Investments seeks substantial minority or majority stakes and emphasizes value creation through strategic guidance, operational support and disciplined capital management. The firm positions itself as a partner to entrepreneurs seeking rapid, sustainable expansion rather than short-term exits.

NewPort Capital is an independent Dutch private equity and venture capital firm based in Amsterdam that focuses on mid-market Dutch companies with growth potential. It actively invests in both B2B and B2C sectors, including software, data and technology, financial and business services, manufacturing, and the packaging and foods industries. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to realize accelerated growth by providing capital, expertise, and access to a broad network of successful business leaders. ESG factors are integrated into its investment process and portfolio management. NewPort Capital targets established companies typically generating EBITDA of €2–€10 million and supports management in expanding market reach, improving operations, and executing growth initiatives.

DSM Venturing is the corporate venture capital arm of Royal DSM, established in 2001 and headquartered in Heerlen, Netherlands. The firm focuses on investing in start-up companies that develop innovative products and services within the life sciences sector, which encompasses both animal and human health and nutrition. Over the years, DSM Venturing has invested in more than fifty emerging companies across the United States, Europe, and Israel. Its primary objective is to generate strategic options and enhance value for DSM and its broader ecosystem while achieving sustainable venture-grade investment returns.

Prime Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, with offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Founded in 1999, it focuses on early-stage and growth technology investments across Europe. Its portfolio spans software, information technology, consumer internet, e-commerce, digital media, fintech, semiconductor, and related tech sectors. The firm typically leads rounds, prefers minority stakes, and often takes a board seat to help portfolio companies scale. Initial investments typically range from €5 million to €15 million, with follow-on rounds of €10 million to €25 million. It leverages capital, experience, and a broad European network to guide companies toward global category leadership. Prime Ventures manages over €700 million in committed capital and has a strong presence in Benelux, the United Kingdom, France, the Nordic countries, and other European markets.

ENERGIIQ is a venture capital initiative in Zuid-Holland that finances the commercialization of proven energy technologies to accelerate the regional energy transition. It targets small and medium-sized enterprises with energy innovations that reduce CO2 and have a main office, R&D, or production location in Zuid-Holland. It offers tailored financial instruments, including equity and loans, to support the scaling of these technologies. Investment sizes range from €200,000 to €4.3 million, designed to combine public support with private investment. Backed by the Province of Zuid-Holland and InnovationQuarter, ENERGIIQ leverages a broad network of co-investors and knowledge partners to help portfolio companies accelerate deployment and CO2 reductions in the region.

Health Innovations is a venture capital firm based in Utrecht, Netherlands, that invests in health innovation companies spanning digital health, health technology, health services, health prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. It backs ventures at seed and growth stages, aiming to create value for the healthcare sector, entrepreneurs and shareholders, and it takes an active role as a shareholder by applying its knowledge, experience and network to support portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes market-driven solutions to improve affordability and access to healthcare and, as of 2023, concentrates on supporting its existing portfolio rather than seeking new investments.

Future Tech Ventures is an early-stage technology investor based in Groningen, Netherlands, founded in 2024. It backs high-tech startups in the Northern Netherlands, with focus areas including CleanTech, HealthTech, DigitalTech, and HighTech. The firm emphasizes ventures originating in Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe and aims to transform proof-of-concepts into scalable businesses by providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to an expert network and follow-on investors. Investments are structured as convertible loans ranging from fifty thousand to three hundred fifty thousand euros, with a target to deploy about twenty million euros across fifty startups between 2024 and 2029. The approach is pragmatic and results-oriented, prioritizing teams, TRL3-6 technology, and global impact potential. The firm seeks to help establish a leading Northern Netherlands tech hub through hands-on support and connectivity to capital and ecosystem partners.

Walvis is a Dutch venture capital firm based in Amsterdam with an additional office in Utrecht that invests in Netherlands-based technology businesses. It focuses on seed and early-stage opportunities and on Dutch Internet technology companies with global ambitions, particularly those with B2B models, and operates across sectors including e-commerce, software, fintech, adtech, internet, smart mobility, proptech and travel tech. Typical investments are in the €1.5–5 million range for early growth rounds. Walvis is active in the Dutch tech ecosystem and has completed a number of investments in this space.

Carduso Capital is a venture capital firm based in Groningen, Netherlands, that invests in technology-driven companies, with a focus on life sciences, energy, and sustainable society sectors. Leveraging a science-driven approach, it supports portfolio companies through active management involvement and an extensive network to advance commercialization of research and translate scientific advances into viable businesses. The firm emerged from initiatives by the University of Groningen and UMCG, reflecting a collaboration to back ventures arising from its research programs. Carduso Capital targets early-stage and growth opportunities where scientific innovation can be transformed into market-ready solutions.

HV Capital is a venture capital firm based in Munich, Germany, with offices in Berlin, investing in digital technology startups across Europe at all stages from seed to growth. It backs companies in software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports founders with capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network throughout multiple funding rounds.

Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.

Vitulum Ventures is a venture firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that invests its own capital and emphasizes active involvement through mentoring shareholders. The team comprises six partners with more than 70 years of experience across technical, sales, and finance roles, and focuses on helping startups move from an initial version to a business model that proves traction. The firm targets information technology and mobile startups.

Ponooc is the corporate investment arm of Pon Holdings, focused on sustainable energy and mobility ventures in Europe. It makes equity investments across startup to growth stages, typically between €1 million and €10 million, seeking meaningful stakes while providing hands-on support drawn from Pon Holdings’ network. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam with an additional office in Leusden, it has historically invested in generation, distribution, storage, and mobility solutions. Some sources indicate the fund is no longer active.

Division Q is a venture capital firm based in Monster, Netherlands, founded in 2022, focused on sustainable startups advancing zero-emission greenhouse horticulture. It collaborates with partners to develop technical innovations that increase sustainability in the greenhouse sector. The company positions itself as a gateway to greenhouse horticulture, offering targeted programs for startups and project support for growers to accelerate sustainability from challenge to working solutions. Its activities are organized into six work packages—Energy Lab, Packaging Lab, Data Lab, Mechanics Lab, Water Lab, and Eco Lab—to address sector challenges and test, build, and measure impact. Through capabilities such as Hortizon, Unboxing Data Lab, PATS Mechanics Lab, and other initiatives, Division Q translates innovations into deployed solutions in glasshouses and validates them through experiments, development, and project guidance within a broad network to ensure real-world impact.

KBC Securities is a Brussels-based securities and brokerage firm that provides corporate finance and financing advisory services. Founded in 1991, it offers advisory and execution in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, syndication, equity market making, loans and debt markets, project finance, export finance, leveraged finance, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, bonds, private placements, and fairness options. The firm serves European equities, with a focus on biotechnology, information and communication technology, and research sectors.

Two Hop Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2018. It focuses on startups providing infrastructure for the next generation secure internet and invests in B2B, B2C, finance and technology sectors.