"The future of energy trading"

Michiel Lensink, Jorrit Nijholt, Diederick Joosten

An independent and transparent trade platform for short-term electricity trades

Etpa is transforming the energy landscape by enabling power market participants to optimise their energy portfolios through short-term trades, making energy trading more responsive and resilient.

Year invested

2024

SDGs

“Reducing energy used for cooling data centers”

Jasper de Vries, Rene Gompel

Artificial Intelligence software for data center infrastructure

Coolgradient makes data centers intelligent by converting existing data into actionable recommendations, reducing energy use by up to 40% by capturing interdependencies between mechanical and electrical infrastructure in data center cooling infrastructure.

Year invested

2024

SDGs

"Integrating flexible capacity into our energy grids"

Jacob van Zonneveld, Marc Diks, Remco Tjeerdsma

Creating leading mobility service providers

Deftpower’s solution allows available untapped energy storage capacity in EVs to be captured with its seamless charging platform. This capacity is converted into economic and ecological value by integrating it into the energy grid

Year invested

2023

SDGs

"Turning buildings green while reducing costs and emissions"

Anders Kallebo, Johan Brunius

Energy optimisation in buildings using AI

Myrspoven optimises HVAC systems in real time, lowering the energy use and ensures buildings consume energy at optimal times.

Year invested

2023

SDGs

“Towards sustainable zero-waste manufacturing”

Suhas Patel, Rahul Prajapat

Industrial Artificial Intelligence SaaS

Tvarit’s pioneering hybrid AI solution cuts through the complexity of metals manufacturing to minimize scrap and energy consumption of this critical industry.

Year invested

2023

SDGs

"Sustainable water and sanitation for everyone"

Johnny Alexander Gunneng, Pedja Bihor, Magne Eide, Marco Westergren

Real-time software-as-a-service for digital water & wastewater management

InfoTiles’ innovative digital analytics platform spans the water value chain, simplifying and automating the tedious steps of consolidating data and applying real-time analytics and machine learning for water management.

Year invested

2023

SDGs

"Mitigating the climate crisis by removing CO2 from the atmosphere"

Hannes Junginger, Matthias Ansorge

End-to-end carbon removal platform

Carbonfuture enables high-quality carbon removal at scale using its unique digital monitoring, reporting and verification platform.

Year invested

2022

SDGs

"Creating an equal playing field on the employment market"

Maarten Westerduin, Geert-Jan Waasdorp

Skilled-based matching

SkillsCV targets vocational and/or unemployed job seekers, identifying their skills in a more inclusive way of filling job vacancies to create a more equal playing field and a better and healthier employment market.

Year invested

2022

SDGs

"Empowering consumers to make greener choices"

Navodit Babel, Akhil Sivanandan

Measuring and communicating impact

Supporting fashion brands to measure and share with their customers their environmental and social impact, enabling brands to become more sustainable.

Year invested

2022

SDGs

"Placing employee well-being at the heart of success"

Lucy Howie, Arosha Brouwer

Quan revolutionizes employee well-being through science-backed monitoring and engagement at company, team and individual level.

Year invested

2022

SDGs

"Traceable, transparent, and circular supply chains"

Jordi de Vos, Mesbah Sabur

Tracing materials from source to product

Circularise facilitates a shift to a circular economy by digitising and tracing materials across complex supply chains on decentralised blockchain.

Year invested

2021

SDGs

"Making second-hand designer fashion first choice"

Lieke Pijpers, Thalita van Ogtrop

Sell and purchase pre-owned designer fashion

The Next Closet has built a circular economy around fashion, making it easier for customers to sell their closets and purchase pre-owned designer fashion items in a more sustainable way at accessible prices.

Year invested

2021

SDGs

"Democratising alternative climate investing"

Jacqueline Van Den Ende, Lara Koole, Jeff Gomez, Tim Molendijk, Liza Rubinstein Malamud

Low minimums, high impact investing made easy

Carbon Equity democratises climate-related investments by enabling small ticket investments to access a larger investor base, funneling more private capital toward climate action.

Year invested

2021

SDGs

"Leading the fashion industry to digital-only clothing"

Amber Slooten, Kerry Murphy, Adriana Hoppenbrouwer

Digital fashion house for the Metaverse

The Fabricant services world-class fashion brands creating digital garments. Brands achieve cost savings, higher consumer engagement and a more sustainable supply chain.

Year invested

2021

SDGs

"Towards zero deforestation"

Arjen Vrielink, Niels Wielaard

Real-time monitoring of deforestation, carbon stock, and other risk factors.

Satelligence enables sustainable production by combining AI technology with satellite imagery to monitor global supply chains for blue chip global companies and combat deforestation.

Year invested

2020

SDGs

"Shaping the world of unbiased hiring"

Charlotte Melkert, Fleur Melkert

Objective hiring through neuroscience

Equalture helps build diverse and successful teams through objective and predictive hiring technology.

Year invested

2020

SDGs

"Making solar energy the world's leading power supply"

Jan Pieter Versluijs, Tino de Bruijn

The all-in-one software for solar panel installers

Solar Monkey delivers software that increases the efficiency of designing, installing and monitoring solar systems.

Year invested

2019

SDGs

"See what you can't"

Karthik Mahadevan, Karthik Kannan

Hear what you want to see

Envision speaks out the visual world for the blind and low-vision users. Its AI-driven software solution translates visual info to audio via a mobile app and smart glasses.

Year invested

2019

SDGs