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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Energy startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rockstart | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
InnoEnergy | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
SET Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
DOEN Participaties | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
Ponooc | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Energy Early Stage Venture investors in The Netherlands. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Energy Investors & Funds (The Netherlands)
Rockstart
Rockstart is an early stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood and Emerging Technologies. Rockstart invests in early-stage startups and provides access to capital, market, and expertise by connecting founders with co-investors, mentors, partners, and the wider Rockstart network. Rockstart has invested in more than 260 startups and its alumni value to date is more than $1bn. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to empowering purpose-driven founders to become scalable and drive positive change on a global scale. Rockstart has notable exits such as Wercker, Bouw7, iClinic, and in 2021, 3D Hubs and Brincr. The company has offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Copenhagen, Denmark and Bogota, Colombia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Clean Energy, Food Processing, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
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InnoEnergy
Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Clean Energy, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management, Energy Storage, Impact Investing, Power Grid, Smart Building, Smart Cities, Smart Home
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SET Ventures
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Energy, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DOEN Participaties
As the impact investment arm of the DOEN Foundation, DOEN Participaties invests in innovative, early stage companies whose mission is to make an environmental and social impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Non Profit, Renewable Energy, Social
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Ponooc
Ponooc is a venture capital fund based in the Netherlands with a focus on sustainable energy or mobility related ventures. We are open to both early and later stage venture deals where the invested capital is used to help the entrepreneurs and their team take the next step. We believe in a hands-on approach and work closely together with management where we think we can add value, either through previous experience or our extensive network. Our geographical focus is Europe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Energy, Logistics, Transportation, Venture Capital
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StartGreen Capital
StartGreen Capital is a specialized early stage investor and manages c. 350 mln EUR, being one of the largest specialized fund managers in the Dutch clean tech segment. StartGreen Capital aspires to realize sustainable solutions to societal challenges. StartGreen Capital invests in entrepreneurs who aim to take their innovative and sustainable technologies, products or services to the next level. In its vision, profitable returns are essential to achieve sustainability. The continuity of a company can only be guaranteed by generating profit. StartGreen Capital offers flexible financial products from our various funds, the crowdfunding platform or our broad network. The input of StartGreen Capital is beyond the mere provision of risk capital. Our strength is a combination of market knowledge, network, entrepreneurial advice and investment experience. In this manner, StartGreen Capital remains proactively involved after the transaction as a partner in collaboration with the entrepreneur to guarantee the success of the enterprise.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Crowdfunding, Impact Investing, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Navus Ventures
Navus Ventures B.V. (“Navus”) is a venture capital firm aimed at high-tech and sustainable start-ups and scale-ups, part of a family office and linked to Lely (farming innovators). Founded in 2013, Navus has invested across a range of sectors and is now primarily focused on the ongoing transitions in food and energy. As a family funded VC, Navus is not subject to entry or exit pressure, invests both in typical VC setup as well as for longer holding periods and has simple governance allowing for quick decisions. Navus draws from the knowledge and network of the Lely family business, with a longstanding history in high-tech product development and successful market entry of innovations (but is not linked to the Lely business strategy). Our approach is hands-on and pragmatic, as an independent fund we can respond well to changing situations and act quickly and we support our portfolio as active shareholders with short communication lines to support management on strategic and operational matters. We value transparency and honesty in our relationship with start-ups and fellow investors.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Energy, Food and Beverage, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Eneco group
Eneco Group is a group of companies that is active in the energy sector. They work together and with customers and partners on their “Everyone’s sustainable energy” mission, so people can take control of their own energy. Thanks to their consistent strategy, they lead the way in the field of sustainability and innovation. They offer added value to consumers and businesses nationally and internationally with their smart products and services. And they make a valuable contribution to society by generating and supplying green energy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Biomass Energy, Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Energy
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PVS Investments
We invest in climate tech start-ups. Not just money, but also practical advice and assistance, for example to get a solid business plan in preparation of the next funding round.
We have done this for startups with innovative clean energy production solutions (Oceans of Energy, Renaissance Fusion), battery technologies (LeydenJar, Eexion, Delft IMP), e-mobility (Tiler), green chemicals (H2Pro) and precision fermentation (Brevel).
Each of these has the potential to disrupt their industry when scaled up.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Climate tech, Clean energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management, Energy Storage
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