# Innovation Industries

> Innovation Industries is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Manufacturing. See 80 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 80
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 51%
- Fund size: $204M
- Last fund: Feb 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovationindustries/
- Website: http://www.innovationindustries.com/

Innovation Industries is a venture capital firm that invests in hightech, medtech and agri-foodtech companies in The NetherlandsInnovation Industries maintains a hands-on management style, sharing its experience, knowledge and connections with the entrepreneurs. Portfolio companies are actively supported in order to strengthen the valueproposition, improve the time-to- market, identify and realize global strategic partnerships and avoid the typical start-up pitfalls. Innovation Industries sees itself as a partner of the entrepreneurs and the other parties involved; a creator of ventures, rather than merely a financial investor.Innovation Industries focuses primarily on start-ups but will also be able to invest into scale-ups. With this relatively broad spectrum of funding capabilities, emerging breakthroughs in research and technology can be sustained by sufficient venture capital to optimize their chances of success and ultimately provide returns to the Fund’s investors. Once these companies are established with seed funding, the Fund will be able to continue financing the advancement of these businesses and technologies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $552k–$9.5M |
| Series A | $11M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 8 | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 8% |
| Electronics | 5 | 6% |
| Health Care | 5 | 6% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 6% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 13 | 16% |
| Seed | 11 | 14% |
| Series A | 10 | 13% |
| Series B | 10 | 13% |
| Series C | 8 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 29 | 36% |
| Belgium | 3 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Sonnenberg | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sonnenberg |
| Harm de Vries | Co-founder and General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harm-de-vries |
| Nard Sintenie | General Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nard-sintenie |
| Tom Schwarz | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-schwarz |
| Tom van Vuren | Investment Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-van-vuren-vuren |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nearfield Instruments | Nearfield Instruments develops and markets High-Throughput Scanning Probe Metrology systems for advanced integrated circuits manufacturing process control. | $380M | Series D | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Eyeo | Eyeo is fundamentally redefining image sensing by eliminating decades-old limitations, Capturing all incoming light and drastically improving resolution. | $47M | Series A | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Groove Quantum | Groove Quantum is a company that develops germanium-based quantum computing technology. | $11.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Smart Robotics | Smart Robotics, the agency for robots, delivers flexible robotic solutions. Their customers are primarily found in the manufacturing industry and in intralogistics processes. They do this both in the national and international market. With their intelligent robotic solutions they make it easier to automate and enable entrepreneurs they are able tokeep production local. They strive to maintain employment in the chain. Their strength lies in new technologies, cooperation and flexibility. They offer an innovative business model, which they are the agency for robots. The intelligence of their product is in the software, and is independent robot. They make use of existing industrial hardware, such as robot arms, cameras and sensors. The High Tech Campus Eindhoven is their ideal starting point, here they are therefore established. Within Eindhoven have close ties with Eindhoven University of Technology and nationally with a number of partners in the field of hardware and service. | $11.8M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Axelera AI | Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies. | $250M | Series C | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Axelera AI | Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies. | $250M | Series C | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Orbem | Orbem is shedding light on the world's toughest challenges by unleashing AI-powered imaging for everything and everyone. This means developing fast, accurate, and accessible imaging solutions that provide access to otherwise unattainable sources of knowledge.Orbem is developing deep tech solutions to sustainably feed the world, improve humanhealth, and maximize human potential.Based on years of scientific research at the interface of AI and imaging technology, Orbem was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich. | $64.6M | Series B | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| ViCentra | ViCentra, they like to keep things simple.ViCentra believe that if products are simple, look beautiful and deliver superb results, they’ll be more enjoyable to use and more likely to help people achieve great things.Creating brilliant products doesn’t end at the manufacturing line though – they also believe in the power of great customerexperiences.From our offices in the Netherlands and UK, they’re creating healthcare products with this philosophy firmly in mind. They don’t design for patients – they design for people. | $13M | Series D | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| SandGrain | SandGrain specializes in the fields of SAAS, cloud, cyber security, and chip manufacturing. Their team fully combines the competencies in the key technical areas and pares that with many years of experience in the semiconductor business, including the startup of new technologies and organizations. | $15.7M | Series A | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| ViCentra | ViCentra, they like to keep things simple.ViCentra believe that if products are simple, look beautiful and deliver superb results, they’ll be more enjoyable to use and more likely to help people achieve great things.Creating brilliant products doesn’t end at the manufacturing line though – they also believe in the power of great customerexperiences.From our offices in the Netherlands and UK, they’re creating healthcare products with this philosophy firmly in mind. They don’t design for patients – they design for people. | $85M | Series D | Sep 03, 2025 |  |

10 of 80 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Invest-NL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-nl) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [BOM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brabantse-ontwikkelings-maatschappij-bom) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [imec.xpand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imec-xpand) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [KBC Focus Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbc-start-it-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [European Innovation Council Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-innovation-council-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Innovation Industries invest in?

Innovation Industries invests primarily in Semiconductor, Manufacturing and Electronics startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 80 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Innovation Industries's check size?

Innovation Industries typically joins rounds of $552k–$9.5M at Seed and $11M–$33M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Innovation Industries participates in.

### How do I contact Innovation Industries?

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### Who are the partners at Innovation Industries?

The team at Innovation Industries includes Chris Sonnenberg (General Partner), Harm de Vries (Co-founder and General Partner) and Nard Sintenie (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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