Navus Ventures
VC Fund
Maassluis, The Netherlands
Navus Ventures is a VC fund in Maassluis focused on Information Technology and Agriculture. 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, Navusis 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.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Navus Ventures invests in
Stages Navus Ventures invests in
Countries Navus Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.9M–$6M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 7 (20%)
- Agriculture 5 (14%)
- Manufacturing 5 (14%)
- Biotechnology 4 (11%)
- AgTech 3 (9%)
Stage
- Funding Round 15 (43%)
- Seed 8 (23%)
- Series A 6 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (6%)
Country
- The Netherlands 18 (51%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Denmark 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Eduard Meijer
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 7 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Cosaic
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Cultivated Biosciences is a Food Production Company. | $6M / Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | |
Gardin
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Gardin develops optical phenotyping technology and analytics to optimise food production. | $4.5M / Seed / May 07, 2025 | |
Agurotech
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Agurotech develops soil sensing technology. They offer products that include robust and highly reliable sensing technology, tailored irrigation recommendations, and continuous improvement of the irrigation process. | $2.3M / Jan 28, 2025 | |
FarmDroid
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FarmDroid FD20 is a fully automatic, solar powered field robot that automates your seeding and plant protection. By using high precision RTK, with an accuracy of 8mm it marks the placement of the crops at seeding and subsequently performs mechanical weed control both between the rows and inside the rows. In addition, for conventional farmers, itcan also microspray and reduce the use of plant protection substances up to 94%. The unique precision at seeding makes it possible to clean the crop up close and thereby minimize, or completely eliminate, the need for manual weed control. The four solar panels on top of the robot produce power for a battery package and ensure up to 24 hours daily CO2-neutral operation. Thereby, you avoid external charging of the batteries and you can let your FarmDroid FD20 work in the field throughout the entire season. | $11.6M / Oct 22, 2024 | |
Blue Radix
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Blue Radix is a specialist in autonomous growing and creates automated intelligence for daily decisions and actions in greenhouses. | $5.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 07, 2024 | |
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Cosaic
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Cultivated Biosciences is a Food Production Company. | $5M / Seed / Mar 06, 2024 | |
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Blue Radix
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Blue Radix is a specialist in autonomous growing and creates automated intelligence for daily decisions and actions in greenhouses. | Series A / May 23, 2023 | |
Lgem
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Lgem offers a high-end algae-driven selection of fully integrated growing systems and components. Lgem provides vertical demand and supply columns for PBR systems' optimized autotrophic algae growing. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 14, 2023 | |
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Agurotech
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Agurotech develops soil sensing technology. They offer products that include robust and highly reliable sensing technology, tailored irrigation recommendations, and continuous improvement of the irrigation process. | $1.6M / Series A / Feb 07, 2023 | |
Saia Agrobotics
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Saia has the revolution of robotics to agriculture, to relieve the human labour & to provide a solution for food security. | Seed / Dec 19, 2022 | |
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Navus Ventures invest in?
Navus Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Agriculture and Manufacturing startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 35 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 Navus Ventures's check size?
Navus Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$6M at Seed and $1.6M–$13M 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 Navus Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Navus Ventures?
The team at Navus Ventures includes Eduard Meijer (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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