# Netherlands Enterprise Agency

> Netherlands Enterprise Agency is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Assen, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rijksdienstvoorondernemendnederland
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rvo_nederland
- Website: http://rvo.nl
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rijksdienstvoorondernemendnederland

Netherlands Enterprise Agency is a VC fund in Assen focused on Health Care and Manufacturing. Netherlands Enterprise Agency encourages entrepreneurs in sustainable, agrarian, innovative, and international businesses. It helps with grants, finding business partners, know-how, and compliance with laws and regulations.The agency works at the instigation of ministries and the European Union. It works in The Netherlands and abroad withgovernments, knowledge centers, international organizations, and other partners. It is a part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.The programs and initiatives run by RVO.nl include Develop2Build (D2B), Development Related Infrastructure Investment Vehicle (DRIVE), Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF), Dutch Risk Reduction Team (DRR-Team), Dutch Surge Support (DSS water), Energising Development Partnership Programme (EnDev), Facility for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security (FDOV), GAVE, and more.RVO.nl was formed in 2014 as a result of the merger between NL Agency and the Dienst Regelingen. The agency is headquartered in Assen, Netherlands with presence in The Hague, Deventer, Roermond, Utrecht, and Zwolle.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 11 | 16% |
| Manufacturing | 9 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 8 | 12% |
| Medical Device | 7 | 10% |
| Energy | 6 | 9% |

102 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 23 | 34% |
| Debt Financing | 17 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 9% |
| Seed | 4 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 49 | 73% |
| Kenya | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Uganda | 1 | 1% |
| Finland | 1 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nanke Hofstra | Expert housing and care - public housing perspective | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nanke-hofstra-1287 |
| Rob van de Velde | Lid Managementpool | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-van-de-velde |
| Tjerk Opmeer | Director International | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tjerk-opmeer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VNYX | The VNYX is an AI-powered robot that has made fashion resale lucrative for the first time ever.Fashion firms can now stop dumping and start making money from their excess, returns, and vintage goods. |  | Grant | May 01, 2026 |  |
| Metafuels | Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets. | $2.2M | Grant | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Carbo Culture | Carbo Culture is a Nordic-American carbon tech startup that removes carbon from the atmosphere. Carbo Culture removes atmospheric carbon and turns it into a functional material called biocarbon through its own patented technology that exposes woody waste to an ultra-high temperature for an instant. But that’s not all. The biocarbon’s benefitsare twofold: 1) the carbon maintains a stable form that keeps out of the atmosphere for up to 1,000 years and 2) it’s a functional material that can be applied to further environmental benefits, such as biomaterials or soil.In other words, Carbo Culture’s biocarbon not only has the power to remove carbon from the atmosphere and help mitigate climate change, but also help adapt to climate change by using the material itself. | $4.1M | Grant | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Moonwatt | Moonwatt solves problems of the energy transition through innovative energy products hardware and software. | $1.4M | Grant | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| ShanX Medtech | ShanX Medtech is a medical diagnostics company that offers rapid in vitro diagnostic and antimicrobial susceptibility testing services. |  | Debt Financing | Jan 07, 2026 |  |
| RWE | RWE has reliably supplied people and companies with electricity for more than 120 years – night and day. Many of us take electricity for granted. As well as the fact that it comes out of our sockets at any time. And we can, because power generators like RWE make sure that it does – with clean, secure and affordable electricity. | $643.9M | Grant | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| Novenda Technologies | Novenda Technologies provides multi-material 3D printing solutions for dental and medical technology applications using material jetting. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| BrainBite | BrainBite is a hyper-personalized ed-tech platform offering learning with 1-on-1 conversational AI tutoring for kids aged 6 and above. | $56.8K | Grant | Jun 01, 2025 |  |
| Khondrion | Khondrion is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing therapies targeting mitochondrial disease. Founded by Professor Jan Smeitink, a world-leader in mitochondrial medicine, the company is advancing its proprietary science through a wholly-owned clinical and preclinical small molecule pipeline of potential medicines. | $5.7M | Grant | May 06, 2025 |  |
| PULSE Sport | PULSE Sport help Athletes & Sports Organisations achieve their maximum potential through comprehensive health & performance monitoring. | $21.6K | Grant | Oct 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [OostNL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oostnl) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Commercial Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro-commercial-finance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Capital Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/africa-enterprise-challenge-fund-aecf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BOM Brabant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bom-brabant-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BOM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brabantse-ontwikkelings-maatschappij-bom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Netherlands Enterprise Agency invest in?

Netherlands Enterprise Agency invests primarily in Health Care, Manufacturing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Grant and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 67 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Netherlands Enterprise Agency?

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### Who are the partners at Netherlands Enterprise Agency?

The team at Netherlands Enterprise Agency includes Nanke Hofstra (Expert housing and care - public housing perspective), Rob van de Velde (Lid Managementpool) and Tjerk Opmeer (Director International). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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