Catalyst of sustainable and social progress

Investing today, for our future well-being

StartGreen is one of the largest impact fund managers in the Netherlands. Since 2006, together with impact entrepreneurs and investors, we have been building a climate-neutral, fossil-free and circular society, less dependent on energy and raw materials from abroad and in which everyone can participate to their full potential.

StartGreen at a glance

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StartGreen's Impact Domains

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We believe in sustainable energy

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We believe in equality and equal opportunities

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We believe in a circular and local economy

Our funds

StartGreen finances impact businesses and energy projects with both loans and risk capital. We do this through various funds:

Thirona is developing AI technology for automated analysis of medical scans.

Measuring autonomous emitters or receivers.

Atlantic Therapeutics aims to improve the quality of life for people through medical devices, by restoring and strengthening their pelvic health.

Our cutting-edge medical electrospinning research and development equipment, MediSpin® XL platform and application development services enable our customers to realise their superior fibre-based medical devices.

The Fabricant is the world's leading digital fashion house and a pioneer in the digitisation of the fashion industry.

RE:BORN Walden aims to make emotional, environmental and economic impact by tackling obsolete properties and transforming them into function-free buildings.

Weerribben Dairy is the market leader in the dairy shelf of organic specialty shops. It is one of the few farms that produce dairy in an artisanal way on the farm.

With every phone they make, Fairphone gets closer to its goal of making the electronics industry fairer and more sustainable.

ChainCraft develops mixed culture fermentation technologies to produce sustainable biobased chemicals

MUD Jeans produces sustainable jeans with 40 per cent recycled cotton.

S4 Energy is developing a new type of energy storage via a combination of batteries and a flywheel, which absorbs fluctuations on the energy grid.

Rc Panels makes insulating facades via a prefabricated construction method, which makes existing houses more sustainable in one go.

BTG-BTL produces oil from biomass (wood chips) by pyrolysis and markets this technology worldwide. The plant is located in Hengelo.

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Thirona provides advanced artificial intelligence-based lung analysis to MedTech, pharmaceutical and CRO companies worldwide.

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Dexter offers AI-based forecasting-as-a-service to reduce imbalance on the power grid. This allows power companies to save 35 per cent on imbalance costs.

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Bomhofdplas is one of the largest floating solar parks in Europe. It supplies 7,200 Zwolle households with green electricity.

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NextKidney has developed a portable artificial kidney. This device allows kidney patients to perform haemodialysis themselves; wherever they want, whenever it is most convenient for them.

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Innovative expertise

Our experienced team of experts is often the first to identify themes in the market that require financing. Together with our investors we develop innovative new funds and financing options. To promote impact outside StartGreen, our experts are happy to share their knowledge, including through blogs:

  • Citizens keen to be part of energy transition

    Expertblog - 22 August 2024 Wind farms are playing a crucial role in the energy transition. Crowd financing platform Invesdor, which was founded in 2012 by StartGreen as Oneplanetcrowd, has already raised two [...] this year.

  • With more manure digesters, we can meet green gas targets

    Expertblog - 27 June 2024 There is a lot of interest in manure fermentation. Logical, because livestock farmers can use their manure to produce green gas ánd earn nice money from it. In [...]

  • Pension funds, pay attention to your constituents

    Expertblog - 18 April 2024 The gender investment gap is as yawning as it was a decade ago. Simone Brummelhuis, partner and fund director of Borski Fund, believes pension funds and government [...]

Impact news

With our experience, market knowledge, track record and network, we guide impact companies during their growth. Through the latest news - on our website, LinkedIn page and our newsletter - keep you informed about our funds and the impact we are making with them:

  • Ons Impact Report van 2024 is er!

    Met veel trots presenteren wij het Impact Report van 2024. Een terugblik op een jaar waarin we samen met ondernemers, fondsinvesteerders en partners opnieuw grote stappen hebben gezet richting iets [...]

  • Why the EIB partners with Energiefonds Overijssel: “This public-private partnership is efficient, effective and quite unique in Europe.”

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the climate bank of the EU. It is one of the largest providers of finance for climate action in the world. Theda Fuchs is [...]

  • Door elektriciteit op te slaan voor later gebruik, verminder je piekbelasting en congestie.

    Opslag is een belangrijke schakel in de energietransitie. Want hoe meer groene stroom we in Nederland opwekken en hoe meer we overstappen op elektrisch, hoe belangrijker het wordt om vraag [...]