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ANTENNEX, a startup active in the antenna test market, has received additional funding from Borski Fund to boost international growth and innovation. This investment is in line with the mission [...]

27 March 2025 In the Netherlands, an estimated €30 billion funding gap threatens to slow down the energy transition. This 'local funding gap' makes it harder for Dutch projects to get off [...]

13 March 2025 Dutch deep-tech startup Thorizon has raised €20 million to further develop its revolutionary small modular reactor (SMR), the Thorizon One. This new funding [...]

6 March 2025 The ASN Energy & Innovation Fund, in which StartGreen Capital acts as investment advisor, has provided a multi-million dollar loan to Powercrumbs, an innovative company that converts unused biogas into clean [...]

11 February 2025 We are very proud to announce that StartGreen Capital is now an official investment advisor to ASN Impact Investors. We are joining forces to create the next [...]

6 February 2025 On many fronts, the Netherlands is leading the way in the development of hydrogen applications. Proof of this is provided by a world first: the first non-industrial hydrogen-powered heat pump is [...]

31 January 2025 Borski Fund is proud to announce that M&G Investments has invested more than €9 million in the fund. The largest LP investment to date achieves [...]

20 December 2024 Sympower, a leading player in energy flexibility solutions and a portfolio company of PDENH, has further strengthened its position in the Nordics by acquiring FlexTools. This move [...]

19 December 2024 To tackle fluctuations and congestion on the electricity grid in Overijssel, an innovative energy storage system is being built at the floating solar park on Bomhofsplas in Zwolle. [...]

15 November 2024 Sympower, a portfolio company of PDENH, has raised 21.3 million euros to accelerate the energy transition. This leading and independent provider of flexibility services will use the capital [...]

Calendar - November 2024 The calendar below shows which events in the coming month you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds. When Team members from: Which [...]

24 October 2024 That we make real impact with our portfolio companies is confirmed with no fewer than 4 portfolio companies of PDENH in the Benelux Climate Tech100: the list of 100 [...]

22 October 2024 Last week, the Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NAB) organised a seminar on IMM: impact measurement & management. As every year StartGreen produces a comprehensive Impact [...]

17 October 2024 Soft Revolt, portfolio company of Borski Fund, experienced a major milestone last week. The innovative lingerie company received a major US AND European patent for their 3D-knitted bralette. [...]

Agenda - October 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

26 September 2024 This year, two top women from StartGreen are in the Top 50 Women in Sustainable Finance (WIFS): Anouk Blum-den Heijer and Simone Brummelhuis. They take over from [...]

Agenda - September 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

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.

27 June 2024 Crowd financing platform Invesdor has completed another major citizen participation project. After the success of Windpark Fryslân, there was also great interest in Windpark Westermeerwind. Within a period of still [...]

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 [...]

20 June 2024 We are proud to present our latest Impact Report. In it, you can read about the steps we took in 2023 towards a greener, fairer world. For example, [...]

20 June 2024 In 2022, Visa Foundation was looking for a European fund to invest in that could help promote equal access to capital. [...]

11 June 2024 Energiefonds Overijssel, one of the funds managed by StartGreen Capital, this week signed an agreement with deltaWonen for a 7 million loan. With [...]

10 May 2024 Energiefonds Overijssel, one of the funds managed by StartGreen Capital, recently published its annual report. This showed that the fund is well on its way to [...]

Agenda - June 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

16 May 2024 VivArt-X, founded by Dan Jing Wu and Patricia Dankers, provides personalised, regenerative solutions for breast cancer patients on the road to recovery. Recently, this Brabant-based start-up successfully [...]

23 April 2024 Earlier you could read that Sustenso's green gas plant in Alkmaar has been sold to ENGIE. In the same week, it was announced that ENGIE also sold the new [...]

Agenda - May 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

19 April 2024 StartGreen Capital, together with 159 investors, banks, insurers and financial initiatives from 29 countries, signed the Finance Statement on Plastic Pollution. The aim of the [...]

19 April 2024 Sustenso, the innovative company that converts green waste into biogas, is leaving investment fund PDENH with effect from 8 April. That decision follows the sale of the biogas plant in [...]

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 [...]

16 April 2024 Energie Coöperatie Haaksbergen (ECH) can participate in the development of Windpark Oude Buurserdijk with funding from Energiefonds Overijssel. Energiefonds Overijssel supports the development of local [...]

Expertblog - 11 April 2024 Besides co-founder of StartGreen Capital, Laura Rooseboom is co-founder and partner of Borski Fund. This fund improves access to capital for growth companies with [...]

9 April 2024 Energiefonds Overijssel and Mogelijk have set up a special financing fund: the Verduurzamingsfonds Zakelijke Hypotheken Overijssel. Entrepreneurs in Overijssel who want to make their business premises more sustainable can apply to this fund [...]

2 April 2024 From 1 April, the province of North Holland will transfer the management of Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland to ROM InWest in phases. To ensure continuity in fund management [...]

Expertblog - 19 March 2024 Grid congestion is a hot topic, especially in the world of impact investing. On the one hand, we are keen to accelerate the energy transition, on the other [...]

7 March 2024 With a loan from Energiefonds Overijssel, Woonstichting SallandWonen will make around 100 of its homes in Raalte more sustainable. With better insulation, ventilation and sustainable heat generation, [...]

Agenda - March 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

20 February 2024 Developer of marine battery systems EST-Floattech receives €4 million investment from Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam and existing shareholders Rotterdam Port Fund, Ponooc, Yard Energy and PDENH. [...]

15 February 2024 The production of medicines releases 55 per cent more CO2 than that of cars. Moreover, the supply of pharmaceutical raw materials has become uncertain due to [...]

12 February 2024 PDENH and its co-investors Rotterdam Port Fund, Ponooc and Yard Energy Transition Fund have sold their 40 per cent stake in Nordic Booster to Akershus Energi, [...].

13 February 2024 Borski Fund, part of StartGreen Capital, together with Innovation Industries and InnovationQuarter, led a €10 million investment round in Delft-based company CarbonX. The deep [...]

Agenda - February 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the coming month. [...]

1 February 2024 Triple Solar, portfolio company of PDENH and manufacturer of smart PVT heat pump and panels, has joined forces with a German e-home solutions provider. This company supplies solar panels, [...]

23 January 2024 Soft Revolt, a sustainable lingerie brand based in Amsterdam, has secured more than EUR 1 million in funding, with a significant contribution from the Borski Fund. The company [...]

16 January 2024 Energiefonds Overijssel recently issued a 2 million loan to hydrogen producer H2-GO. It is the fund's first hydrogen financing and the first hydrogen project in [...]

5 January 2024 Portfolio company Asperitas, as part of a consortium of seven Dutch companies and research institutions, has received funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate. The consortium [...]

Expertblog - 4 January 2024 Since last June, StartGreen has been managing the SaveGarant Fund. Entrepreneurs looking to make their premises more sustainable can turn to the fund for financing. Noura Hzami, Investment [...]

13 December 2023 Yesterday, 65 leading organisations announced their collaboration within Code-V Accelerates Female Entrepreneurship. This alliance will work to improve the entrepreneurial climate for women. StartGreen [...]

12 December 2023 Broekland-based construction company Tala designs and builds sustainable houses made of wood and other biobased materials. With their modular housing concepts, Tala not only contributes to the [...]

Agenda - January 2024 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at in the month of January. [...]

16 November 2023 Thorizon, an Amsterdam-based start-up that aims to convert nuclear waste into energy, announced today that Laure Claquin will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) from 1 January 2024. Laure [...]

31 October 2023 As a founding partner of European Women in VC, Borski Fund launched the third pan-European report on the venture capital ecosystem from a gender perspective. The report highlights the positive [...]

31 October 2023 Energiefonds Overijssel, one of the funds managed by StartGreen Capital, has issued a €6 million loan to Deventer housing association Rentree. With that [...]

Agenda - November 2023 The agenda below shows which events you can meet team members of StartGreen and its funds at during the month of November. [...]

12 October 2023 The Selection Lab, a Dutch start-up in advanced assessment technology, has raised €1.25m in a recent investment round. Borski Fund led the investment round, which included the current [...]

October 6, 2023 Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH) is looking for a new member for its Investment Committee (IC). This committee consists of three people and one position comes [...]

Expertblog - 2 October 2023 Nuclear energy is often the subject of heated debate. Some see it as an indispensable component in the energy transition, while others see too many objections. [...]

18 September 2023 Who better to judge whether a start-up has potential than entrepreneurs who have successfully brought a company to fruition themselves? Sifted, the news platform for Europe's [...]

Interview - 7 September 2023 In a double interview in Management Scope, our Managing Partner Laura Rooseboom and Edwin de Graaf of Gilde Healthcare talk about their role as investors in companies making the transition to [...]

Interview - 5 September 2023 The energy transition is in full swing, but there is still a lot of work to be done to get our world ready for the climate goals [...]

22 August 2023 In the Impact Report, you can read about the impact we make with our portfolio companies: positive and negative. Recently, Coolset measured StartGreen's own climate impact. [...]

Expertblog - 11 July 2023 StartGreen wants to help build a sustainable economy. That is why our funds invest in three impact areas: the Energy Transition, Diversity and Circularity. 'There is a lot of social attention [...]

Expertblog - 3 July 2023 'Good - far from perfect - but we are working on it and showing progress every year'. That's how Dylan Perales, Sustainability Lead at [...]

22 June 2023 ASN Bank, like StartGreen Capital, promotes sustainable progress. That makes the two parties ideal cooperation partners in project financing. In addition, ASN Bank brings a number of specially selected [...]

Expertblog - 6 June 2023 StartGreen is financing the construction of a large solar park near Almelo. This financing is possible partly because charge point operator Allego is guaranteed [...] for the next ten years.

1 June 2023 Energiefonds Overijssel, one of the funds managed by StartGreen Capital, is (co)financing the construction of a large solar park near Almelo with a loan of 20 million [...]

2 May 2023 Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH) - together with Triodos Sustainable Finance Foundation and Nesec Ship Finance - is financing the construction of a Sea Ranger sailing ship [...]

18 April 2023 Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH) has made a follow-on investment in Dexter Energy, specialist in AI forecasting for balancing and optimising renewable energy. This 'Series B' funding round [...]

30 March 2023 Energiefonds Overijssel, together with Oost NL and Icos Capital, is making a follow-on investment of €1.5 million in PEF Technologies. This company is developing an innovative technology that uses [...]

Expertblog - 17 February 2023 Hydrogen seems to be the magic word in the energy transition. But what exactly can we do with it? What are the opportunities and what are the caveats? Michiel Hickey, [...]

9 February 2023 Aiir Innovations, start-up in artificial intelligence for visual inspection of aircraft engines, has raised €2.1M. In addition to lead investor Borski Fund, HearstLab Europe and existing [...] participated.

8 February 2023 We are proud to present our sixth fund: the StartGreen Transition Fund (SGTF). The SFTG focuses on accelerating the Dutch energy transition through regional energy projects [...]

2 February 2023 Arthur Jongejans has just successfully completed his internship at StartGreen as an Impact Investment Analyst. In this blog, he talks about what he has been doing over the past six months [...]

2 February 2023 Dutch sustainable smartphone company Fairphone has raised €49 million in growth capital. This will allow it to strengthen its brand position and create even more awareness about fairness and sustainability [...]

18 January 2023 On 7 February 2023, StartGreen is organising its first Investors Summit: an exclusive investor relations event. It will be an interesting afternoon on impact investing, with engaging speakers and [...]

17 January 2023 Tuesday 14 February will see the eleventh edition of the Event HIER opgewekt (EHO): the largest national event on local renewable energy in the Netherlands and the [...]

17 January 2023 Triple Solar, portfolio company of Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH), has attracted a major new shareholder: pension fund ABP. In this investment round, the shareholders have combined 10 million [...]

15 December 2022 Simone Brummelhuis, fund director of Borski Fund, has been nominated by Change Inc for the Changemaker Impact Award 2022. [...]

23 November 2022 Oneplanetcrowd, our sustainable finance platform, is joining forces with The Invesdor Group - a leading finance platform in Europe. This will create one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in [...]

1 November 2022 StartGreen funds within three impact domains: circular economy, diversity & inclusiveness and energy transition. Coenraad de Vries, co-founder and Managing Partner of StartGreen is convinced that [...]

21 October 2022 ABN AMRO Bank wants to make the biggest possible impact, helping to create a more sustainable society. Head of Sustainability Richard Kooloos talks about the development that [...]

16 September 2022 Oneplanetcrowd, our platform for sustainable finance, is having a celebratory week. Earlier, it passed the magic 100 million mark. Yesterday, the platform, third in Europe, received the new [...]

13 September 2022 Oneplanetcrowd, our platform for sustainable finance, passed the €100 million mark in capital for sustainable and [...] this week thanks to over 43,000 investors and nearly 300 campaigns.

Expertblog - 8 September 2022 Bertrand van Leersum, Investment Manager at Borski Fund, describes how the Value Creation Model enables StartGreen to assess investment propositions as well as impact entrepreneurs [...]

24 August 2022 Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH), together with Positron Ventures, Invest-NL and Impuls Zeeland, is investing a total of €12.5m in Thorizon, a company that converts nuclear waste into energy. This [...]

30 June 2022 Flo Schepers is a trainee at StartGreen. She has a great affinity for Africa, women entrepreneurs and sustainability, so feels like a fish in [...] at StartGreen.

14 June 2022 The Supervisory Board of Energiefonds Overijssel consists of generalists with specific qualities, who together form a multidisciplinary team. Currently, the fund is looking for a new member for [...]

31 May 2022 Borski Fund, together with DSM Venturing, Calm/Storm Ventures and a trio of angels, has invested $10 million in inne. With this investment, inne will expand its hormone technology: from [...]

17 May 2022 Our co-founder Laura Rooseboom will be a judge tomorrow for the AtlasInvest Entrepreneurship Grant (AIEG 2022): an incentive grant for Wageningen University students to implement impactful ideas [...]

Expertblog - 12 May 2022 Investment Manager Jakoba van der Mei is an expert on project finance. In this blog, she explains what is involved [...]

15 April 2022 On 22 April, Change Inc's first TransitionArena will take place. The topic is the shift of revenue models: from paying for possession, to paying for use. Or [...]

12 April 2022 Friday 8 April saw the start of the construction of Sustenso's bio-digester in Alkmaar's Boekelermeer. In festive fashion, as the production of sustainable, local [...]

7 March 2022 Wednesday 30 March will see the festive anniversary edition of the Event HIER opgewekt (EHO): the largest national event on local renewable energy in the Netherlands. On that day [...]

Expertblog - 7 March 2022 Radboud Dood is Investment Manager for Energiefonds Overijssel. His expertise is investing in CO2 reduction innovations. In this blog, he explains [...]

7 February 2022 Last Tuesday, the Provincial Council of Overijssel gave its approval to the proposed additional investment of €50 million for Energiefonds Overijssel by the European [...]

28 January 2022 Our co-founder Laura Rooseboom is a judge at the MT/Sprout Startup of the Year election. In an interview on mtsprout.nl, she explains how and why Borski [...]

Expertblog - 18 January 2022 Investment Manager Nienke Rijpstra is constantly looking for new opportunities and solutions in the field of solar energy for Energiefonds Overijssel. In this blog [...]

4 January 2022 Febe van den Bergen completed a 4-month internship at Borski Fund. After completing her Bachelor of Business Administration at Erasmus University, Febe chose to [...]

Expertblog - 15 December 2021 Joost Vlot is Investment Manager for Energiefonds Overijssel. His expertise is property sustainability. In this blog, he describes how he addresses sustainability wishes of property owners [...]

10 December 2021 Impact finance is hot. Our co-founder Laura Rooseboom took a seat on the panel of Brookz & Dealsuite's online Christmas show yesterday. See below what Laura did there [...]

Expertblog - 16 November 2021 StartGreen makes impact with a team of over 40 experts. These are not just specialists in venture capital and impact investing. Maartje Asscheman, for example, [...]

11 November 2021 Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH) is investing in 30MHz: an Amsterdam-based scale-up focused on making horticulture more sustainable. In a second round of investment, it raised 6.5 million [...]

29 October 2021 Coenraad de Vries, co-founder and managing partner of StartGreen and Oneplanetcrowd, has been named Changemaker of the Week in the finance category by Change Inc. Coenraad was [...]

28 October 2021 Simone Brummelhuis, managing director of Borski Fund, has been nominated for Female Business Angel of the Year by Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland. She is the first Dutch person to have a chance [...]

22 October 2021 Change Inc, the platform for sustainable news about change, has nominated Coenraad as Changemaker of the Week in the finance category. Vote for him as your favourite [...]

12 October 2021 Energiefonds Overijssel organised a bike ride last month with the ominous name 'The Hell of Twente'. Investment Associate Eva Post reports. [...]

Expert blog - 22 September 2021 Investment manager Nienke Rijpstra describes in this blog how StartGreen can help both developers and civic initiatives set up a new energy project. [...]

15 September 2021 How do you get money as an innovative sustainable entrepreneur? Rianne Lachmeijer of the platform change.inc interviewed, among others, our managing partner Laura Rooseboom about this question, the [...]

31 August 2021 Susan Leerkes, commercial director of Van Lanschot Kempen, explains in this blog why this independent wealth manager invests in Borski Fund. [...]

September 1, 2021 Borski Fund and Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH) are investing in The Next Closet: a platform for sustainable fashion run by women entrepreneurs. The Next Closet calls itself: [...]

Expertblog - 17 August 2021 Karel Asselbergs, Director of Participations, argues in this blog that StartGreen can make a real impact by thinking in 'and...and', rather than in 'or...or'. [...]

Expertblog - 3 August 2021 Dylan Perales, Sustainability Lead at StartGreen, describes in this blog what the regulation of sustainability disclosures means for StartGreen and its investors. [...]

Expert blog - 21 July 2021 Anouk Blüm, director of finance for StartGreen, explains in this blog what StartGreen considers true green biomass. [...]

12 July 2021 On to the grand finale I have been working towards in this blog series. Now that we know what results 7 years of impact investing have produced, it is [...]

June 22, 2021 At PDENH, we were able to close a series of no less than seven parallel follow-on investments in Q1 2021. Therefore, in this second blog, I take you [...]

16 June 2021 If you love change, this is your time. Our own changemaker Laura Rooseboom was a guest at Change Inc's Future Business Live last Monday to [...]

10 June 2021 We have published our Impact Report for 2020. In a year that also went differently from expected for us, we are nevertheless proud to report that [...]

4 June 2021 Innovations are sorely needed to make the energy transition possible. That is why Energiefonds Overijssel, which we manage, works together with development company Oost NL to help innovative entrepreneurs in [...].

19 May 2021 With the biggest motivation to do more than just 'deals'-as before in my M&A career-I started working seven years ago [...]

18 May 2021 The Borski Fund raised an investment from LIOF, the regional development company for Limburg, which supports innovative entrepreneurs with advice, network and financing. A nice win-win situation [...]

11 May 2021 Our crowdfunding platform Oneplanetcrowd recently raised €1 million in growth funding from the European Investment Fund (EIF). The funding was raised through the EU's Employment and Social Innovation Programme [...]

10 May 2021 Are you a changemaker who believes in diversity, sustainability and a circular economy? And do you want to help build the transition to a sustainable future by [...]

3 May 2021 The FD recently headlined that the government no longer has a role to invest in start-ups, there is enough money for all young companies. In this [...]

26 April 2021 Last week, it was announced that the Borski Fund we founded will invest in The Fabricant. The Fabricant is the world's leading digital fashion house and a pioneer [...]

20 April 2021 Creating possibilities and seizing opportunities is what entrepreneurs are eminently good at. [...]

19 April 2021 PDENH, together with DOEN Participaties and Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO), is investing EUR 2.25 million in MX3D. The investment is for a global acceleration of growth [...]

15 April 2021 It looks like the economy will soon reopen. Forward-looking entrepreneurs want to start up and invest again. However traditional financiers look with old glasses [...]

14 April 2021 PDENH participates in a working capital financing for Triple Solar. Thanks to funding from PDENH, DOEN Participations, Enfuro Ventures and Rabobank, Triple Solar has [...]

25 March 2021 More great news from our managed PDENH. PDENH is participating in an investment round in Sympower, in which it has been participating since 2019. Sympower provides smart [...]

22 March 2021 Attention to climate change has grown enormously in recent years. An old generation has woken up and a new one has emerged. One that is more and [...]

18 March 2021 Breaking! The co-managed PDENH is once again investing in Dexter Energy. With this, Dexter has successfully raised another €2.0 million to continue their mission [...]

8 March 2021 Leading femtech company INNOVO today announced it has two new investors on board. One of them is in the portfolio of StartGreen Capital, the company founded by [...]

3 March 2021 The first year of the Borski Fund we co-founded is over. We would like to show you here what has been done and achieved. Three years [...]

18 February 2021 Simone Brummelhuis, director of the co-founded Borski Fund and The Next Women, has been named one of the 10 most influential women at European [...]

10 February 2021 New EUR 5m investment round for E-magy. E-magy is developing nanotech silicon material for next-generation Li-ion batteries, which material will provide 40% higher energy density. A [...]

A new year, full of new opportunities, we look forward to 2021. Like for many others, 2020 went differently than expected for us. But with the clout and creativity [...]

The StartGreen Capital team wishes you very happy days and an impactful 2021. Happy to continue working with you next year to finance an economy that is self [...]

3 November 2020 The corona measures mainly hit the engine of the Dutch economy: SMEs. [...]

Amsterdam, 2 November 2020 The StartGreen Fund Sustainable SME and Invest-NL are joining forces to help sustainable SME entrepreneurs, who cannot or do not want to turn to the bank, [...]

21 August 2020 Energie Fonds Overijssel recently invested in the Sustainable Security Univé project, which makes company roofs asbestos-free while also providing the company with renewable energy. A great [...]

Groningen, 20 April 2020 Ziel raises €4 million funding from GROEI fund, Borski Fund and Purpose Ventures for European expansion. The clothing industry needs an impactful solution to become [...]

Press Release 31 October 2019 Venture fund helpsscale-upswith growth plans on their way The Borski Fund has raised 21million euros to invest inscale-ups with a woman at the helm. The Borski Fund is [...]

1 April 2020 The first emergency financial measures, including the NOW are a reality. An ambitious, progressive and valuable package. But insufficient for startups. In China, VC investments are [...]

18 March 2019 On 20 March 2019, besides the provincial council elections, there will also be elections to the Water Boards. Then you can choose which party you think can make decisions [...]

09 September 2017 Crowdfunding and sustainability connect seamlessly, argues Coenraad de Vries, co-founder of Oneplanetcrowd: "Sustainability is a complex transition, which can only succeed by [...]

14 October 2018 Offering green businesses a sustainable future through investment and/or crowdfunding. StartGreen Capital deals with this. Managing partner Laura Rooseboom talks about [...] on the Top Names programme.