Aurea Imaging is a specialist in crop intelligence technology. Their innovative TreeScout system allows growers with orchards to adjust dosages per tree to increase yields, reduce labor costs and use 90% less chemicals.

In this way, Aurea contributes to a healthier and more sustainable future for farmers and consumers.

Ceradis is a spin-off from Wageningen University and develops and sells fungicides based on patented technology that increases the effectiveness of plant protection products. This results in less residues of fungicides on fields and crops. www.ceradis.com

Dens develops and sells power generators that run on formic acid. The system doesn’t emit any harmful emissions, such as fossil-carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides or soot. The formic acid can be produced in a sustainable way. Besides, the generators made by Dens are a sustainable and silent alternative for the diesel powered generators that are used f.e. on construction sites, at events or at airports. www.dens.one

Gentle Green developed a new climate, water, and energy system that combines climate and airflow control in a greenhouse with heating and cooling. This allows for closed greenhouses, such that no energy, water or CO2 is lost by opening windows. The risk of death from viruses, bacteria, fungi and pollen is reduced by more than 90%. The overall result is a more sustainable greenhouse with higher profitability and improved yield of healthy food.

GreenPro International plays an important role as a go-to-market partner for both companies and retailers of plant-based products in key European markets. By improving the availability and accessibility of plant-based products for consumers, GreenPro plays an instrumental role in accelerating the transition towards a healthier and more sustainable plant-based diet.

Inspirafarms helps African and South American farmers with their harvest. The company develops modular solutions to the sustainable cooling and processing of crops and it supports farmers with products, the needed funding and technical support. The result is better access to safer and healthier food. This makes food less expensive and results in less foodwaste. www.inspirafarms.com

Johnny Cashew cuts the unnecessary detour out of the cashew nut chain: from Africa via Asia to the Netherlands. A detour of 12,000 to 25,000 kilometers, with associated CO2 emissions. By shelling cashew nuts where they are produced - in the case of Johhny Cashew in Tanzania - and transporting them from there to the Netherlands, Johnny Cashew has already saved more than 200,000 transport kilometres in recent years. And that while the company only saw the light of day in 2020!

Johnny Cashew also works with 1,100 Fairtrade farmers in Tanzania. And they created about 600 jobs in the Mama Cashew peeling factory in the same country.

Johnny's delicious cashew nuts are available at Albert Heijn, Picnic, EkoPlaza, the Wereldwinkels and at Lidl under the sustainable brand Way to Go.

Goeie Grutten invests together with impact fund People and a British investor. You can read more about this investment on MT/Sprout.

Kitchen Republic lets out a professionally decorated production kitchen and is the place where you can meet upcoming food producers and caterers. They are building an ecosystem in which innovative companies, through knowledge sharing and networking, help each other to start a business and to make it grow. www.kitchenrepublic.nl

It is the mission of Lazy Vegan to make it really easy to eat vegan; purely plant based. They believe this way of eating is better for your health, animal welfare and our planet.

That is why Lazy Vegan develops and sells purely plant-based ready-meals, which you can find in the freezer of your (online) supermarket. All meals consist of natural ingredients and contain at least 200 grams of vegetables and 26 grams protein. The meals are free from soy since a pea-protein is used. And the very best is: the meals are ready in 8 minutes!

Lyv is developing an advanced energy management system (EMS), with which, for example, batteries, boilers and heat pumps can be controlled. By switching the devices on and off at the right moment, overloading of the power grid can be prevented. A phenomenon that will happen more and more often in the future as more and more electric driving takes place and households move away from the gas grid.

LionVolt, a spin-out of the Dutch Technology Centre TNO has developed a revolutionary type of battery based on 3-D technology and solid-state. These batteries are intrinsically safe, lightweight, load super-fast and have a long-life durability. Solid state has as additional benefit, that a battery cannot catch fire or explode. Goeie Grutten co-financed the early phase of the company. First applications can be expected in the wearables segment, where “wet” lithium batteries are still dominant.

We are proud to be investors in NOWOS!

NOWOS repairs lithium batteries used mainly in the mobility sector (such as batteries for e-bikes and e-steps), significantly extending their life. In this way, the company helps to reduce waste, costs and ecological impact.

As an impact investment fund focused on the food and energy transition, we believe that every repaired battery eliminates the need to produce a new one. This not only reduces the use of scarce resources, but also makes the transition to emission-free mobility more accessible and cheaper - thanks to the ability to repair rather than replace. In our view, this is as relevant to the energy transition as innovation in new technology.

We therefore look forward to working with NOWOS and fellow shareholders, including Shift4Good and Fair Capital Impact Fund, to contribute to NOWOS' continued growth while accelerating the energy transition.

Nutrileads, established in 2012, develops innovative natural food ingredients with clinically proven health benefits for application in dietary supplements and functional foods. Its proprietary lead ingredient, XtramuneTM, is a unique carrot-derived fibre supporting immune function and resistance to respiratory infections.

Foundation "Plaatsen Nederland” works with (groups of) farmers, scientists, system players, artists, innovative representatives of knowledge and financial institutions and numerous other citizens on a new perspective for a regenerative food system. We do this by bringing people together, both in physical Places and in (virtual) networks. We strive for accessible, affordable, healthy and good food for everyone that above all contributes to a restored ecosystem. De first Place is located in Boxtel.

A unique, pioneering creative catering agency, that's what The Food Line-up is. It's their mission to let the consumer discover better food at events. Food with incredible taste, a sustainable DNA and arranged by them from nose to tail. For every event, a suitable line-up is proposed. www.thefoodlineup.nl

Verdify helps people make better food choices. For their own health and for the climate. To achieve this, Verdify has developed software that optimizes the composition of meals based on information about health and sustainability.

Consumers can personalize each recipe on the internet to their own needs and preferences. And health care providers can help their patients eat according to a certain diet.

This way everyone can eat healthier and more sustainably.

VitalFluid is a world leader in the development of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) as a sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides. Plant protection products are essential for global food production, but at the same time pose a major risk to public health, biodiversity and the environment. To tackle these problems, sustainable alternatives are necessary.

During thunderstorms, lightning naturally converts water into PAW. VitalFluid has mimicked this process and the machine developed by VitalFluid enables farmers and horticulturists to produce PAW on site. This technology offers a natural and sustainable alternative to pesticides and has proven to be safe, effective and scalable to support fruit and vegetable cultivation without negative side effects.

With the investment of Goeie Grutten and consortium partners, including Innovation Industries, FutureFoodFund and the BOM, VitalFluid can focus on market introduction

Health but also social inclusion is central to the impact World of Nix alcohol-free liquor store aims to make. This is also the reason Goeie Grutten Impact Fund has invested to enable further growth.

More and more people are opting for alcohol-free alternatives. And there are plenty of these in the1 now 4 physical liquor stores and the web-shop. From non-alcoholic gins to kombucha and from 0% IPA beers to non-alcoholic whiskey, the range is very extensive and in shops, customers get to taste everything. It is a true experience.

The two entrepreneurs: Wim Boekema and Frederike de Groot toast to the cooperation.

XINTC develops and produces innovative modular alkaline electrolysers for the production of hydrogen gas for medium-scale applications, at any desired location. The company's electrolyser is therefore suitable for converting solar and wind energy directly into hydrogen. As a clean energy carrier, hydrogen is in the international spotlight. Hydrogen makes an important and lasting contribution to reducing our CO2 footprint. The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is an electrochemical process and occurs in an electrolyser. No CO2 is released. For large-scale applications, there is a need for affordable, efficient, sustainable and flexible electrolysis capacity.

Collateral Good is a food technology venture capital fund. This fund aims to help build a more sustainable food system by investing in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The underlying mission of the fund is to support and promote a positive global impact on the environment, human health and animal welfare. Plant based proteins and cellular agriculture (clean meat) are the main focus areas. The Fund operates on a global scale with a certain focus on Europe.

https://www.collatergood.eu

EcoEnterprises Fund is a fund that invests in companies that enhance the quality of life in Latin America. This fund invests, among others, in agrofood, ecotourism and sustainable living. ecoenterprisesfund.com

Icos Capital manages, since 2005, sustainability funds that invest in companies with leading innovations that have realised both financial gains and sustainability gains. Specifically on sustainable food systems, sustainable chemistry (e.g. the conversion of CO2 into chemicals) and materials, industrial digitalisation and low-carbon alternatives.

Due to increasing ambitions in business, but also due to legal obligations on circular economy and decarbonisation, climate tech is becoming more prominent. Icos Capital is jumping on the opportunities this presents and accelerating the wave of innovation that is taking place.

Read more about Icos Capital in our news article!

Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund (PymHEIF) invests in innovative and disruptive impact companies. These are companies who made business out of conserving and restoring our ecosystem and who nevertheless generate a considerable financial profit. The focus of PymHEIF is on clean water, the food system, the circular economy and restoring the soil. pymwymic.com

The Rockstart Energy Fund is part of Rockstart, an international ecosystem focussing on matching technology start-up companies with market experience. The needed world-wide energy transition is not possible without the innovation from start-ups. The Rockstart Energy program supports energy start-ups in their research en development, the validation of their business model and the selection of the best product-market combinations. Subsequently, the ecosystem helps companies to grow internationally. The Rockstart Energy Fund can provide growth-financing to these companies to help them scale-up.

Unovis Investment Fund partners with entrepreneurs developing innovative plant-based and cultivated replacements to animal products, including meat, seafood, dairy, and eggs. Their goal is to transform the global food system by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioural change and eliminate the consumption of animal protein products.

The fund provides seed to growth funding to entrepreneurs developing plant, fungi, fermented, and cultivated replacements to animal products. The fund helps build lasting companies by supporting founders by sharing experience in food manufacturing and thier global network.