Portfolio Archieven - Goeie Grutten Impact Fonds

Icos Capital

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!

Verdify

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.

Johnny Cashew

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.

Aurea Imaging

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.

Plaatsen Nederland

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.

XINTC

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.

New investment in sustainable energy storage

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.

Eindeloze toepassingen met groene bananen

Nicole, productmanager bij Gabanna, licht toe in een interview tijdens een groot Amerikaans food event dat er vele toepassingen zijn voor het meel van de Matooke banaan. Van cereals tot pasta en snacks. Bovendien is het meel glutenvrij.

https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2019/06/21/Gabanna-sees-endless-opportunities-for-green-banana-flour-in-food-and-beverage-formulations?utm_source=copyright&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright

New in our portfolio: EcoEnterprises

EcoEnterprises is a fund that utilizes mezzanine, quasi-equity, and long-term debt instruments to drive growth in expanding sectors such as sustainable agriculture, agro-forestry, sustainable aquaculture, ecotourism, certified forestry, and wild-harvested products. Since the beginning of 2019 Goeie Grutten invested in this fund.

Kitchen Republic expands

In October Kitchen Republic expanded their professional kitchen. Now, even more food-pioneers and food-service specialists can hire a professional kitchen to scale up their businesses. More to read on the website of Kitchen Republic