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BOM

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Tilburg · Pre-Seed–Growth · 18 people tracked

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BOM is the regional development company for Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, aiming to accelerate innovation and strengthen the regional economy. It provides patient capital of up to €5 million to innovative entrepreneurs, invests in more than 40 funds, and works alongside a network of over 150 co-investors, with fund assets moving toward €1 billion. It offers financing instruments matched to a company's lifecycle plus venture development programs. BOM focuses on four themes: sustainable food, healthy future, climate-neutral energy, and promising key technologies. It also supports international expansion, cross-border innovation collaboration, and attracts foreign direct investment to Brabant.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Growth
Check
$540K – $5.4M
HQ
Tilburg, NL
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity · Debt
Founded
1983
Last 12 months
1 investment
AUM
$450M
Tracked investments
164

Team · 18 people

from public directories
Keshia Engels· Analystin
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What they invest in

from 125 of 164 portfolio companies

Hardware ×37Deep Tech ×31Biotech ×25Cleantech ×24Healthtech ×21SaaS ×20AI & Machine Learning ×18Energy ×18

HQs:Netherlands×55United States×3Ireland×1Qatar×1Sweden×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 10 portfolio companies
100%
solo founders
10 of 10 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×10

Investments · 164 tracked

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By year:2026 · 12024 · 12014 · 13 dated

Aaebvaaebv.comin

AAE designs, builds, and manufactures high-tech modules, systems, and equipment at scale, offering contract manufacturing to OEMs and high-volume automation companies.

Advanced ManufacturingHardwareRobotics

Adchieveadchieve.com

Adchieve provides data-driven online marketing and advertising automation software for the travel and hospitality industry, including hotels, resorts, holiday parks, OTAs, and tour operators.

AdTechMarketing TechTravel & Hospitality

Additive Industriesadditiveindustries.comin

Additive Industries builds modular, multi-laser metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems, such as its MetalFab platform, along with application development programs and full lifecycle support to move high-value complex parts from first article to serial production.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware

Aglaia Oncology Fundsaglaia-oncology.com

Aglaia is an investment firm that funds and co-founds early-stage oncology drug development companies, providing hands-on support in R&D planning from screening and animal studies through clinical trials.

Co-investorsAurora ScienceCathay VentureKorysOost NL

Agri Food Healthagrifoodhealth.nl
AIKONaikonhealth.comin

AIKON Health develops a wearable heart failure monitoring device paired with digital health software that supports cardiologists and nurses in medication titration and continuous monitoring of heart failure patients.

Digital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices

Airborne - DEVairborne.comin𝕏

Airborne provides digital automation systems and composite parts manufacturing services, including technologies such as Automated Ply Placement and Kit by Light.

Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials

Aircisionaircision.comin

Aircision develops free-space optical wireless communication systems that provide jam-resistant, license-free, high-capacity links for defense and telecommunications customers where fiber is impractical and RF is vulnerable.

Deep TechDefense TechHardwareEindhoven, NL

Co-investorsHighTechXL

AM-Flowam-flow.comin

AM-Flow builds automated post-processing systems for additive manufacturing, using AI and machine-vision technology to identify, sort, and quality-check 3D-printed parts.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Antenna Companyantennacompany.comin

Antenna Company designs and manufactures antennas, from single elements to fully integrated systems, offering both off-the-shelf standard products and custom design and manufacturing services.

Deep TechHardwareIoT

Co-investorsWaterman VenturesLux Capital

Any Idany-id.nl
Armariumarmarium.nl

Armarium provides case management and deadline-tracking software for law firms, including modules for administering civil and administrative law cases and exchanging PDF files in legal proceedings.

LegalTechSaaS

Ato Gearato-gear.comin𝕏

ATO-GEAR develops ARION, a smart wearable insole and connected ecosystem that uses proprietary algorithms and an AI engine to capture data and insights on human movement for sports and running applications.

HardwareSports TechWellness & Fitness

Co-investorsInnovation Industries

ATROatromedical.comin

ATRO Medical is a Dutch clinical-stage orthopedic company developing the Artimis artificial meniscus implant (prosthesis) for patients with chronic knee pain after meniscectomy.

BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesNijmegen, NL

Tony van Tienen(Founder)

Co-investorsThuja Capital

Autoscriberautoscriber.com
Avendaravendar.comin

Avendar builds an AI platform that helps European public-sector professionals make critical decisions, offering tools such as Caselink to collect, analyze and prioritize tips from the public for police investigators and to screen subsidy applications for corruption.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTech

Co-investorsLumo Labs

Avidicureavidicure.com

Avidicure develops "Actibody", a triple-agonistic antibody platform built on a human IgG scaffold designed to activate the innate and adaptive immune system for treating oncology and autoimmune diseases.

AI & Machine LearningBiotech

Co-investorsBioGeneration VenturesEQT Life SciencesCurie CapitalKurma PartnersV-Bio Ventures

AVL Motionavlmotion.comin

AVL Motion builds a second-generation asparagus harvesting robot, the AVL Compact S9000, for agricultural growers.

AgTechHardwareRobotics

Co-investorsFFFFuture Food Fund

Baltic Innovation Fund 3eif.orgin𝕏

The European Investment Fund (EIF) provides debt and equity financing to European SMEs and infrastructure projects across their development stages, channelling funding through funds and intermediaries.

FintechImpact & Social Good

Co-investorsAlpine Space VenturesCrowberry CapitalInvivo Capital PartnersKhanuM80 PartnersTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)+2 more

BB Leapbbleap.comin𝕏

BBLeap builds precision spraying technology for agricultural sprayers, offered as after-market retrofits or factory-integrated solutions, enabling variable-rate application at the individual plant level.

AgTechClimate TechHardware

Co-investorsThe Yield Lab EuropeThe Yield Lab

betaalbare en duurzame energiegeothermieplukmade.nl
betaalbare en duurzame energieimefficiency.com

Co-investorsRockstart

betaalbare en duurzame energieliqal.com
BioConnectionbioconnection.euin

BioConnection is a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) providing aseptic fill & finish services and freeze-drying (lyophilization) for sterile pharmaceutical drug products at clinical and commercial scale.

Advanced ManufacturingBiotechMedical Devices

Co-investorsGimv

BioGeneration Venturesbiogenerationventures.com

BioGeneration Ventures is a venture capital investor focused on early-stage biotech and life sciences companies.

Biotech

Co-investorsKfW CapitalNovo Holdings

BioVexin𝕏

Amgen is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures therapeutics targeting oncology, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, bone health, neuroscience, and other serious illnesses.

BiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesThousand Oaks, US

George B. Rathmann(First CEO)

BoardWilliam K. Bowes

Co-investorsAsset Management CompanyCWRU Technology VenturesMayfield FundUS Venture PartnersYsios Capital

Boschbosch.nlin𝕏

Bosch's Netherlands presence page, offering customer service and support and links to the company's social media channels.

Advanced Manufacturing

Bradford Spacebradford-space.comin
Cantonicantonitx.nlin

Cantoni Therapeutics is a biotech company developing small molecule bisubstrate inhibitors of the enzyme nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) as a treatment for obesity and its cardiometabolic complications such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

BiotechDeep TechHealthtech

Carbyoncarbyon.comin

Carbyon develops direct air capture technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and supply it as circular CO2.

CleantechClimate TechDeep TechEindhoven, NL

Hans De Neve(Founder)

Co-investorsGlobal Cleantech CapitalInnovation IndustriesLowercarbon CapitalInvest-NLOmnes CapitalHighTechXL+3 more

Chaincargochaincargo.euin

CtrlChain (ChainCargo) is a transportation management company offering road freight services and a SaaS Transportation Management System (TMS) that automates carrier coordination, booking, and shipment tracking.

B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Citryllcitryll.comin

Citryll is a biotech company developing CIT-013, a first-in-class monoclonal antibody that targets Extracellular Traps (ETs) to treat immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, with a focus on rheumatoid arthritis and hidradenitis suppurativa.

BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesOss, NL

Co-investorsCurie CapitalNovartis Venture FundPureos BioventuresBioGeneration VenturesForbion

CoolSemcoolsemtechnologies.comin

CoolSem develops wafer-level thermal management technology for semiconductor and photonic devices, using its patented WaLTIS engineered substrate to replace the original device substrate and reduce thermal resistance and mechanical stress in chips such as GaN, GaAs, InP and SiC.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsEindhoven, NL

Robbert van der Waal(Founder)

Co-investorsSHIFT Invest

Cristal Therapeuticscristaltherapeutics.comin𝕏

Cristal Therapeutics develops a proprietary copper-free click chemistry platform, CliCr®, used to create bioconjugate products with higher stability and faster reaction rates.

BiotechDeep Tech

Co-investorsDroia VenturesBioGeneration VenturesThuja Capital

Crossfire Oncologycrossfire-oncology.comin

Crossfire Oncology develops kinase-targeting cancer drugs using three approaches: inhibitors, degraders, and degrader antibody conjugates.

BiotechHealthtech

Cytosmartcytosmart.cominacquired by Axion BioSystems

AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical Devices

Co-investorsHolland Capital

Cytura Therapeuticscyturatherapeutics.com

Cytura Therapeutics develops cancer treatments that target genomic instability, both as a stand-alone therapy and in combination therapy, to reduce therapy resistance and relapse.

BiotechHealthtech

Deitydeity.io
DENSdens.onein

DENS develops and produces the Hydrozine generator along with modular, scalable battery systems, including mobile, stationary, and integrated battery solutions for clean power generation.

CleantechEnergyHardware

Dimencodimenco.euin𝕏

Dimenco develops Immersity, a platform combining spatial AI software and switchable-display hardware that produces holographic 3D depth effects on existing devices like phones, tablets, monitors, and laptops.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardware

ECFGecfg.nlin

ECFG is a Netherlands-based firm that provides expertise, capital, and network access to help growth-oriented companies expand and advises on transactions such as company sales and acquisitions.

Sector AgnosticEindhoven, NL

Co-investorsFORWARD.one

EFFECT Photonicseffectphotonics.comin𝕏

EFFECT Photonics designs integrated tunable laser assemblies (pico and nano ITLAs) built on a monolithic indium phosphide photonic integration platform for coherent optical transceivers used in telecom, metro, access, DCI and AI networks.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsEindhoven, NL

Co-investorsInnovation IndustriesMatterwave VenturesPhotonVentures

Enablenowenablenow.nlin

EnableNow provides Open Banking software built on PSD2 that retrieves and analyzes bank transaction data in real time, automatically categorizing transactions to reveal net disposable income, recurring costs, spending patterns and repayment capacity.

Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS

Endeitendeit.com

Eir is a full-stack embedded insurance carrier that provides an API-driven platform for underwriting, claims, and compliance, letting digital platforms, MGAs, and e-commerce businesses launch white-label non-life insurance products.

FintechInsurTechSaaS

Co-investorsKfW CapitalPeakCapnamicEndeit CapitalFounders FuturePorsche Ventures

Energieopslag Spinderenergieopslagspinder.nlin

Energieopslag Spinder is a community energy-storage project that operates a battery on the site of the Spinderwind wind farm and upcoming solar park in Tilburg, storing locally generated wind and solar energy for more efficient use.

CleantechClimate TechEnergyTilburg, NL

ENPICOMenpicom.comin𝕏

ENPICOM builds software and provides embedded engineering teams to automate antibody and biologics discovery workflows, handling lead selection from Sanger or NGS sequencing data.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechSaaS

Equflowequflow.com
Etulipaetulipa.com

Etulipa develops Electro Wetting Display technology, a type of reflective ePaper made for outdoor use that produces bright full-color images without light pollution and can operate fully off-grid.

CleantechDeep TechHardware

Doeke Oostra

eyeo imagingeyeo.techin

eyeo develops image sensors based on its proprietary NCOS (Nanophotonic Color Splitting) technology, which uses nano-photonic structures to split light and direct wavelengths to sensor pixels without the light loss of conventional color filters.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors

Ferlemferlem.comin

Ferlem offers Smile™, a housing concept for building sustainable, energy-efficient and affordable homes, aimed at housing corporations and property developers.

CleantechConstruction TechPropTech

Flindrflindrtx.comin𝕏

Flindr develops small molecule inhibitors for precision cancer treatment, using its ImmunoGram Drug Discovery Engine to identify novel targets in both cancer cells and immune cells.

BiotechDeep TechHealthtech

Co-investorsV-Bio Ventures

FononTechfonontech.com

Fonontech develops advanced semiconductor and microelectronics manufacturing technology using additive manufacturing techniques to create smaller, more efficient components with significantly reduced environmental impact and energy consumption.

CleantechHardwareSemiconductorsEindhoven, NL

Co-investorsIn-Q-TelSHIFT InvestInnovation Industries

Forbionforbion.com

Forbion is a global venture capital firm that invests in biotech innovations and sustainable solutions focused on human and planetary health.

BiotechClimate TechImpact & Social Good

Co-investorsKfW CapitalForbion

Fruitfunkfruitfunk.com

Fruitfunk makes fruit-based snacks and candies for children, produced without added sugar and using only fruit while retaining fibers, minerals and vitamins.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech

Gatesoftgatesoft.nlin

GateSoft develops property management software, offering a cloud-based platform plus native iOS and Android apps for property managers, HOAs/condominium associations, and tenants.

AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS

geen hongervitalfluid.nlin

VitalFluid develops on-site technology that produces Plasma Activated Water (PAW) from water, air, and electricity as a residue-free alternative to chemical fungicides for greenhouse, orchard, and open field growers.

AgTechCleantechHardware

Paul LeendersPolo van Ooij

gendergelijkheidcapitaltvc.comin

Capital TVC is an early-stage investment firm that funds and works closely with founding teams to help them scale their companies.

Sector Agnostic

gendergelijkheidhenq.vc

henQ is a venture capital firm that invests in a small number of companies each year, providing support with hiring, fundraising, and goal setting.

Enterprise Software

Co-investorsHENQ Invest

Getperagetpera.comin

Pera is an AI-powered candidate screening platform that predicts the job performance and culture-fit of job applicants using language data benchmarked against a database of millions of professionals.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Gilde Healthcaregildehealthcare.com

Gilde Healthcare is a transatlantic investment firm managing venture, growth, and private equity funds that back companies in healthcare and climate solutions, including medtech, digital health, therapeutics, and energy transition.

Co-investorsKfW CapitalVictrix

Exits · 1

IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolio

Cytosmartacq. by Axion BioSystems

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has BOM made?
BOM has 164 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does BOM invest at?
BOM invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
What is BOM's typical check size?
BOM typically writes checks of $540K – $5.4M.
What sectors does BOM focus on?
BOM focuses on Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Energy, FoodTech, Healthtech.
Where is BOM located?
BOM is headquartered in Tilburg, NL.
Does BOM lead rounds?
BOM typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Who does BOM co-invest with?
BOM most often shares deals with KfW Capital, Innovation Industries, Curie Capital, among 66 tracked co-investors.

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