Best Advanced Materials Companies in Netherlands
The 47 best Advanced Materials companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Airborne.
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Ranked: Best Advanced Materials companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Stage | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acordis Manufacturer of synthetic and specialty fibers. The company produces man-made fibers and specialty materials… | — | — | 5,000 | — | — | Private | — | — |
| 2 | Beyond Wood Producer of biomaterial products | — | — | — | Armand Lipperts Co-Founder | WordPress Site EditorColibri WPWordPress+16 | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 3 | BrightNano Provider of nano-coating solutions for diverse applications | — | — | — | John Poelstra Founder & Owner | — | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 4 | Dungse Labs Provider of sustainable, high-quality products from cow dung | — | — | — | Itika Gupta Founder | — | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 5 | Flexiramics Provider of flexible ceramic materials | — | — | 14 | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Flocus Provider of sustainable fabrics and textile materials | — | — | — | Jeroen Muijsers Owner | Node.jsUbuntuReact+12 | Funding Raised | 8 patents Efficient production of kapok natural fibers for textile applications. | — |
| 7 | Fruitleather Rotterdam Developer of plant-based leather alternative fabric | — | — | — | Hugo Boon Founder | WordPressPleskMySQL+25 | Unfunded | — | — |
| 8 | GraphenePioneer Developer of graphene | — | — | — | Michel Ruiter Founder | — | Funding Raised | — | — |
Top 12 Advanced Materials companies in Netherlands
#1
Series B · Enschede, Overijssel · founded 2014 · 12 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Developer of a hydrogel implant for cartilage defect repair. It facilitates the natural repair of cartilage defects in joints. The hydrogel is biocompatible, mimicking natural joint tissue polymers to protect the injured area and encourage healing. It provides a scaffold for the patient cells to regenerate cartilage to alleviate pain and restore joint function. It addresses the significant unmet need for effective cartilage repair, preventing the progression to osteoarthritis.
- May 2025Series B$5M
- Jun 2022Series B$6.3M
- May 2019Series A$4.1M
- Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$55.9K
#2
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 30 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Manufacturer of nanosized carbon structures. It provides users with carbon material composed of nano-sized carbon filaments which are chemically connected to form a three-dimensional micron-sized network. It also combines the properties and delivers high performance and greater sustainability.
- Feb 2025Series A$5.2M
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$2.6M
- Dec 2024Series A$4.2M
- Feb 2024Series A$10.7M
#3
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 39 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Plantics is a bio-plastic that is biodegradable, made with 100% renewable resources, and is cost-effective. Its features claimed are 100% biodegradability and compostability, full non-toxicity (even when ingested or incinerated), flame retardancy, high chemical and heat resistance. It supplies its bio-plastic in various forms like foam or granules which are then used by converter to make final products. It has also launched products in horticulture packaging. It is active in global plastic thermoset market in which bio-plastics is growing significantly.
- Jun 2025Seed—
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt—
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$59.4K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#4
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2018 · 8 employees$384Kraised▾
Developer of ceramic matrix composites. It provides users with a platform that develops composites material that is lightweight with high stress and corrosion-resistant having applications in multiple sectors like aerospace for aerostructures, satellites, automotive, power, energy, etc.
- Dec 2025Seed—
- Jun 2025Seed—
- Oct 2024Seed—
- Jul 2023Seed$384K
#5
Acquired · The Hague, South Holland · founded 1995 · 56 employees$27.5Mraised▾
Airborne International engages in engineering, manufacturing, and supplying high-end composites structures for industries, such as aerospace, defense, marine, high-end bicycles, and formula-one cars. It offers composites structures maintenance and repair services, including inspection (visual and NDT) and damage assessment, sealing and painting, and balancing.
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$225.5K
- Jul 2020Series C—
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$664.7K
- Jan 2020Series C—
#6
Series A · Delft, South Holland · founded 2014 · 36 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Provider of transparent BIPV solar panels. It provides users with a platform offering transparent BIPV solar panels. It provides a transparent BIPV Solar Panel which can be substituted for windows in office buildings. This platform also provides real estate solutions like smart skin technology and greenhouse solutions.
- May 2021Series A$4.9M
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$60.7K
- Jan 2021Series A$4.9M
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$346.7K
#7
Acquired · The Hague, South Holland · founded 2012 · 21 employees$5.7Mraised▾
Provider of low defect density monolayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. It leverages chemical vapour deposition technology that enables integration with existing substrates such as Si, GaAs, and InP. Its products are used in multiple applications including semiconductor devices, EUV pellicles, membranes, sensors, photonics, spintronics, and THz devices.
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$311.9K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$2.7M
#8
Seed · Wageningen, Gelderland · founded 2011 · 8 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Dutch company Pectof uses coffee pulp-waste generated during the processing of coffee and converts it into consumer products using its propriety technology. It claims that its technology uses biorefining approach that includes green chemistry and biotechnology. The product portfolio includes coffee dietary fiber, antioxidants, natural pigments and byproduct sugar.
- Jan 2022Seed$2.3M
- Dec 2013Grant (prize money)$28K
- Oct 2013Grant (prize money)$22.4K
- Sep 2013Grant (prize money)$22.4K
#9
Seed · Maastricht, Limburg · founded 2021 · 5 employees$1.8Mraised▾
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- Sep 2022Seed$1.8M
#10
Seed · Groningen, Groningen · founded 2018 · 27 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of biodegradable foam solutions. It offers recyclable and compostable foam materials that have applications in bedding and consumer products. It can be used in horticulture, furniture, healthcare, construction, and sports sectors.
- Jul 2019Seed$2.2M
#11
Funding Raised · Wassenaar, South Holland · founded 2001$422.8Kraised▾
Developer of mobile applications, IoT solutions, and time series models. The company builds mobile training applications and cloud platforms. It develops generic deep learning models for timeseries data, converting data into time series streams. The company also creates smart bike platforms and smart wearable technology for monitoring vital signs.
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$422.8K
#12
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2015 · 8 employees$68.7Kraised▾
Basilisk is a company that manufactures a self-healing concrete mix. Product catalog includes self-repair agents for concrete mixes, self-repair mortar, and liquid recovery agents. Some of its projects include Groninger forum and parking garage Apeldoorn. The company claims that the products lead to a significant reduction in CO2 emission. A few of the distributors associated with the company are Basilisk Korea, Aizawa Concrete, Biu International among others.
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$68.7K
- Nov 2017Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Advanced Materials coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Advanced Materials is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Advanced Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 125 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Delft University of Technology37
- Eindhoven University of Technology27
- University of Twente23
- University of Groningen14
- Institute of Physics8
- Actuator2→8
- Elastomer1→4
- Shape-memory alloy1→4
- Shape-memory alloy2→6
- Smart material5→8
- Actuator3→5
- Smart material6
- Field (mathematics)4
- Human–computer interaction3
- Nanotechnology2
- Key (lock)2
Where advanced materials is researched across Netherlands
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.