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Best Energy Efficiency Tech Companies in North Holland, Netherlands

The 36 best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sympower.

36companies tracked
$79.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
11have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECH × NORTH HOLLAND

Our analysis of 50 Energy Efficiency Tech companies

$7.8b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
86%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
4unicorns
2014median founding year
82kcombined LinkedIn audience
59%of audience held by top 3
3companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Sympower
Provider of energy flexibility services for businesses and energy companies
62Tech top 24%Funding top 25%Moat top 37%Innovation top 45%
All 10 signals ▾
Techtop 24%
Fundingtop 25%
Moattop 37%
Innovationtop 45%
Growthtop 45%
Markettop 48%
Patentstop 48%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 39%
Newsbottom 37%
Tech: 44 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3
Funding: Raised $36.1M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 11 yrs (0.8/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100
$36M12 mo agoSeries BSimon Bushell
Co-Founder & CEO
2015HubSpot CMS HubTailwind CSSEnvoy+176 patents
Real-time electrical grid balancing reserves for demand-response and load management
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2Quatt
Manufacturer of heat pumps
$32M26 mo agoSeries ABass Flipse
Co-Founder & COO
2021Webflow EcommerceWebflowBootstrap+302 patents
HVAC room temperature control systems for building heating and cooling
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3Flexidao
Blockchain-based platform for energy management
$6M50 mo agoSeries AGrzegorz Bytniewski
Co-Founder
2017———
4BlueHeart Energy
Developer of thermo acoustic technology for residential heat pump applications
$3M17 mo agoSeedHaico Halbesma
co-founder
2016WordPressSentryElasticsearch+24——
5RGS Development
Thermoelectric heat panels to convert waste heat into electricity
$1M117 mo agoEarly StageAxel Schonecker
Founder & CTO
2000———
6Cohere
Offers smart charging solutions for electric vehicles
$337K123 mo agoSeedMichael Coussement
Co-Founder
2011———
7Tvilight
Provider of commercial street lighting solutions
$108K118 mo agoAcquiredHeide Jeuken-Dahmen
Chief Executive Officer
2011WordPressMySQLPHP+1619 patents
Wireless multi-node lighting control and motion detection networking systems
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8Hyko
Energy monitoring in homes
$57K138 mo agoSeed—2014———

Top 11 Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland

#1
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 141 employees
$36.1Mraised
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Provider of energy flexibility services for businesses and energy companies. The company offers solutions for battery energy storage systems, renewable energy sources, and demand response. These services enable businesses to optimise energy usage, support grid stability, and unlock new revenue streams. The company’s platform uses forecasting and trading to maximise revenue generation while preserving asset health.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 24%
Funding
top 25%
Moat
top 37%
Innovation
top 45%
Growth
top 45%
Market
top 48%
Tech: 44 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Devops: Envoy
Funding: Raised $36.1M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 11 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series B (Sep 2025)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 6 patents · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 20k LinkedIn followers — 24.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series B$22.3M
  • Nov 2024Series B$22.6M
  • 2023Grant (prize money)—
  • Nov 2022Series B$3.1M
Founders & team
Simon BushellCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Prototron Fund, Activate Capital, Rubio impact Ventures, PDENH, Rockstart, Expon Capital
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle Analytics
#2
Seed · Alkmaar, North Holland · founded 2016 · 33 employees
$2.9Mraised
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Developer of thermo acoustic technology for residential heat pump applications. The technology replaces core components of heat pumps for integration by original equipment manufacturers. The company’s technology enables heat pumps to operate affordably and silently across wide temperature ranges. The technology does not require refrigerants and generates no emissions. The company focuses on residential buildings with future applications planned.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 6.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Seed—
  • Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$2.8M
  • 2021Grant (prize money)$56.6K
Founders & team
Haico Halbesmaco-founderMichiel HartmanCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Copeland, European Innovation Council
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAnimate.CssCloudflareCookiebotFont AwesomeGsap
#3
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2021 · 20 employees
$32.3Mraised
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Manufacturer of heat pumps

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 15k LinkedIn followers — 17.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Quatt) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Series A$27.2M
  • May 2023Seed$1.6M
  • Sep 2022Seed$2M
  • Mar 2022Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Bass FlipseCo-Founder & COOMarijn FlipseCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
DuurzaamInvesteren.nl, Blue Earth Capital, Seaya, Impact Equity Fund
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssApache Http ServerAxiosBootstrap
#4
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017 · 45 employees
$6.5Mraised
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Blockchain-based software platform for energy management. The platform provides energy data management tools for smart energy management services. The software uses a real-time digital notary to accredit the source of electricity and assigns them automatically according to the requirement. It allows the user to opt for renewable source energy and can monitor real-time energy consumption data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 14k LinkedIn followers — 17.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. P&G) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Series A$6.5M
  • Sep 2019Seed—
Founders & team
Grzegorz BytniewskiCo-FounderJoan CollellCo-FounderSimone AccorneroCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Google, Microsoft, SET Ventures, EIT InnoEnergy, E.ON :agile, Free Electrons
#5
Early Stage · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2000 · 12 employees
$1.3Mraised
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RGS Development, a spin-off from the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands - ECN, has developed a proprietary production process to manufacture nanostructured silicon germanium and higher manganese silicide Thermagy heat panels which find application in the field of high temperature, industrial waste heat recovery.A Thermagy heat panel is a 200x300mm Thermo Electric Generator device (TEG), to be placed above and exposed to a radiation heat source. Panels are mounted in racks and connected to the electrical and water/steam infrastructure. At system level, an electrical inverter can be added to convert DC to AC.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 631 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$804.2K
  • Jul 2015PE$1.3M
Founders & team
Maarten Den HeijerCEOAxel SchoneckerFounder & CTO
Investors
Europa, PDENH
Tech stack
ModxPhpBootstrapAnimate.CssApache Http ServerSlick
#6
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2011
$337.5Kraised
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Offers smart charging solutions for electric vehicles. The company develops products for residential and commercial applications. The company's product is a smart solution for charging electric vehicles. It is suited to 32A cars, monitors charging transactions, and provides real-time electricity consumption. It also supports solar charging. The corporate model helps with industrial load balancing.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2016Seed$337.5K
Founders & team
Michael CoussementCo-FounderJan-Willem HeinenCo-Founder
Tech stack
VarnishApache Http ServerGoogle Font Api
#7
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2011 · 25 employees
$107.5Kraised
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Provider of commercial street lighting solutions. Based on their patented presence detection solution, their products offer on-demand lighting. Their solution is suitable for both existing (PLL, SON, HID) as well as new LED outdoor lamps. The sensors are Zigbee based. They also offer software for controlling and setting the lights. Features include context-specific lighting levels, detection patterns, and lamp failure detection as well as an open platform that can interface with hardware from other providers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 6.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2016Series A—
  • Nov 2015Grant (prize money)$52.9K
  • Jun 2015Grant (prize money)$54.6K
  • 2012Seed—
Founders & team
Heide Jeuken-DahmenChief Executive Officer
Investors
Osram, Ponooc, EIC Fund, Europa, Climate KIC, YES!Delft
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceGsap
#8
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 3 employees
$56.9Kraised
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Hyko from CareToSave is a plastic polar bear that monitors home energy consumption and glows different colors based on energy consumption. The device is aimed at teaching children about reducing their electricity use and shows different colors based on consumption white for saving mode, red for high consumption. It tracks the consumption by installing sensors on energy meter and transmitting data via Wifi.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2015Seed$56.9K
  • 2014Seed—
  • Jan 2014Seed—
Investors
E.ON :agile, Rockstart, SpeedUP! Europe, Hardware
#9
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2022
—raised
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Provider of autonomous charging systems and shore power systems. It helps reduce the carbon footprint of marine vessels.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 656 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. REGBES) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Mert DoganliCo-Founder
#10
Seed · Rijsenhout, North Holland · founded 2019 · 7 employees
—raised
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Provider of AI-enabled decarbonization and energy management solutions for businesses. It uses AI-based technology consisting of hardware and a machine learning-powered platform to deliver actionable and real-time intelligence which helps retail businesses to improve operational and energy efficiency. It also provides a SaaS platform for energy efficiency recommendations.

Funding rounds
  • 2022Seed—
  • Nov 2019Seed—
Founders & team
Ankit ChouhanCo-Founder & CEOPuneet BatraCo-Founder
Investors
Startup Wise Guys, Brinc, Artesian, Schneider Electric
#11
Deadpooled · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015
—raised
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Online energy comparison and switching platform. The platform automatically tracks and compares energy bills using market behavioral algorithms and allows to switch suppliers.

Funding rounds
  • 2015Seed—
  • 2015Seed—
Founders & team
Daniel John BakerCo-FounderJames WinfieldCo-Founder & CEOHarrie PietersCo-Founder
Investors
E.ON :agile, Rockstart

Funding & investor landscape

$79.5Mtotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
22disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Rockstart6 rounds
Europa4 rounds
E.ON :agile3 rounds
EIC Fund3 rounds
Climate KIC2 rounds
EIT InnoEnergy2 rounds
PDENH2 rounds
A&G1 rounds
Activate Capital1 rounds
Artesian1 rounds

Notable founders

Simon Bushell
Co-Founder & CEO · Sympower
Haico Halbesma
co-founder · BlueHeart Energy
Michiel Hartman
Co-Founder & CEO · BlueHeart Energy
Bass Flipse
Co-Founder & COO · Quatt
Marijn Flipse
Co-Founder & CEO · Quatt
Grzegorz Bytniewski
Co-Founder · Flexidao
Joan Collell
Co-Founder · Flexidao
Maarten Den Heijer
CEO · RGS Development
Axel Schonecker
Founder & CTO · RGS Development
Michael Coussement
Co-Founder · Cohere
Jan-Willem Heinen
Co-Founder · Cohere
Heide Jeuken-Dahmen
Chief Executive Officer · Tvilight
Prism market signals · Netherlands · country-scoped Prism corpus, 263,670 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Energy Efficiency Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Netherlands

How research on Energy Efficiency & Buildings is moving in the Netherlands

A read on the academic research around Energy Efficiency & Buildings — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 272 Netherlands-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201220202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 64% → 56% across 2012–2026.
top research entities
  • Delft University of Technology103
  • Eindhoven University of Technology61
  • University of Twente36
  • Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research12
  • Utrecht University8
leading researchers
Pavol Bauer · Johann L. Hurink · C.A. Infante Ferreira · Phuong H. Nguyen · Anton A. Kiss · Martin Bloemendal · B. Asare-Bediako · Gerard J.M. Smit
▲ Breakthroughs56 · 21%
▲ 20%→24% share
▲1.2× share momentum2 median citations59% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (20%→24% of field), led by Heat pump.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Heat pump4→11
  • Energy management5→11
  • Nuclear engineering1→4
Newly emergingHeat exchanger 0→6 · Energy storage 0→5
Landmark Energy Management System With PV Power Forecast to Optimally Charge EVs at the Workplace · 249 cites
◆ Advancements172 · 63%
▲ 59%→64% share
▲1.1× share momentum5 median citations52% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (59%→64% of field), led by Process engineering.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Process engineering1→14
  • Heat pump21→33
  • Renewable energy5→12
  • Energy storage1→7
  • Photovoltaic system3→8
Newly emergingMechanical engineering 0→7 · Thermal comfort 0→6 · Battery (electricity) 0→5
Landmark Seasonal thermal energy storage: A techno-economic literature review · 284 cites
▼ Concerns27 · 10%
▼ 14%→8% share
▼0.6× share momentum2 median citations41% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (14%→8% of field), led by Heat pump.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Heat pump2→5
  • Electricity2→4
Landmark Passive cooling & climate responsive façade design · 79 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Netherlands

Where energy efficiency 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.

Delft114 · +0.51
Hot · Heat pumpAdvancing · MicrogridOpportunity · Energy storageConcern · Passive cooling
Eindhoven62 · +0.54
Hot · Demand responseAdvancing · Flexibility (engineering)Opportunity · Baseline (sea)
Groningen19 · +0.32
Hot · Smart gridAdvancing · Energy consumptionOpportunity · Heat pumpConcern · Energy management
Utrecht8 · +0.24
Hot · Energy storageOpportunity · Renewable heat
Rotterdam7 · +0.49
Hot · Heat exchangerAdvancing · Heat pumpOpportunity · Coefficient of performance

Common questions

How many Energy Efficiency Tech companies are there in North Holland, Netherlands?
Radar tracks 36 indexable Energy Efficiency Tech companies headquartered in North Holland, Netherlands that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands?
The Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands on this list have raised a combined $79.5M in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Energy Efficiency Tech company in North Holland, Netherlands?
Sympower is the highest-funded Energy Efficiency Tech company in North Holland, Netherlands, with $36.1M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands are funded?
8 of the 36 Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Energy Efficiency Tech unicorns are there in North Holland, Netherlands?
None of the Energy Efficiency Tech companies in North Holland, Netherlands on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Holland, Netherlands Energy Efficiency Tech companies?
The most active investors in North Holland, Netherlands Energy Efficiency Tech companies on this list include Rockstart, Europa, E.ON :agile, EIC Fund, Climate KIC.
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