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Best Environment Companies in North Brabant, Netherlands

The 45 best Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: taylor.

45companies tracked
$17.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
11have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ENVIRONMENT × NORTH BRABANT

Our analysis of 309 Environment companies

$75.8b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

309companies analysed
79%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
7unicorns
2015median founding year
80kcombined LinkedIn audience
37%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Environment companies in North Brabant

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1taylor
Manufacturer of solar PV modules
$9M31 mo agoSeries ARein Westerdijk
Co Founder
2017Webflowanime.jscore-js+16—1 award
2Solarge
Provider of solar panel installation services
$3M14 mo agoSeed—2018WordPressMySQLPHP+305 patents
Tapered photovoltaic panel designs enhancing light capture and module efficiency
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3Sealeau
Converts brine into fresh water and valuable minerals
$3M71 mo agoFunding RaisedDimitris Xevgenos
CEO
2015———
4IBIS Power
Small scale wind power solutions developer
$2M136 mo agoFunding Raised—2012Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+2127 patents
Wind energy conversion and renewable power generation system technologies
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5Scholt Energy
Developer of large scale solar energy power projects
$533K104 mo agoFunding Raised—2005UmbracoYouTubeMicrosoft ASP.NET+11——
6MicroLAN
Provider of water quality monitoring system
$528K71 mo agoFunding RaisedJoep Appels
Founder & Managing Director
2003———
7Searious Business
Provider of plastic waste recycling services
$190K47 mo agoFunding Raised—2016Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+13——
8Van Gansewinkel
Waste management and energy supplying company
$42K117 mo agoAcquired—2007———

Top 12 Environment companies in North Brabant

#1
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2018 · 34 employees
$3Mraised
▾

Provider of solar panel installation services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 9.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Seed—
  • Aug 2024Seed—
  • Apr 2024Seed$3M
Investors
phase2.earth, Orchard Participations
Tech stack
Automatic.CssBricksCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContentsquareCookieyes
#2
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2017 · 15 employees
$8.8Mraised
▾

Manufacturer of solar PV modules

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Series A$8.8M
Founders & team
Rein WesterdijkCo FounderMichiel RoelofsCo-Founder
Investors
ABP Pensioenfonds, Rubio impact Ventures, BOM, 819 Capital Partners
Tech stack
Apexcharts.JsBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDatatables
#3
Funding Raised · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2015 · 3 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Developer of a seawater desalination system designed for efficient salty wastewater management and recovery of resources. The company specializes in designing and developing sustainable seawater desalination technology that converts saline wastewater into valuable products, helping clients to eliminate the problematic desalination brine effluent while recovering valuable minerals and metals

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$833.7K
  • Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$500.8K
  • Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$478.5K
  • Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$97.3K
Founders & team
Dimitris XevgenosCEO
Investors
Europa, Startupbootcamp, HighTechXL
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapElementorYoast Seo
#4
Funding Raised · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2012 · 14 employees
$1.6Mraised
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IBIS Power is a hardware developer in the domain of wind energy. The company manufactures two primary products, called the PowerNest and PowerRESPONSE. PowerNest is a roof-mounted structure with an internal turbine making use of smart aerodynamics to harness wind power up to a height of 20m. PowerRESPONSE is a decentralized energy solution for areas with zero-access to power which is mobile as well as self-deployable.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 5.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2015Grant (prize money)$1.6M
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
AngularCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#5
Funding Raised · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2016
$190.5Kraised
▾

Provider of plastic waste recycling services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 8.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$190.5K
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespaceStimulusPriority HintsHsts
#6
Funding Raised · Waalwijk, North Brabant · founded 2003
$528.5Kraised
▾

Provider of water quality monitoring system

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$359.6K
  • Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$168.9K
Founders & team
Joep AppelsFounder & Managing Director
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapContact Form 7Yoast Seo
#7
Funding Raised · Valkenswaard, North Brabant · founded 2005 · 260 employees
$533.2Kraised
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Developer of large scale solar energy power projects

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 13.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$407K
  • Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$126.2K
Investors
Europa
#8
Acquired · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2007 · 1326 employees
$42.4Kraised
▾

Van Gansewinkel offers waste collection, recycling, and cleaning services, along with generation of energy from waste feedstock. CVC and KKR merged the two companies they acquired, in 2007, Van Gansewinkel and AVR (a waste processing company) for Euro 2.2B. Van Gansewiknel was a PE portfolio of KKR.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2016Grant (prize money)$42.4K
Investors
Europa
#9
Deadpooled · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2013 · 3 employees
$20Kraised
▾

Developer of a water purification filter. The company's filter specializes in developing a water purification system or a filtering media for arsenic removal in drinking water, enabling clients to improve the quality of the drinking water by removing harmful elements.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2013Seed$20K
Investors
Startupbootcamp
#10
Seed · Geldrop, North Brabant · founded 2019
—raised
▾

Provider of fast, accurate, and quantitative surface particle measurements for cleanliness control.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. Renishaw Raman Spectroscopy) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Erik VermeulenCEO
Investors
Value Creation Capital
#11
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2020 · 11 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of plastic recycling services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Noiryon, TreMalin Plastics Industrial, Transmare Compounding B.V. and Broos Water) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Floris GerritsenCo-Founder & CTONigel VisserCo-Founder
Investors
Fin + Tech, HighTechXL
Tech stack
Animate.CssBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-Js
#12
Funding Raised · Sprundel, North Brabant · founded 1998
—raised
▾

Provider of water purification services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 6.1% of this cohort's audience
Founders & team
Johan OssenblokFounder & MD
Investors
Europa

Funding & investor landscape

$17.1Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
15disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa7 rounds
BOM4 rounds
HighTechXL2 rounds
Startupbootcamp2 rounds
819 Capital Partners1 rounds
ABP Pensioenfonds1 rounds
EIT InnoEnergy1 rounds
Fin + Tech1 rounds
Gilde1 rounds
Jacobs Elektro1 rounds

Notable founders

Rein Westerdijk
Co Founder · taylor
Michiel Roelofs
Co-Founder · taylor
Dimitris Xevgenos
CEO · Sealeau
Joep Appels
Founder & Managing Director · MicroLAN
Erik Vermeulen
CEO · Fastmicro
Floris Gerritsen
Co-Founder & CTO · Veridis
Nigel Visser
Co-Founder · Veridis
Johan Ossenblok
Founder & MD · Pure Water Group
Prism market signals · Netherlands · country-scoped Prism corpus, 190,112 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Environment coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Netherlands

How research on Environmental Monitoring is moving in the Netherlands

A read on the academic research around Environmental Monitoring — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 374 Netherlands-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201120202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 17% → 36% across 2011–2026.
top research entities
  • Wageningen University & Research58
  • Delft University of Technology41
  • Deltares32
  • Utrecht University28
  • Joint Research Centre23
leading researchers
Anabella Ferral · Michal Shimoni · Tim van Emmerik · Alba Germán · Hommersom, Annelies · Alikas, Krista · Peter Behnisch · Lammert Kooistra
▲ Breakthroughs53 · 14%
▲ 13%→15% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations77% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (13%→15% of field), led by European union.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • European union1→5
  • Aquatic ecosystem1→4
Newly emergingBiodiversity 0→6
Landmark Multimedia Modeling of Engineered Nanoparticles with SimpleBox4nano: Model Definition and Evaluation · 200 cites
◆ Advancements119 · 32%
▲ 13%→31% share
▲2.4× share momentum0 median citations70% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (13%→31% of field), led by Water quality.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Water quality1→12
  • Biodiversity1→9
  • Environmental resource management3→8
  • Environmental planning1→5
  • Sampling (signal processing)1→5
Newly emergingEnvironmental impact assessment 0→7 · Eutrophication 0→6 · Water resources 0→5
Landmark Combining Satellite Data and Community-Based Observations for Forest Monitoring · 53 cites
▼ Concerns112 · 30%
▼ 38%→30% share
▼0.8× share momentum0 median citations71% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (38%→30% of field), led by Biodiversity.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Biodiversity2→11
  • Context (archaeology)1→8
  • Ecosystem1→6
  • Environmental resource management5→9
  • Contamination1→5
Newly emergingWorkflow 0→5 · Environmental impact assessment 0→5 · Groundwater 0→5
Landmark Emerging pollutants in the environment: A challenge for water resource management · 1,081 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Netherlands

Where environmental monitoring 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.

Delft84 · +0.28
Hot · Water qualityAdvancing · European unionOpportunity · BiodiversityConcern · Deliverable
Wageningen66 · +0.23
Hot · AgricultureAdvancing · European unionOpportunity · PollutionConcern · Pesticide
Groningen53 · +0.44
Hot · Mediterranean climateAdvancing · Wireless sensor networkOpportunity · Vegetation (pathology)
Utrecht31 · +0.19
Hot · Environmental healthAdvancing · Marine Strategy Framework DirectiveOpportunity · Drainage basin
Nijmegen22 · +0.14
Hot · Environmental chemistryOpportunity · BiodiversityConcern · Environmental health
Leiden20 · +0.26
Hot · Citizen scienceAdvancing · Environmental engineeringOpportunity · MetadataConcern · Biodiversity
Amsterdam19 · +0.19
Opportunity · Microplastics
Rotterdam9 · +0.14
Opportunity · Greenhouse gas

Common questions

How many Environment companies are there in North Brabant, Netherlands?
Radar tracks 45 indexable Environment companies headquartered in North Brabant, Netherlands that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands?
The Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list have raised a combined $17.1M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Environment company in North Brabant, Netherlands?
taylor is the highest-funded Environment company in North Brabant, Netherlands, with $8.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands are funded?
9 of the 45 Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Environment unicorns are there in North Brabant, Netherlands?
None of the Environment companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Brabant, Netherlands Environment companies?
The most active investors in North Brabant, Netherlands Environment companies on this list include Europa, BOM, HighTechXL, Startupbootcamp, 819 Capital Partners.
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