Best Environment Tech Companies in North Brabant, Netherlands
The 45 best Environment Tech companies in North Brabant, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Lightyear.
Our analysis of 241 Environment Tech companies
$25.6b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Environment Tech companies in North Brabant
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightyear Developer of solar charging systems for electric vehicles and modules | $206M | 32 mo ago | Series B | Bonna Newman Chief Executive Officer | 2016 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceTailwind CSS+15 | — | — |
| 2 | Carbyon Developer of direct air capture technology for carbon dioxide removal | $28M | 13 mo ago | Series A | Hans Neve Founder and CEO | 2019 | Sentrystyled-componentsReact+7 | — | — |
| 3 | Dazzletek Develops a lighting control system for building and street lighting | $24M | 230 mo ago | Late Stage | Peter Adema Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Ioniqa Developer of technology that upcycles all types and colors of PET | $15M | 30 mo ago | Series B | — | 2009 | — | 7 patents Advanced PET chemical recycling: depolymerization, catalyst recovery, and monomer crystallization processes. | — |
| 5 | Renewable Iron Fuel Technology Developer of iron fuel technology for industrial heat decarbonization | $14M | 5 mo ago | Series B | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 41 patents Iron-based solid fuel production and combustion systems for power generation | 1 award |
| 6 | VitalFluid Developer of plasma activated water technology for sustainable crop protection | $8M | 28 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | WebflowVimeoGSAP+18 | 21 patents Plasma-activated water generation for agricultural fertilisation and disinfection | — |
| 7 | Incooling Developer of next-generation two-phase cooled servers. | $4M | 43 mo ago | Seed | Helena Samodurova Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 8 | TIBO Energy Provider of energy monitoring and smart grid controlling solutions 48Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Tech top 44%Moat top 48% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Techtop 44% Moattop 48% Fundingbottom 45% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 22% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $3M | 13 mo ago | Seed | Jeroen Althusius Co-Founder | 2022 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+30 | — | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in North Brabant
#1
Series B · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2020 · 36 employees$14Mraised▾
Developer of iron fuel technology for industrial heat decarbonization. The company provides an alternative to fossil fuels for industrial heat. It offers a circular energy carrier using fine iron powder. The iron powder releases high-temperature heat without carbon emissions. After combustion, the remaining iron oxide is regenerated using hydrogen. The company delivers clean, circular, and reusable energy solutions.
- Mar 2026Series B$96.6M
- Mar 2026Grant (prize money)$35.7M
- Oct 2024Series A$12M
- Oct 2022Seed$2M
#2
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2019 · 25 employees$27.7Mraised▾
Developer of direct air capture technology for carbon dioxide removal. The company focuses on creating a low-cost solution for harvesting carbon from the atmosphere. The technology aims to transform the global energy and materials economy. It supplies circular carbon dioxide for controlled environment agriculture and sustainable fuels. The company plans to scale up manufacturing to supply systems globally.
- Jul 2025Series A—
- Sep 2024Series A$16.9M
- Apr 2022Angel$1M
#3
Series B · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2016 · 697 employees$205.6Mraised▾
Developer of solar charging systems for electric vehicles and modules. The company focuses on creating systems that contribute to sustainable mobility. It designs for independence and convenience, enabling electric vehicles to drive off-grid. The company aims to bring clean mobility to the world through scalable technology.
- Dec 2023Series B—
- Feb 2023Series B$8.6M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Sep 2022Series B$81M
#4
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2022$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of energy monitoring and smart grid controlling solutions. It provides Digital Twin technology solution for mapping energy management. It also offers monitoring and smart control solutions to manage assets such as heat pumps, charging stations and battery storage.
- Jun 2025Seed—
- Jan 2024Seed$3.3M
#5
Series B · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2009 · 48 employees$15.3Mraised▾
Developer of technology that upcycles all types and colors of PET. The technology depolymerizes plastic polymers using a solution to dissolve the molecular structure. The resulting raw material is identical to plastics produced from oil. The material is suitable for creating new, clear, food-safe PET bottles.
- Jan 2024Series B—
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$716.4K
- May 2021Series A$12.1M
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$13.7M
#6
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2014 · 26 employees$7.6Mraised▾
Developer of plasma activated water technology for sustainable crop protection. It provides growers with an alternative to chemical fungicides by developing technology to produce Plasma Activated Water (PAW) on-site. The technology uses water, air, and electricity as inputs to create a solution that protects crops from fungal diseases without leaving harmful residues. The company's system is designed to be effective, easy to integrate, and cost-efficient for greenhouse, orchard, and open field growers.
- Apr 2024Series A$5.3M
- Nov 2023Seed—
- Jan 2022Seed$2.3M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$59K
#7
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2019 · 15 employees$3.8Mraised▾
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- Jan 2023Seed$3.8M
#8
Late Stage · Breda, North Brabant$24Mraised▾
Develops a lighting control system for building and street lighting applications. The system includes a lighting control module (installed in the luminaire) called Mira, a gateway called Antares, and a software control module called Regulus. The Regulus module connects to Google Maps (or an image of a plant/building) to keep track of all lights in a network and can control lighting systems based on lighting requirements (requirements sent to it by connected light sensors in the luminaire location).
#9
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2014 · 63 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of product oil
- Sep 2021Series A—
#10
Deadpooled · s Hertogenbosch, North Brabant · founded 2020—raised▾
Koffiechase is a provider of a smart solution to convert coffee to biomass briquettes. The company offers a smart technology solution that helps to develop an alternative product for the gas infrastructure with the recycling process of coffee grounds, reducing the CO2 emissions and gas consumption.
- Sep 2020Seed—
#11
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2015 · 4 employees—raised▾
Provider of water treatment system solutions. It provides a multi-effect distillation solution where a vacuum allows the system to be driven by low-grade heat input.
- Mar 2017Seed—
#12
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2009 · 34 employees—raised▾
Provider of LED lighting products. The company provides floodlights, luminaires, and lighting control management systems (LCMS) and software in-house. The products are used in sports facilities and airports, industrial, parking, ports, railway, warehouses, and other areas. Their wireless LCMS can be used to switch on/off the lights and increase/decrease the illumination levels.
- Jul 2015Series A—
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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.
- Wageningen University & Research58
- Delft University of Technology41
- Deltares32
- Utrecht University28
- Joint Research Centre23
- European union1→5
- Aquatic ecosystem1→4
- Water quality1→12
- Biodiversity1→9
- Environmental resource management3→8
- Environmental planning1→5
- Sampling (signal processing)1→5
- Biodiversity2→11
- Context (archaeology)1→8
- Ecosystem1→6
- Environmental resource management5→9
- Contamination1→5
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.
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.