Best Sustainability Tech Companies in North Brabant, Netherlands
The 55 best Sustainability 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 293 Sustainability Tech companies
$38.4b in tracked funding; 83% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sustainability Tech companies in North Brabant
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AirBliss+® Provider of air purifier mask | — | — | Funding Raised | Adel Arigue CEO | 17 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Aruna Lighting LED light solutions for horticulture, poultry farming, and aquaculture | — | — | Unfunded | Jeroen Van Velzen Co-Founder & Managing Director | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Autarco Group BV Solar power system monitoring and project designing software provider | — | — | Unfunded | Daniel Horan CEO | — | TYPO3 CMSPHPApache HTTP Server+16 | — | — |
| 4 | Beyond Eyes Provider of tech-enabled facility management solutions | — | — | Unfunded | Heijmans Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Biosenz Lab-on-chip device for infectious diseases | — | — | Deadpooled | Johan Oosterheert Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | BlueHIQ Renewable energy installation and monitoring solution provider | — | — | Deadpooled | Julia Jameson Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | ClimAd Technology Developer of smart window films | — | — | Unfunded | Guofu Zhou Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Community Solar CrowdFunding for solar panels and installation | — | — | Deadpooled | Jeroen Saeijs Owner | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Sustainability 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
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2019$17.6Mraised▾
Provider of in vitro diagnostic platforms for antibiotic testing. It offers diagnostic solutions to support doctors in making informed treatment decisions for bacterial infections. The flagship product, KAIROS, is a direct from sample device that provides rapid results, enabling healthcare professionals to administer correct antibiotics promptly. It aims to enhance patient outcomes and eliminate the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria by streamlining the diagnostic process.
- Jan 2026Seed$17.5M
- Jan 2026Grant (prize money)—
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$80.9K
#3
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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
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
#8
Series A · Tilburg, North Brabant · founded 2013 · 10 employees$8.3Mraised▾
Protinhi Therapeutics is an early stage company. They are developing proprietary technology and compounds, targeting diseases via protease inhibition. The company is planning to develop therapies on viral threats such as dengue, zika, and chikengunea.
- May 2023Grant (prize money)$8.3M
- Feb 2019Series A—
#9
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2022$2.2Mraised▾
Developer of regenerative materials for women health. The company focuses on providing a revolutionary synthetic, degradable biomaterial for personalized breast reconstruction and regeneration.
- Dec 2023Seed$1.5M
- Nov 2023Seed$720.2K
#10
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2019 · 15 employees$3.8Mraised▾
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- Jan 2023Seed$3.8M
#11
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).
#12
Funding Raised · Veldhoven, North Brabant · founded 2009 · 21 employees$9.7Mraised▾
Nemo Healthcare is a developer of electrophysiological monitoring sensors for the feto-maternal devices. The device PUREtrace directly monitors the uterine activity, tracking the electrical muscle activity of the uterus for fetal monitoring. The devices have multi surface-electrode Graphium electrode patch, which is compatible with fetal monitors such as Philips 50-series, Philips Avalon FM30 en FM50, Neoventa Stan S21 / S31, and GE Healthcare Corometrics 250 series. The device has been FDA 510(k) cleared (K153262), non-invasively measuring the intrapartum uterine activity. The device received market clearance in Feb 2017.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$437.2K
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$4.6M
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$4.5M
- Jun 2015Grant (prize money)$55.5K
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How research on Climate Adaptation is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Climate Adaptation — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 408 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Deltares66
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam65
- Delft University of Technology64
- Wageningen University & Research59
- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education48
- Flood myth2→18
- Climate change3→13
- Flooding (psychology)1→9
- Climate risk1→6
- Flood myth18→52
- Climate change10→44
- Flooding (psychology)6→25
- Resilience (materials science)5→19
- Psychological resilience3→12
- Climate change11→70
- Resilience (materials science)1→20
- Vulnerability (computing)2→18
- Climate risk1→12
- Adaptation (eye)4→15
Where climate adaptation 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
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