Brightlands Venture Partners
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Brightlands Venture Partners is a venture capital fund manager investing in early-stage companies in health, agrifood, and renewable chemistry. It manages four funds and has backed over 50 companies since 2004.
Brightlands Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Netherlands, founded in 2004. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in health, agrifood and renewable chemistry. Its stated cheque size is €250k to €2M. €120M committed capital under management and 50 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in outlier founders building scalable companies that strengthen essential societal systems.”
— Brightlands Venture Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Netherlands
- Invests in
- Europe
- Cheque size
- €250k to €2M
- Founded
- 2004
- Assets under management
- €120M committed capital
- Portfolio
- 50 companies
Team, as Brightlands Venture Partners publishes it
- Carmel van den Berk Principal
- Casper Bruens Partner
- Kim de Boer Partner
- Lex Westbroek Investment Manager
- Luc Starmans Partner
- Marcel Kloosterman Partner
- Marcel Lubben Venture Partner
- Marcel Zijp Principal
- Pierpaolo Padula Principal
- Roel van Wegberg CFO & Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on bvp.capital. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 31 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- LIOF 18 shared companies: corporis-medical.com, cristaltherapeutics.com, psylaris.com, verdify.tech…
- Shift Invest 2 shared companies: kriya-materials.com, vertoro.com
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 2 shared companies: avlmotion.com, cristaltherapeutics.com
- Future Food Fund 2 shared companies: avlmotion.com, pectcof.com
- 8VC 1 shared company: medtronic.com
- Apple Tree Partners 1 shared company: medtronic.com
- Elevate Ventures 1 shared company: medtronic.com
- Giza Venture Capital 1 shared company: medtronic.com
- Hyde Park Angels 1 shared company: medtronic.com
- Menlo Ventures 1 shared company: medtronic.com
and 21 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Brightlands Venture Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://bvp.capital/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://bvp.capital/about/founded, aum
- https://bvp.capital/team/people
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