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Brightlands Venture Partners
Venture capital · Geleen, Netherlands · Europe
Brightlands Venture Partners is a fund manager that invests in innovative companies addressing societal challenges in health, agrifood, and renewable chemistry. It manages four venture capital funds with over two decades of investing and €120M in committed capital across 50 portfolio companies.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordshealthagrifoodrenewable chemistrymedtechhealthtechcircularity
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Or find every investor that fitsBrightlands Venture Partners lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (45%), AI & Machine Learning (25%) and Consumer (8%). 73% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside NV Industriebank LIOF, Creative Destruction Lab and Future Food Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Brightlands Venture Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Brightlands Venture Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 30. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 25% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 79th | 45% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| NV Industriebank LIOF | 15 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Future Food Fund | 2 |
| Invest-NL | 2 |
| Sofinnova Partners | 2 |
| TechVision Fonds | 2 |
| 4impact capital | 1 |
| Aglaia Oncology Funds | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers30100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 45% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with NV Industriebank LIOF
Compare Brightlands Venture Partners head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Brightlands Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 14 May 2025 | Series B Led |
Round details for Brightlands Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Brightlands Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aliform is a medical device startup company that makes products for skin surgery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides supply chain traceability software for faster compliance | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Corporis Medical is a medical device company dedicated to developing and commercializing innovative healthcare solutions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cristal Therapeutics focuses on its unique and proprietary copper free click chemistry CliCr | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CuroTis introduces a platform technology for regenerative medicine that grows body-own tissue in the human body at the location where it is needed | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EnzyTag develops improved synthetic routes for the manufacture of peptide-based new chemical entities, small proteins and peptide-containing conjugates using the peptiligase technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Grassa transforms grass into high-value ingredients for animal feed and human food using its technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Gravity Gardens develops seed technology for stronger and more resilient crops without chemicals. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company helps unlock tasty and functional ingredients from food industry side streams | Food & Agriculture | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company predicts post-operative infection risk with AI for hospitals | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Hy2Care develops a hydrogel implant for enabling cartilage recovery | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Kipster is a company that produces eggs and prioritizes animal welfare and environmental sustainability | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Matisse Pharmaceuticals BV is a biopharmaceutical clinical stage company developing a product portfolio of safe and innovative therapies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nano4Imaging develops and provides MRI-compatible devices and navigation software for interventional radiology procedures. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Neuroplast develops regenerative therapies harnessing the body's innate healing capacity. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Niostem Health develops and sells a wearable device that uses bioelectrical stimulation to promote hair regrowth. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Noah Labs Health develops and provides a telemonitoring system for heart failure detection and patient care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Novenda Technologies develops and manufactures 3D printing solutions for specialized applications, including dental products. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Pectcof addresses the problem of agricultural waste of the coffee chain using its proprietary green extraction technology. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| PL BioScience develops and sells human platelet lysate products for cell culture | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- bvp.capital
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 30
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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