Investors / Netherlands / Carduso Capital
Carduso Capital
Venture capital · Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Carduso Capital is a venture capital company that invests in start-ups and initiatives around the knowledge centres of the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). It provides capital alongside strategic knowledge, proactive management support and its international network, and runs an internal seed facility with adjusted investment dimensions.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordslife sciencesenergysustainabilitytechnologyuniversity spinouts
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Or find every investor that fitsCarduso Capital lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (50%), Industrial & Manufacturing (21%) and Climate & Energy (7%). 56% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside Blue Horizon, Creative Destruction Lab and Future Food Fund.
No funding round on record names Carduso Capital yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Carduso Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 11. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 50% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 21% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 7% | 1% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers982%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company218%
- 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.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Carduso Capital 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 sitePortfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BioBTX develops technology to produce BTX from biomass and plastics for a circular world. | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| BIORON is a premium manufacturer and global distributor of molecular biological and diagnostic products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BUKU provides unlimited access to a digital library of educational textbooks for an affordable price. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| CC Diagnostics is developing a PCR-based reagent kit for the detection of cervical cancer. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Deam provides an AI-native Office suite that integrates with PowerPoint to help teams create slides and presentations more efficiently | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Pulmotech sells medical devices, including spirometers, oximeters, and sleep therapy equipment. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| PureIMS develops and produces inhalers, including a pre-filled dry powder inhaler called Cyclops | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| QDI Systems develops and manufactures quantum dot image sensors for short-wave infrared and X-ray domains | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| VRelax develops a Virtual Reality-app that helps to reduce stress, anxiety and pain. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cardusocapital.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 11
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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