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Graduate Ventures
Venture capital · Netherlands · Europe
Graduate Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2021 by entrepreneurial alumni of TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC. It invests early-stage capital in founders from the Netherlands and supports them with an alumni network and hands-on support.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechEducation
In its own wordsalumni networkuniversity spin-outsearly-stagenetherlandsdeep techquantum
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Or find every investor that fitsGraduate Ventures lists 64 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (24%), Healthcare & Biotech (20%) and Education (16%). 95% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland, InnovationQuarter and LUMO Labs.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Graduate Ventures, 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 Graduate Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 64. 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 | 13% |
| Seed | 38% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 0 |
| '26 | 7 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 18% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 32th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 20% | 15% |
| Education | 16% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland | 3 |
| InnovationQuarter | 3 |
| LUMO Labs | 3 |
| ASIF Ventures | 2 |
| Brabant Development Agency (BOM) | 2 |
| FORWARD.one | 2 |
| Volve Capital | 2 |
| 1984 Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers64100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland
Compare Graduate Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Graduate Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 28 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 8 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 5 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Graduate Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Graduate Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
64 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back to Battery recovers critical raw materials from lithium-ion batteries | Climate & EnergySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Bright Bird provides mental health support solutions for businesses | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carapace Biopolymers develops and provides biobased and biodegradable coatings for seeds and fertilizers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Clickdrive is a platform that connects users with driving schools and instructors in the Netherlands. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Constellate Proteomics reads antibody samples one molecule at a time, analyzing protein quality from a single drop of crude supernatant in minutes instead of weeks. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Crescent Med develops a wearable dual-camera system for surgeons to share their expertise and perspective with others. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Decipher is changing how people understand and access their healthcare benefits. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Deep Breath turns continuous, high-resolution vital sign data into trusted infrastructure for monitoring clinical workflows, supporting research, and validating AI in real-world critical care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| DuckDuckGoose delivers groundbreaking technology to detect deepfakes and prevent digital identity fraud | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Eddy Grid optimizes batteries, solar panels, and windmills with smart algorithms and balances the energy grid through customer connections. | EducationEducation | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Edups offers a realistic and safe learning environment where students can develop and perfect their prescribing skills. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Engyon develops audit software for accountants and auditors | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Eyk provides a marketing data platform for e-commerce profit and growth | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company brews proteins using fermentation. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Fiducial enables platform builders to develop autonomous defence autonomy with deployable computer vision software | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FrostByte designs and manufactures electronics for quantum computers | Robotics & Hardware | May 2026Seed | Portfolio page | |
| GEHECO develops a new method to place the wells of ground-bounded heat pumps | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Geobirds uses AI to unveil the network of shipping locations and their shipping behaviour, so logistics service providers can optimise utilisation, reduce costs and grow. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides waste data automation services for compliance and circularity goals | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| GetFocus provides technology decision intelligence for R&D and innovation leaders | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- graduate.nl
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 Jun 2025
- Companies checked
- 64
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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