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Nascent Ventures
Venture capital · Netherlands · Europe
Nascent Ventures is an active seed fund that creates and builds high-tech startups based on technologies from Dutch research institutes and universities. It sets up the startup company itself, provides pre-seed and seed capital, and its fund manager acts as CEO during the first years.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsnanotechnologyphotonicsadvanced materialsmechatronicsembedded systemsdeep tech
Your fit with Nascent Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsNascent Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 16 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 71% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (35%), Cybersecurity (9%) and Legal & Compliance (9%). 60% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Variant, 1kx and Andreessen Horowitz.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Nascent Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 7% |
| Seed | 71% |
| Series A | 21% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 9 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 11 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 78% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 35% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Legal & Compliance | 9% | 2% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 6% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Variant | 3 |
| 1kx | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Castle Island Ventures | 2 |
| Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland | 2 |
| Lattice | 2 |
| ParaFi Capital | 2 |
| Semantic Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- 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 togetherCompare Nascent Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Nascent Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Jul 2026 |  tenor.financetenor.finance | Seed |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Nascent Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Nascent Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company builds high-performance detectors for various scientific applications, including imaging and characterization of neutrons, photons, X-rays, and electrons. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Birch Hill provides credit products and asset management services, including onchain credit and private credit offerings for institutions. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Feb 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Coop Records operates a music platform where users can buy and sell tracks and coins related to music artists. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Sept 2025Round | Funding round | |
| Cordant provides a command center platform for financial operations to monitor and manage transactions, compliance, and partnerships. | FintechFintech | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides on-chain lending, yield, and trading services in one system. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Ground provides a cash management platform for stablecoins | Fintech | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a customer rewards platform that helps brands drive sales without offering discounts. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Kleva provides voice agents with AI for debt collection services | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Ligero provides private payments infrastructure for businesses to move money, using zero-knowledge cryptography for compliant and secure transactions. | Fintech | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Morpho provides open onchain lending infrastructure where users and institutions can lend, borrow, and build financial products through its lending markets and vaults. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Jul 2022Seed | Funding round | |
| Onnes Technologies enables the application of quantum sensors for quantum metrology applications in low temperature and low vibration level environments. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Project Eleven provides digital asset custody and blockchain infrastructure security solutions | FintechCybersecurity | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Pruv Finance provides infrastructure for real-world asset tokenization, enabling issuance, distribution, and DeFi integration. | FintechDeveloper Tools | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Rapid Photonics develops and produces photonic integrated circuits using a patented technology called DEpicT | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides satellite-based confidential compute and space internet infrastructure | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| tenor.financetenor.finance · Canada | Tenor offers a global lending platform where institutions can access and trade stablecoin-powered credit markets. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round |
| Vitrotem automates graphene liquid cell assembly to bring high-resolution liquid phase TEM imaging within reach in research. | Legal & ComplianceHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a secure messaging platform for people and agents with end-to-end encryption and native SDKs for various platforms. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2021Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nascentventures.nl
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 31 Aug 2021
- Companies checked
- 18
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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