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TNO Ventures
Corporate VC · Netherlands · Europe
TNO Ventures is the tech transfer arm of TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. It commercialises TNO research by creating spin-off companies, granting licences to established organisations, and taking tech participations in scale-ups.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdeep techcleantechmedtechaiphotonicsquantum computing
Your fit with TNO Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsTNO Ventures lists 14 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 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 (29%), Healthcare & Biotech (21%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (17%). 86% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside Brabant Development Agency (BOM), Invest-NL and 808 Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name TNO 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 roundTNO Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 17% |
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 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 70th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 49th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 21% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Developer Tools | 4% | 0% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| Fintech | 4% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Brabant Development Agency (BOM) | 2 |
| Invest-NL | 2 |
| 808 Ventures | 1 |
| ACET Capital | 1 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
| Access Ventures | 1 |
| Atlantic Bridge | 1 |
| Coalition Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers14100%
- 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 Brabant Development Agency (BOM)
Compare TNO 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 TNO Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 Jan 2026 | Round | |
| 13 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for TNO Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in TNO Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
14 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerosense develops sensors that detect bird and bat collisions with wind turbines and predict turbine faults in real time | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AIKON Health develops and provides a personalized heart failure management system using a wearable monitoring device and digital health solutions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aiosyn develops and applies AI algorithms to analyze tissue images for research and diagnostic purposes | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aircision develops terrestrial Free-Space Optics systems for reliable and untraceable communication | Developer ToolsCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Airhive removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and supplies pure CO2 for various uses, including carbon credits and industrial operations | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| AMSYSTEMS develops and manufactures a multi-laser exposure unit for resin printers. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AnGard Microwave develops and builds high-power microwave systems for defence against drone swarms | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides data and insights into human movement in the field of sports using wearable insoles and algorithms. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Equal1 develops and ships rack-mounted quantum computers that can be integrated into existing infrastructure alongside classical CPUs and GPUs. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Fortaegis develops a secure compute architecture for AI and quantum computing | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Keen Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and defence companies across Europe. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Keiron develops and provides precision stencil-free solder paste printing technology for the SMT industry | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Nearfield Instruments develops and delivers advanced metrology systems for the nano-electronics industry | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Jun 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Touchwaves develops and provides haptic feedback and bio-sensing technology for various applications, including healthcare, defense, and sports. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tno.nl
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 14
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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