Investors / Netherlands / Waterman Ventures
Waterman Ventures
Venture capital · Utrecht, Netherlands · Europe
Waterman Ventures is an investment firm based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, that invests in companies with proven technologies or innovations offering breakthrough improvements over the status quo. It actively engages its experience and network to help portfolio companies with team building, product-market fit, scaling production and growing revenues.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordstechnologyinnovationantennasgnssdrug deliverydeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsWaterman Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (35%), Healthcare & Biotech (29%) and AI & Machine Learning (12%). 80% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside FORWARD.one, InnovationQuarter and Aglaia Oncology Funds.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Waterman 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 Waterman Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 15. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 70th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 35% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 29% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 12% | 18% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 6% | 1% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1493%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company17%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| FORWARD.one | 2 |
| InnovationQuarter | 2 |
| Aglaia Oncology Funds | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Brabant Development Agency (BOM) | 1 |
| Draper Associates | 1 |
| ETF Partners | 1 |
| First Avenue Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Waterman 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 Waterman Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Dec 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Waterman Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Waterman Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company creates access to bone graft substitutes in orthobiologics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company designs and manufactures antennas for various applications, including IoT, 5G, and smart energy. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Ceradis develops and sells innovative and environmental friendly fungicides for crop protection purposes and fertilizers for plant nutrition purposes. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Fluitec provides solutions for condition monitoring, contamination control, and additive replenishment to keep equipment running smoothly | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| FutureChemistry supports customers in developing production processes for radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals by solving complex challenges in process development, engineering and implementation | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kropman provides various services including design, realization, maintenance, management, and exploitation of building installations | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Modra Pharmaceuticals seeks to improve the lives of cancer patients by transforming taxane treatment. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Neurophyxia is a clinical-stage drug development company developing novel drugs to reduce the deleterious effects of oxygen shortage in the brain. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Paques delivers biological wastewater and biogas treatment systems | Mobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| ProductIP provides a product compliance management system for companies placing non-food products on the EU, EEA, and UK markets. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Qualinx designs and develops semiconductor products, including GNSS and IoT receivers | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Dec 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| QuantWare develops and supplies quantum processors and related technologies | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Yellow Door Energy provides solar solutions and power purchase agreements to companies in the Middle East and South Africa | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- watermanventures.nl
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Dec 2025
- Companies checked
- 15
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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