Successful exit for Innovation Industries: Danone acquires The Akkermansia Company
Amsterdam, 25 June 2025 – Innovation Industries, one of Europe’s leading deeptech investors, announces a successful exit of The Akkermansia Company, which has been acquired by Danone. Founded in 2016, the Akkermansia Company is based on joint research conducted at two European universities, UC Louvain and Wageningen University. Using state-of-the-art technology, scientists at The Akkermansia Company have…
Investor Day at Nearfield Instruments
Last week, Innovation Industries hosted its Investor Day at Nearfield Instruments in Rotterdam. This edition focused on the diversity of our portfolio and the multi-use potential of deeptech: technologies developed for one sector but relevant across many. Read more [Picture source: Innovation Industries on linkedin.com]
Salvia BioElectronics secures $60M in oversubscribed Series B to bring its pioneering migraine therapy to market
Series B funding round led by Innovation Industries, with participation from Invest-NL, EIC Fund, and existing investors Inkef, Panakès Partners, SHS Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and Thuja Capital. Read more [Source: salviabioelectronics.com]
Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant to develop Titania
Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant to develop Titania, a scalable AI inference chiplet for HPC and edge computing. The funding is supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and member states as part of the DARE Project. Read more
Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant
Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant to develop Titania, a scalable AI inference chiplet for HPC and edge computing. The funding is supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and member states as part of the DARE Project.This new funding follows the successful close of an oversubscribed $68 million Series B financing round, bringing the…
We are excited to announce our investment in Eindhoven-based PHOTON IP as part of the €4.75 million seed funding round!
With this financing, the team will accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of their breakthrough technology and bring their first products to market. Read more
Nederlandse koplopers in deeptech herdefiniëren chip- en AI-industrie
In het recente artikel van Het Financieele Dagblad worden twee baanbrekende bedrijven uitgelicht die de toekomst van chiptechnologie vormgeven: SMART Photonics en Axelera AI. Als grootste aandeelhouder in deze bedrijven zijn wij trots om onderdeel te kunnen zijn van hun groeireis. Lees verder
Thrilled to see Tom Van Mulken and the Microsure team making history with the world’s first robot-assisted supermicrosurgery
Tom’s pioneering research sparked the creation of Microsure, a spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology and Maastricht UMC+, and a portfolio company of Innovation Industries. Their MUSA robots are revolutionizing plastic, neuro, and eye surgeries. Read more
Battolyser Systems closes a €30 million Series A funding round
Battolyser Systems, the manufacturer of the world’s only electrolyser with battery functionality that enables the lowest cost green hydrogen, has raised €30 million in Series A funding from Global Cleantech Capital, Innovation Industries, and Invest-NL. Read more [Source: battolysersystems.com]
Our portfolio company Carbyon closed a €15.3 million Series A investment round
Carbyon has developed an innovative, patented technology to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Their ‘fast swing’ technology increases CO2 capacity and thereby significantly drives down unit, energy and project costs – all critical criteria to facilitate large scale deployment. Read more