Icos Capital lanceert vierde Climate Tech-fonds om duurzaamheid  

Icos Capital lanceert vierde Climate Tech-fonds om duurzaamheid in de  industrie te versnellen • Sinds de oprichting in 2005 beheert Icos Capital drie duurzaamheidsfondsen die investeren in bedrijven met toonaangevende innovaties die zowel financiële winst als duurzaamheidswinst hebben gerealiseerd • Met Icos Capital Growth Fund IV (Icos IV) investeert Icos Capital verder in klimaattechnologieën in vroege groeifase op het gebied … Read More

Icos Capital Launches Fourth Climate Tech Fund to Accelerate Sustainability in Industry

• Since its inception in 2005, Icos Capital has managed three funds in sustainability investing into companies with leading innovations that have realized both financial wins and sustainability gains • Icos Capital Growth Fund IV (Icos IV) will continue to invest in early growth stage climate technologies within food & agriculture, decarbonization, sustainable chemicals & materials and industry digitization • … Read More

Leading Agtech Company, eAgronom, Raises $5.5M to Support Farms’ Transition to Sustainable Practices

Robin Saluoks, CEO of eAgronom

The investment from Icos Capital, Soulmates Ventures and SmartCap Green Fund, will help eAgronom scale their digital tools to support the transition to sustainable farming.  eAgronom, the agtech startup helping farmers adopt more sustainable farming methods through digital tools and technology-based strategies, has announced it raised $5.5 million in a new funding round. Following the initial successes of its carbon credit program … Read More

Alternative Proteins Q&A with Thijs Bosch

Creating reliable, sustainable food systems for a growing population is an incredible and complex challenge. Currently, our food systems are hugely polluting and causing deforestation, biodiversity loss and large-scale carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Thijs Bosch sees the potential for alternative proteins to lead the way in the sustainable food transition. We talked to Thijs about his work at Cosun … Read More

Food Processing Innovation, PEF Technologies, Raises €1.5 M as they enter their next phase

PEF Technologies is developing an innovative technology that can preserve liquids at lower temperatures, without loss of taste, color and nutritional value. The technique uses up to 50% less energy than the current method of pasteurisation. Energiefonds Overijssel, Oost NL (from Innovatiefonds Overijssel) and Icos Capital are jointly investing €1.5 million in the further development of the technology and market … Read More

Holiferm Open Their First Commercial Biosurfactant Plant

4th February 2023, Wallasey UK: Holiferm’s first commercial biosurfactant was opened by the Mayor of Wirral, Jeff Green. Holiferm hosted an opening ceremony for its first commercial biosurfactant plant on the afternoon of 16th February. The plant at Wallasey is a first of its kind facility. It will initially be producing circa 1100 tonnes of our biosurfactant using our patented … Read More

NapiFeryn BioTech closes a €2.5 Million Investment round to launch its canola/rapeseed protein from large oil pressing side streams

30th January 2023, Amsterdam: NapiFeryn BioTech Sp. z o.o. (“NapiFeryn”), creator of unique, patented technology for obtaining rapeseed protein from side-streams of oil pressing, has closed a € 2.5 million investment, led by Icos Capital and joined by a Polish family office. Founded in Poland in 2014, NapiFeryn developed and patented a unique process to obtain rapeseed proteins (Raptein®) from … Read More