Navus Ventures B.V. (“Navus”) is a venture capital firm aimed at high-tech and sustainable start-ups and scale-ups, part of a family office and linked to Lely (farming innovators). Founded in 2013, Navus has invested across a range of sectors and is now primarily focused on the ongoing transitions in food and energy. As a family funded VC, Navus is not subject to entry or exit pressure, invests both in typical VC setup as well as for longer holding periods and has simple governance allowing for quick decisions. Navus draws from the knowledge and network of the Lely family business, with a longstanding history in high-tech product development and successful market entry of innovations (but is not linked to the Lely business strategy). Our approach is hands-on and pragmatic, as an independent fund we can respond well to changing situations and act quickly and we support our portfolio as active shareholders with short communication lines to support management on strategic and operational matters. We value transparency and honesty in our relationship with start-ups and fellow investors.
Employees: 1-10
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed
Portfolio 26
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 30.08.2023 | Invesdor N... | invesdor.com | $8.99M | Finland, M... |
| 30.08.2023 | InfraCore ... | infracore-company.com | - | Netherland... |
| 17.06.2023 | Blue Radix | blue-radix.com | - | Netherland... |
| 17.06.2023 | Volstora | volstora.com | - | Netherland... |
| 16.03.2023 | Lgem | syn... | lgem.com | - | Netherland... |
| 10.03.2023 | Agurotech | agurotech.com | $3.94M | Netherland... |
| 05.01.2023 | Saia Agrob... | saia-agrobotics.com | - | Netherland... |
| 24.10.2022 | Ekobot | ekobot.se | - | Sweden, Vä... |
| 09.10.2022 | Borg Energ... | borg.energy | - | - |
| 09.10.2022 | Zenon Ener... | zenon.energy | - | Netherland... |
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Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.04.2025 | Cosaic: A New Era in Plant-Based Ingredients | In the bustling world of food technology, Cosaic emerges as a beacon of innovation. Formerly known as Cultivated Biosciences, this Swiss startup is reshaping the landscape of plant-based ingredients. Their flagship product, Cosaic Neo, is n... |
| 03.04.2025 | Cultivated Biosciences Rebrands to Cosaic, Introduces Unique Yeast-Based Ingredient | Cultivated Biosciences, a Swiss producer of yeast-based ingredient solutions, has announced that it is rebranding to Cosaic and launching a new product. The name is intended to evoke the word “mosaic”, bringing to mind the blending of sever... |
| 22.10.2024 | Danish agtech FarmDroid secures €10.5 million for its autonomous, solar-powered agricultural robot | FarmDroid, a startup helping farmers and plant breeders reduce their costs of manual labor, secured €10.5 million investment to accelerate the expansion of its autonomous, solar-powered agricultural robot in the conventional market The fund... |
| 13.03.2024 | Dutch startup 1-2-Taste closes seed round, aims to simplify ingredient sourcing for F&B companies | Read this article in: Netherlands-based 1-2-Taste, an online B2B food ingredient platform, announced that it has closed its Seed investment round. The funding amount remains undisclosed. Rotterdam-based Icos Capital led the round with suppo... |
| 06.03.2024 | $5 Million to bring yeast cream to the market | The market for dairy alternatives is expanding worldwide, valued at $12 billion in 2023 and projected to reach $34 billion by 2033. These alternatives increasingly appeal to health- and environmentally-conscious consumers, although two-thi... |
| 06.03.2024 | Cultivated Biosciences raises $5m seed round to expand ‘yeast cream’ platform for alt dairy | Swiss startup Cultivated Biosciences has raised a $5 million seed round to scale up a yeast fermentation platform it claims can dramatically improve the mouthfeel and performance of alt dairy products and help firms achieve cleaner labels. ... |
| 24.05.2023 | Dutch startup Blue Radix secures funding to offer algorithm-based solutions for greenhouses | Rotterdam-based Blue Radix, a specialist in Autonomous Growing and creates automated intelligence for daily decisions and actions in greenhouses, announced on Tuesday, May 23, that it has raised fresh funding. The amount, however, remains u... |
| 07.03.2023 | Amsterdam’s Agurotech bags €1.5M to fuel data-driven arable farming | Amsterdam-based Agurotech, a startup that offers farming solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has raised €1.5M in a Series A round of funding. Agurotech, which specialises in data-driven arable farming, says it will use the funds to take... |
| 22.02.2023 | Farm software startups in Asia Pacific raised more funding in 2022 despite downturn | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze food and agriculture technology investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to be one of the ... |
| 29.09.2021 | This Week in Agrifoodtech: Gorillas raises $950m, New Age Meats nets $25m & more | The past seven days saw major funding hauls for German food delivery startup Gorillas, US cultivated meat maker New Age Meats, and Canadian precision ag platform Semios. Elsewhere, AFN examined data that suggests that agriculture is far fro... |
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