This LP is about to start deploying €600m into impact funds. Here’s what it’s looking for
26 May 2026
05:00
Invest-NL has backed more than 50 VC funds to the tune of around €550m, and is now gearing up for round two.
This year it has roughly €100m left to deploy across around 10 investments – and is separately building a fund of funds targeting north of €500m.
In this exclusive interview, we asked Arthur Soons, investment manager on the fund investments team, exactly what the investment giant is looking for.
This year it has roughly €100m left to deploy across around 10 investments – and is separately building a fund of funds targeting north of €500m.
In this exclusive interview, we asked Arthur Soons, investment manager on the fund investments team, exactly what the investment giant is looking for.
The Netherlands has ASML. It has decades of Philips spin-outs. It has world-class engineering talent flowing out of Eindhoven and Delft. What it doesn't have, according to Arthur Soons, is enough venture capital.
"We have the universities, we have the talent, we have the spin-outs," Soons tells Impact Loop. "We don't have the capital, and that's the gap we exist to close."