Marcel Zijp grew up on a farm and still runs a mushroom farm in São Paulo, Brazil, which shapes his focus on keeping farming a viable livelihood and finding solutions that work for both farmers and the food system, like grass-to-protein projects that still support the same milk output. He also leads Rooted, an initiative focused on regenerative food and healthy soil, and describes his broader outlook as seeing food as "the new medicine," connecting agriculture, health, and everyday lifestyles.
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Brightlands Venture Partners
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Health, Food & Ag, Climate, Biotech, Medtech
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Seed - Series A
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€250K–€2M
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Brightlands Venture Partners grew out of an effort to build a startup ecosystem in Limburg from scratch starting in 2004, and it still organizes its funds around specific regional campuses and a narrow set of deep-science areas—health, agrifood, and renewable chemistry—rather than acting as a general-purpose VC. It also measures its impact using a quantitative scoring method (Upright) across its funds, often invests alongside larger industrial companies in fields like chemical supply chains, and has produced exits to companies such as BASF, Medtronic, Lonza, Fresenius Kabi, and LyondellBasell.
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