Nard Sintenie is a General Partner at Innovation Industries who serves as a prominent public advocate for Europe's leadership in complex hardware and deep-tech systems, regularly appearing as a go-to voice for high-tech systems and materials in the Dutch and Eindhoven ecosystem. He focuses on platform technologies in physics-heavy domains like photonics and semiconductor metrology, backing companies with fundamental technology advantages that have moved beyond prototypes to proven technical milestones and are ready for global scaling.
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Innovation Industries
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Deeptech / Hardware, Chips, Food & Ag, Energy, Medtech
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Pre-Seed - Series B+
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€1.5M - €2M
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Innovation Industries is a European deep-tech venture capital fund with ~€900m AUM that focuses on three specific verticals—Industrial Tech, MedTech, and Food & AgriTech—and employs an unusually science-heavy team with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, and engineering rather than typical business backgrounds. The fund can provide up to €50m per company and has led some of Europe's largest deep-tech financings, including Axelera AI's >$250m round, while serving as a cornerstone of the Dutch and Benelux high-tech ecosystem with backing from national actors like Invest-NL.
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