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Innovation Industries

09.10.2023

Company

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About Company
Innovation Industries is a Dutch deep tech venture capital firm that invests in high tech, medtech, and agri-foodtech companies.

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founded date

01.01.2017

Offices

Amsterdam, Pietersbergweg 285 1105 BM

Amsterdam, Pietersbergweg 285 1105 BM

Number of employees

IPO status

Private

Description

The firm takes a hands-on approach to investing, providing support and expertise to portfolio companies to strengthen their value proposition, improve time-to-market, and identify global strategic partnerships. They focus on both early-stage and late-stage startups that support environmental, social, and/or corporate governance goals. With over 20 years of experience and partnerships with key research institutes, Innovation Industries is a leading player in the Benelux region.
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Financials

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Date 
name 
Lead 
type 
Raised 
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People

Founders
4
Tom Schwarz
Tom Schwarz

Tom Schwarz

Tom Schwarz, partner, possesses seed and early stage investment and corporate experience. Tom was co-founder, general partner of Life Sciences Partners, a biotech venture capital fund with offices in Amsterdam, Munich and Boston, where he focused on early stage investments in the Benelux. Tom has served on the supervisory boards of many biotech companies and is a board member for Biopartner Start-up Ventures, and a former member of the EVCA High Tech Committee. In 1997, Tom sold U-Gene Research, a company he spun-out of the University of Utrecht, to Kendle, a leading US clinical research organization. Tom started his career at Interpharm, one of the largest pharmaceutical wholesalers in the Netherlands. He was trained as a pharmacist at the University of Utrecht.

current job

Innovation Industries
Innovation Industries

Tom Schwarz

Chris Sonnenberg
Chris Sonnenberg

Chris Sonnenberg

Chris Sonnenberg is a partner and co-founder of Innovation Industries. First an industrial engineer, Chris began his VC career as a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little, where he helped global tech companies develop and implement growth strategies. In 2010 he joined Parcom Capital, a leading private equity investor in The Netherlands with €1.5bn assets under management. In 2017, Chris co-founded Innovation Industries alongside partners Nard Sintenie, Harm de Vries, and Tom Schwarz. Chris is experienced in deal structuring and negotiating, due diligence, financing, corporate carve-outs, portfolio management, and exits. Chris also serves on the board of Cassini, a company that provides personalised, thorough and accurate corneal diagnostic solutions. He holds a Master’s degree (Honours) in Industrial Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

current job

Innovation Industries
Innovation Industries

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1

Chris Sonnenberg

Nard Sintenie
Nard Sintenie

Nard Sintenie

Nard (1970) gained in-depth business management experience in the international high-tech industry. He fulfilled several executive management positions at Philips, NXP and other (international) corporations in the Netherlands, USA and Asia. In all these roles, Nard led the establishment and growth of a high-tech business in an emerging market, sometimes preceded by a turn-around. During these years, Nard was frequently involved in major ‘merger & acquisition’ activities, which triggered his interest in venture capital. In 2008, Nard combined that interest with his international business management experience and co-founded the Twente Technology Fund (TTF). Next to his role at TTF, he headed several turn-around processes at technology companies as interim manager. Nard holds board positions at several high-tech companies.

current job

Innovation Industries
Innovation Industries

Nard Sintenie

Harm de Vries
Harm de Vries

Harm de Vries

Harm de Vries is a partner and co-founder of Innovation Industries. Harm started his career as an attorney in Amsterdam and as corporate counsel at the renowned life sciences investment firm, Life Sciences Partners (LSP). He worked with LSP’s co-founder, Tom Schwarz to launch and manage the Erasmus MC Biomedical Fund. Later on, Harm co-founded and managed two other early-stage VC funds: the Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam and the Twente Technology Fund. In 2017, Harm co-founded Innovation Industries alongside partners Nard Sintenie, Chris Sonnenberg and Tom Schwarz. In 2005, Harm authored the guidebook ‘Venture Capital Term Sheets’ (publ. by Reed Elsevier) to advance the VC sector in Europe and the Netherlands. In 2016, he followed up the piece with the full-length book ‘Venture Capital Deal Terms’ to give a clear understanding of the most frequently used practices, terms and conditions to those with less than extensive experience in venture capital transactions (including start-up companies and founders). He serves on the board of several technology companies. He is a member of the Technology Transfer Board at TNO and of the VC Committee of the Dutch Venture Capital Association. Harm holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Employee Profiles
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Tobias Ouwerkerk

Tobias Ouwerkerk

Investment Manager

Pleuni Hooijman

Pleuni Hooijman

Investment Manager

Margherita Marchetti

Margherita Marchetti

Investment Manager

Fien Hogewoning

Fien Hogewoning

Legal Counsel

Marielle de Macker

Marielle de Macker

Advisor Leadership & Human Capital

Vincent Kamphorst

Vincent Kamphorst

Investment Director

Tom van Vuren

Tom van Vuren

Investment Director

Sander Verbrugge

Sander Verbrugge

Partner

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