Accelerates innovation. Strengthens Brabant

— from energy and health to sustainable food and key technologies

Catalyzing Change

Shaping Brabant’s future

Energy, health, food, and technology – major challenges demand bold action. The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) stands alongside startups and scale-ups that are making a difference. With capital. With expertise. With our network.

We accelerate growth. Strengthen the innovation climate. Open international doors. And we attract companies to Brabant that add real value. Together, we’re building a strong, sustainable, and leading Brabant.

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Developing

Breakthroughs emerge from strong ecosystems

  • Ecosystem Development
  • Access to networks
  • Innovation coalitions
  • Development programs
  • Projects
  • Grants
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Investing

Funding for innovative entrepreneurs

  • Financing up to €5 million
  • Patient capital
  • Investments in over 40 funds
  • Extensive network of more than 150 co-investors
  • Fund assets approaching €1 billion
  • Venture Development programs
  • Financial instruments tailored to each lifecycle stage
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Internationalising

International expansion and innnovation collaboration

  • Explore new growth markets and regions
  • Identify international customers, partners, and suppliers
  • Discover the power of international innovation clusters
  • Collaborate with foreign companies in your region
  • Leverage Brabant’s international promotion

Six focus areas

We’re building a strong Brabant across four key themes: Sustainable Food, A Healthy Future, Climate-Neutral Energy, and Promising Key Technologies. To maximize impact, we focus our efforts.

Results

  • 14 new development projects
  • 38 foreign companies chose Brabant

Investments

  • €41 million invested in 2024 (63 deals)
  • €417 million committed capital
  • €625 million foreign direct investments
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Smart AR glasses applications are rapidly growing. Thanks to funding from BOM and other partners, we’re strengthening our position as a market and technology leader, while expanding our impact across consumer electronics markets.

Jan Matthijs ter Meulen
Co-founder and CEO Morphotonics
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Growing raspberries under solar panels presented additional challenges due to dual land use. BOM supported me in getting this project off the ground.

Maarten van Hoof
Owner Van Hoof Zachtfruit & Asperges
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We’re very pleased with our investors, including BOM, whose confidence enabled us to grow rapidly and convert market traction into sales. Within just two years, we delivered our first machine to a major electronics company.

Rob Hendriks
Co-founder and CEO Fonontech
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Creating a research plan is quite different from building a company based on a scientific idea. With support from BOM and its network, we were able to turn our ideas into a business plan. That was incredibly helpful in valorizing our scientific concepts.

Allard Kaptein
Co-founder Acerta Pharma
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Brabant invests over 14 million euros in cybersecurity

The province of Noord-Brabant and partners such as the Brabant Development Agency (BOM) are investing nearly 14.5 million euros in the Brabant House of Cyber (BHoC). This innovation coalition unites companies, education, and governments to achieve one goal: make Brabant companies digitally safer.
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SandGrain raises €13.5M Series A to scale hardware-anchored IoT security worldwide

Dutch deep-tech company SandGrain today announced the successful raise of €13.5 million in a Series A funding round. This investment will accelerate global expansion of SandGrain’s CyberRock solution, which delivers advanced security for IoT devices, focusing on key sectors such as industrial, critical infrastructure, and aerospace & defense. The round was led by Innovation Industries, with participation from Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), Invest-NL, and existing investor DeepTechXL.
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Smarter, more secure, more valuable: this is how the digital and circular manufacturing industry comes together

Yesterday, during the Circonnect network day 'Digital & Circular' in Utrecht, one central question was posed: How do we make the Dutch manufacturing industry smarter, more secure, and more valuable? The answer came with the launch of the new whitepaper 'Two Worlds Can Be As One' – the result of forty conversations with entrepreneurs, experts, and partners in and around the manufacturing industry. The main conclusion is crystal clear: Digitization and circularity are no longer separate worlds. Together, they form the new compass of the manufacturing industry.
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The Netherlands must focus on next-gen and energy-efficient AI

The Netherlands can and does not need to compete with the United States and China in the race for ever larger and more expensive AI language models, nor should it want to copy that approach. This is evident from a new deep-dive study by Invest-NL in collaboration with ROM-Nederland. The research shows that the Netherlands is particularly strong in those parts of the AI chain where qualitative data, energy-efficient technology, reliable infrastructure, and specialist knowledge are decisive. To capitalize on this position, investments and a robust AI industry policy are necessary.
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Brabant invests over 4 million together with the business community in sustainable chip production

Brabant is known for its strong semiconductor sector. With the Innovation Coalition Circular Semicon (ICCS), the province of North Brabant, together with the business community, helps companies in the chip sector to produce smarter, more sustainably, and future-proof from today. A total of just over 4 million is being invested. Of this, the province is making €2 million available to accelerate this circular transition.
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Team BOM

Our team supports entrepreneurs in realising their dreams. We’re working towards a strong innovation climate and a thriving economy in Brabant. Meet the entire team.