Almende Investments: the independent investment company with a track record in growing ICT companies.
The companies in our portfolio are young, innovative and fast-growing. They all focus on using the principles of self-organization to aid people in organizing their own lives.
The investment is a partnership, whereby the management and the investor move the company forward into the next phase together.
We are hands-on in sharing our Investments network and our experience in business, technology and finance with management teams
Because we believe that ICT is most valuable when it is used to offer people the opportunity to organize their activities for themselves.
This creates communities that share a real time view on reality, decide local, provide and use feedback, adapt instead of plan and focus on simplicity.
Almende Investments has many years of experience in growing startups. Therefore we are now able to quickly spot the high potentials. We know just which powerful set of criteria to use, to select the best of companies we invest in.
Besides the financial investment, we are very strong in providing companies our latest research knowledge, experience and technology from the unique combination of high tech businesses in the Almende Investments network.
We're investing in young, innovative and fast growing ICT-companies!
Communication, cooperation and negotiation between the key elements of logistical systems.
Sense Observation Systems, or Sense Labs, is a technology company that creates context-awareness.
Crownstone, founded in 2016, is a company that combines indoor localization with building automation for homes and offices.
RITHM functions a project partner with a core expertise in facilitating solutions by creating custom-built software.
TeamTelefoon offers a business to business work productivity tool focused on reachability of teams.
StandBy Solutions offers a presence detection system that detects the presence of people or devices in a facility, and is also able to pinpoint where they are within the facility.
Distributed Organisms, or DoBots, researches innovative solutions using Internet of Things, robotics and big data.
Sense Health creates unrivalled solutions to provide insight in behavior and the consequences on people’s wellbeing.
Stationsplein 45 – D1.116
3013 AK Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 404 9444
“We grow young, innovative and fast growing ICT companies with a focus on aiding employees in organizing their own networks.”
Management and ICT should facilitate employees, not inspect, regulate and control them. Almende envisions new forms of organization which better realize the potential of people. ICT and technology should be used to help people perform their work.This focus is called self-organization.
Almende Investments has many years of experience in growing startups. Therefore we are now able to quickly spot the high potentials. We know just which powerful set of criteria to use, to select the best of companies we invest in.
The investment is a partnership, whereby the management and the investor together move the company forward into the next phase. We are hands-on in sharing our business, technical and financial experience with management teams. We also use our Almende Investments network.
Almende Investments is very strong in providing companies the latest research knowledge, experience and technology from the unique combination of high tech businesses in the Almende Investments network.
Our equity investments have a geographical focus on the Netherlands. Although investment opportunities in surrounding countries will be considered.
We are definitely interested in big ideas and we want to see some of how you put idea into practice. If you also believe that ICT is most valuable when it is used to offer people the opportunity to organize their activities for themselves, then we strongly advise you to reach out to us. Find some reasons below!
The funding may be financial. In that case the amount depends, amongst others, on the type of company, growth potential, high barriers to entry and exit possibilities. We also help you find your way towards new projects and we aid in subsidy acquisition.
But, beside the financial part, we are very strong in providing you with the latest research knowledge, experience and technology from the unique combination of high tech companies in the Almende Investments network.
Beyond funding, critical to a company’s success is an active and vibrant market in which a company operates. There are many indirect and direct players in the market that companies work with and through to build successful businesses. We provide this network, ranging from serial entrepreneurs to technology experts. Almende Investments is managed by a group of experienced businesspeople, to fund the greatest next generation of startup companies.
All the Almende research is related to the emergence of synergetics: the self-formation and self-organisation of complex adaptive hybrid agent networks.
Hybrid networks involve people, organizations, physical and virtual objects, but also climatological, biological, socio-economic and ecological systems. These networks are connected, monitored and coordinated by information, computing, storage and communication systems (ICT).
We take inspiration from successful self-organizing systems that one finds in nature, such as the human brain, insect colonies, and swarms of birds.
We’re very impressed by applicants who have a business plan to show us. This include the product (e.g. Alpha or Beta version, a prototype, or videos and screenshots), USPs, market, competition, strategy and financials.
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