Gravity Gardens raises €2.6 million from VP Capital, Brightlands Venture Partners, Graduate Ventures, and private investors.
DuckDB sold to AWS.
Neno raises €6.6 million from AlleyCorp (lead), Motive Partners, Firstminute Capital and various fintech angel investors including Hugging Face, Mollie, Juni, Deel, Miro, Coinbase, PayPal and Navro.
VitalFluid raises €17.2 million from Invest-NL, Alder Tree Investments, Horticoop, BOM, Future Food Fund, Graduate Ventures, Innovation Industries, VDL Groep, Goeie Grutten Impact Fonds and RVO.
Clementine raises $2 million at Healthy.Capital.
If you wish to make use of the WBSO this year, or if you have additional projects and hours that you want to claim for 2026, you can do so until the end of September 2026. The WBSO is an R&D (wage) cost subsidy that is offset against payroll tax. The benefit can amount to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of euros. The WBSO also opens the way to the Innovation Box.