Rob van der Meij

Capricorn Partners NV (Capricorn) is an independent European licensed manager of private and public equity investment funds which was founded in 1993 as a joint venture between Dr Jos B. Peeters and Baring Venture Partners Ltd. In 1999, Capricorn became a fully partner-owned, independent firm. It is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Cool Separations BV commercializes eutectic freeze crystallization and freeze concentration processes to the market as an energy efficient method to produce clean water. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

DMC Biotechnologies, Inc. operates as an early-stage biotechnology company. The firm is the low cost sustainable transformation of multiple product markets. The company was founded by Matt Lipscomb and Mike Lynch in August 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

VOID Technologies Ltd. is a British company that manufactures polyethylene film. The company is based in Beaconsfield, UK. The company was founded in 2014.

Trillium Renewable Chemicals, Inc. is a company that is replacing oil and gas with plant-based feedstocks in the manufacturing of green, drop-in molecules. The company is based in Knoxville, TN and was founded by Corey Tyree, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company has developed proprietary thermochemical technology to convert plant-based feedstocks like glycerol into valuable chemical intermediates such as acrylonitrile and acetonitrile. Acrylonitrile is used to manufacture a wide range of materials such as ABS plastic, carbon fiber, acrylic fiber, NBR, acrylamide, and specialty amines. Trillium is providing a green alternative to meet the increasing worldwide demand for these chemicals.

Black Bear Carbon BV produces used tires into prime grade carbon black and green energy. It also produces carbon black from end of life tires for the tire, rubber and paint industry. The firm specializes in Circular Economy, Upcycled Carbon Black, Urban mining and Solutions for end-of-life tires. The company was founded by Jan Jonkman and Ronald Verberne in 2010 and is headquartered in Nederweert, the Netherlands.

BiAqua BV develops bio-based solution to water contamination issues. The firm offers water treatment solutions. The company was founded by Paul J. Buijs in 2009 and is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands.

fluXXion founded in 2003, is a Dutch clean technology company applying proven manufacturing technology from the semiconductor and micro system industries, to the design and manufacture of unique micro filtration and separation products for bulk liquid filtration markets and chemical separation markets. The basic manufacturing technology was originally developed by Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, for the manufacture of complex micro structured products. Co-inventor Prof. Dr. Cees van Rijn first started making wafer based Microsieves for filtration in 1994. fluXXion completed the industrial application of this technology and has its own R&D as well as production facilities. A well-balanced team of industry veterans, who worked together for over ten years in related high technology fields, founded the Company in 2003 and expanded the company over the years. fluXXion is based on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands The company has closed several contracts with leading industrial partners to develop, integrate and market the technology. Given the huge benefits of the fluXXion technology versus the traditional filtration and separation technologies, in the focal area's dairy products processing and distillation applications, it is clear that the company has great potential to become an unique major technology provider in these markets. The first full scale filtration plant is in operation at a large cheese factory with an annual capacity of 40 000 tons. A demo-unit for a chemicals stripping unit will be built in the first half of 2010. In 2008 fluXXion was the only Dutch company selected as Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

Hermes Catalysts BV develops and sells products that improve the environmental performance and reduce the cost at oil refineries. The company is headquartered in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.