The Venture Codex

Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

Founded in 2021 by Kimia Namadchi and Nils Heyman-Dewitte, CurveCatch leverages machine-learning algorithms and a short preference questionnaire to predict a customer’s optimal bra fit and style. The service ships a curated box of eight bras after a €25 deposit (refunded even if nothing is purchased) and builds a personal webshop based on the client’s feedback, deliberately omitting traditional sizing to reduce sizing bias. CurveCatch claims materially lower return rates than the 60-80 % often seen in online lingerie, and it aggregates anonymized fit and style feedback to help partner brands avoid overstock. The company currently focuses on Belgium and the Netherlands but aims to digitize the global lingerie market and later branch into adjacent intimate-apparel lines such as swimwear and underwear. Inventory is held in-house to ensure quality control, making the model capital-intensive. To fund continued AI development and inventory expansion, CurveCatch has secured €2.4 million in equity financing across two seed rounds and received an innovation grant from Vlaio.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Touchwaves, founded by Charlotte Kjellander and Martin Romero as a spin-off from Dutch research institute TNO, builds next-generation wearable haptics that deliver intuitive, non-invasive tactile feedback to users operating in high-workload settings. The system is initially aimed at fighter-jet pilots and is being co-developed with the Dutch Ministry of Defence, the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Forces, and the Center for Man in Aviation to reduce human-factor errors and improve mission effectiveness. Designed as a dual-use platform, the company envisions the same technology supporting elite sports training, ground operations, and healthcare applications such as breathing guidance and stress resilience. The startup’s long-term goal is to establish haptics as a core human–machine interface wherever cognitive load and stress are high. Touchwaves has secured €1.5 million in pre-seed capital to accelerate product development and expand its use-case roadmap. No revenue or user figures have been disclosed to date, and the company remains in its early development phase.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Bloom & Wolf produces luxury silk flowers sold as one-off purchases or via a subscription and rental model that emphasizes sustainability. The company operates a circular rental process that cleans and prepares returned bouquets for reuse. Its subscription service claims 85 times fewer CO2 emissions than traditional flower subscriptions and is on average four times cheaper. Founder and CEO Gwen van de Pas framed the product as a sustainable alternative that avoids the cost, care burden, and environmental impact of fresh flowers. Bloom & Wolf is Amsterdam-based and targets customers seeking high-end, low-impact floral options. The company plans to use new funding to expand its product offerings and grow B2B sales capacity.

Led · Seed · Dec 2023

Ozarka develops reusable food packaging and end-to-end services (zero-waste delivery, logistics, and commercial food service) to replace single-use containers in professional catering and takeaway. The company operates as a B2B provider serving corporate and professional catering, stadiums, office parks, events and festivals, food halls, food courts, and delivery. Ozarka sources containers from European manufacturers that are durable (rated up to 1,000 uses), dishwasher-safe, leak-proof, stackable and gastronomy-compatible. The company measures impact with life-cycle assessment tools, tracking reductions in material waste, food waste, CO2, and logistics emissions. Ozarka emphasizes a hyperlocal supply chain and charges fees for container use, positioning pricing to be resilient to raw-material and international supply-chain volatility. Financially, the business was bootstrapped by founder Beth Massa early on and has since raised a €240K Pre-Seed and a €500K Seed to advance operations.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2023

tex.tracer offers a SaaS transparency platform that collects verified product-journey data from suppliers to help fashion retailers and brands act on reliable environmental and social data. The platform verifies submissions using time and geolocation stamps, peer-to-peer reviews and blockchain technology. It surfaces insights that support compliance with EU rules such as EPR, CSRD and the Digital Product Passport and helps brands work toward EU Net Zero goals. Founder and CEO Jolanda Kooi, a textile engineer with over 20 years of experience, started the company with co-founder Bart Westerman; the team is majority female. The startup trialled the platform four years ago and has since positioned itself to scale industry-wide transparency. tex.tracer plans to use new funding to automate its business, prepare for international growth, and expand platform data from production into the use-phase to extend product lifetimes.