The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Ditto offers an AI-powered app that lets patients record consultations or upload photos of medical letters and then generates summaries that can be revisited later. The platform can translate summaries into simplified language and multiple languages including English, Turkish, and Arabic, and enables secure sharing with family members while stating that no data is stored centrally. The company says its service aims to improve patient understanding, reduce repetitive follow-up questions, and ease administrative pressure on healthcare professionals. Ditto launched last summer and its app has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times. The startup was founded by Tobias Polak, Bart Voorn, and Merlijn van Breugel. Using the new funding, Ditto intends to expand across Europe and build features to help patients prepare for consultations and navigate care journeys together with relatives.

Led · Seed · Apr 2026

VREY offers an integrated EnergyOS-style platform that measures tenant shares of on-site solar output, handles billing as a certified smart metering operator and billing partner, and removes the need for property owners to assume energy supplier responsibilities. The platform supports integration of batteries, heat pumps and EV charging infrastructure and is designed to operationalise Germany’s new "Gemeinschaftliche Gebäudeversorgung" framework. VREY currently manages a three-digit number of projects across all 16 German federal states and serves private landlords, housing cooperatives, project developers and large real estate companies. For installations it works with partners selected by its customers. The company has a team of around 20 employees and will use recent funding to grow headcount and further develop its product. VREY aims to scale deployment in the multi-family segment and expand the energy use cases available to property owners.

Led · Equity · Mar 2026

Founded in 2020 and based in Amsterdam, OpenUp offers an employee mental health platform with three core components: one-on-one sessions with psychologists and other experts (nutritionists, sleep specialists, financial advisors), interactive group sessions, and online courses. The service emphasizes direct, preventive, anonymous support without waiting lists and is available in more than 35 languages. OpenUp currently has over 250 connected professionals and reports that 600,000 employees and their family members can access its services. It operates in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium and serves more than 2,000 companies, including Rabobank, Decathlon, and Deloitte. The company highlights employer privacy safeguards—employers only see aggregate usage numbers and experts are not permitted to share user information. With the new funding, OpenUp plans to expand further across Europe and hire additional expertise to scale its offerings.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

RIFT develops an iron fuel system that uses iron as a circular energy carrier to produce high-temperature industrial heat without direct CO2 emissions. The company aims to replace fossil fuels in sectors where electrification is difficult by supplying iron fuel to industrial customers that integrate Iron Fuel Boilers. RIFT has about 75 employees and signed its first commercial contract in mid-2025 with Kingspan Unidek. The recent financing and EU Innovation Fund award are intended to fund its first commercial project and build its first commercial production facility, which the company expects to be operational in 2029. RIFT projects the initial project will generate roughly 340 GWh of industrial heat annually and about 5 TWh over 15 years while avoiding more than one million tonnes of CO2. The company plans to scale rollout of its iron fuel technology across energy-intensive industries following commercial deployment.

Led · Grant · Jun 2025

Punto Health is developing a dementia care platform that combines speech-based digital biomarkers with personalized daily care plans and clinician dashboards to shift cognitive care toward earlier identification and proactive, day-to-day support. The system forms a connected ecosystem that guides patients and carers while streamlining monitoring and care coordination for clinicians. Over the past year, the team co-designed and clinically validated the product with partners such as Ace Alzheimer Center Barcelona, several NHS Foundation Trusts, and multiple Spanish hospitals, reaching more than 2,000 individuals in the process. Feedback from these patients, carers, and clinicians has shaped product features aimed at usability and continuous engagement. With fresh seed capital, the company plans to scale its technology, expand hiring in London and Barcelona, and widen access to proactive dementia care for additional families. Financially, Punto Health has secured $2.7 million to fund these growth initiatives. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Anna Muñoz Farré.