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Nick Jetten and Bastiaan van de Rakt on a decade of production ML & AI and AI tech investing — VC/PE convergence, AI-native funds, TechTruth benchmarks, and five findings from 100+ tech due diligences.
Seven conclusions from 262 pitch decks and seven learnings on expert feedback that increases the real value of AI — scoped loops from VCs, founders, and operators that compound into 101+ reusable diligence rules.
Two decades building AI, and I was still running a multi-agent pipeline with governance on only two of the three lines. How Deeploy's three-lines-of-defence model — and the MCP Server that finally activated the first line — moved control to where it has the most leverage: the input, before the first agent runs.
Dutch energytech startup and Why Commit Capital portfolio company Eddy Grid raised €7.5 million after nearly 900% revenue growth — while staying cash-flow positive.
The wrapper epidemic didn't end — it just learned a new word.
After 100+ tech due diligences and 1,000+ decks, the patterns are always the same.
Less than a year after asking why the Netherlands had no AI hub, it's happening. The AI Hub Amsterdam is live — and Why Commit Capital is part of it.
Enjins recaps Amsterdam ClimateTech × AI: Fastned, Milence, and Chargetrip on uptime, “power anxiety,” grid intelligence, and how data, ML, and GenAI shape Europe’s charging stack.
NOS covers the Dutch push behind Nextkidney’s portable dialysis system, focused on giving kidney patients more freedom and reducing dependence on hospital-based treatment.
Amsterdam-based Volve Capital announced the final close of its first fund at €9 million — backing pre-Seed founders across Benelux and DACH, with ~30 Dutch entrepreneurs as LPs and support from the RVO Seed Capital programme.
Thank you to EWOR for a truly international founder-to-founder community — and to every founder who keeps pushing when others would quit.
Deeploy is listed among the Netherlands’ fastest-growing challenger companies in MT/Sprout’s Challenger 50 ranking for 2025.
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Deeploy compares open-weight vs closed API models — transparency, vendor lock-in, hybrid stacks, and how EU AI Act roles (provider vs deployer) shift with each choice.
Proud to launch Deeploy’s AI Governance & Control Framework — built with leading partners to make responsible AI governance practical across the lifecycle.
Deeploy on HITL as real governance: explainability for reviewers, shadow mode, EU AI Act & GDPR human oversight, and closing the loop from override to model improvement.
Deeploy on onboarding Mistral via API with centralized visibility, monitoring, logging, and audit-ready documentation — governance around external deployments without rehosting models.
Iconicworks positions itself as an AI software layer for complex projects, focused on turning planning and execution complexity into practical decision support.
EWOR positions itself as a highly selective founder fellowship, combining up to €500K per founder with hands-on support from operators who built unicorn-scale companies.
ESG News covers Carbon Equity’s third climate tech portfolio fund at €105M raised — total AUM past €300M, 1,260+ LPs, and diversified exposure across 25+ specialist climate funds.
Volve Capital welcomes Bastiaan van de Rakt as Operating Partner — deepening hands-on AI and product support for portfolio founders.
Utrecht-based Deeploy secured up to €7.5M from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to scale responsible AI and MLOps — a €2.5M grant plus €5M reserved in equity for its next round.
Deeploy on onboarding, monitoring, and governing OpenAI APIs — audit trails, documentation in one place, and alignment with EU AI Act–style expectations without changing how models are hosted.
Ocean mapping and climate resilience — Planblue secures European Innovation Council support to scale deep-tech sensing.
Belgian startup Nox Energy secures $1M to scale software that connects household energy assets such as heat pumps and inverters to energy market signals.
Patchstack raises $5M Series A with participation from Emilia Capital, the fund founded by Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt after Yoast.
NATO DIANA selects ten companies for Phase II of its accelerator, with focus areas including sensing, secure information sharing, and energy resilience.
Energy flexibility at the edge: Eddy Grid expands installations and software for residential storage.
Emerce best practice met Joost de Valk (Emilia Capital) en Bastiaan van de Rakt (Deeploy): reproduceerbaarheid, uitlegbaarheid (XAI) en menselijk toezicht — de kern voor high-risk AI onder de Europese AI-wet.
Deeploy and Taktile partner to help banks and fintechs combine decision-engine automation with transparency, oversight, and compliance for AI-driven risk decisions.
How redirecting AI toward environmental root causes can turn efficiency gains into durable planetary impact—climate, disasters, oceans, and energy.
Deeploy — Jan 2024. Five questions on runtime AI governance, production ML, and why “human in the loop” still matters.
Eddy Grid and Skoon Energy team up to deploy mobile batteries at energy hubs, turning idle capacity into grid support and new revenue for owners.
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published Deeploy and neobank Bunq as a reference case for transparent AI governance in anti-money laundering applications.
Mobility and marketplace scale-up — two camper rental leaders merge to strengthen European outdoor travel.
Portfolio company Nextkidney closes €11.9M Series B to accelerate development of the NeoKidney — the world's first truly portable home hemodialysis device.
Deeploy on ChatGPT-era generative AI: ethical risk, RLHF context, and practical levers — traceability, human-in-the-loop, explainability, and governance for high-impact use cases.
Enjins takes first steps at its Berlin presence — with thanks to the ecosystem around Merantix, peers and partners. #mlops #ai #scaleups
First close of the Carbon Equity Decarbonization Fund I at €15M toward a €25M target — a portfolio of curated private climate funds, with EIP Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund as the first approved sleeve.
Deeploy announced a new home at Oudegracht 91 in Utrecht — shared with Enjins from 1 March — with more space to grow, meet customers, and host the team by the canal.
Deeploy closed its first €1M investment round, led by Curiosity, to grow the team, expand explainable AI product, and build toward enterprise customers and a broader SaaS offering.
Deeploy on bringing model explanations into Angular front-ends — closing the gap between MLOps and the UI so users see transparent, accountable AI where decisions actually happen.
Deeploy on explainable AI: why accountability and transparency matter as ML grows more complex — from public-sector oversight and SyRI to insurers’ ethical-AI frameworks and the need for practical tooling.
Nextkidney BV and Swiss medtech company Debiotech join forces in NextKidney SA, appointing Jérôme Augustin as CEO to lead commercialisation of the NeoKidney — the world's first truly portable home hemodialysis device.
Goboony raises €579K via crowdfunding — well above its €200K target — backed by its own campervan community. The platform reports 300% growth with over 1,600 vehicles shared and 15,000 people sent on motorhome holidays.
EY Advisory acquires VODW in one of the largest management consulting deals in Dutch history — bringing together 100+ professionals including a fast-growing data science practice.
Bastiaan van de Rakt, Maarten Stolk and Nick Jetten co-found Enjins in Utrecht — an ML engineering company focused on getting AI from proof-of-concept into production at scale-ups in climate, mobility and marketplaces.