Financial instruments

Groundbreaking ideas are sometimes difficult to finance. With new investment funds, guarantee and deal structures, we attract capital for innovative businesses.

Mobilizing capital

To initiate societal transitions, public and private capital are required. Where the market does not offer suitable financing instruments, Invest-NL develops these itself. Think of guarantee structures, deal structures, and investment funds. Invest-NL develops, structures, and manages the implementation of these financial instruments to make the necessary capital available for financing transitions.

The instruments we deploy

With these instruments, we attract public and institutional capital for funding transition tasks.

Attracting European capital

We manage financial instruments through which capital is made available for innovative enterprises. As such, we are implementation partners of the InvestEU fund for businesses and projects in the Netherlands.

Funds

We initiate and manage funds. For example, we have set up the DACI (Dutch Alternative Credit Instrument), the Deep Tech Fund, and the Dutch Future Future Fund (DFF), through which we support startups and scale-ups in the Netherlands. We also take the initiative to mobilise private capital with the help of public capital.

Blended finance

We establish blended finance structures, with a mix of patient and private capital. This makes it easier for investors to get involved. Read more here:

Developing instruments

We establish guarantee structures, such as the Corporate Power Purchase Agreement. This provides energy producers with the necessary price and supply security, and makes the development of new (energy-producing) projects financeable.

Blended finance as a key to the transition to green hydrogen

Green hydrogen plays an important role in the energy transition, but development is progressing slowly due to a lack of investments. The high production costs of green hydrogen compared to grey, non-sustainable hydrogen make it financially unattractive for investors. Invest-NL presents a new report explaining how blended finance can help facilitate the funding of electrolysis projects – which produce green hydrogen – thereby accelerating the transition to sustainable energy.

Making more and more sustainable energy solutions possible

Innovations in technologies and business models driving the electrification of energy systems are emerging rapidly. Wind and solar energy projects are being developed on an increasingly larger scale. To have continuous access to sustainably generated electricity around the clock, energy storage systems are playing an increasingly important role.

Invest-NL and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy sign blended finance agreement

Minister Adriaansens of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and the Board of Directors of Invest-NL have signed a covenant that enables Invest-NL to establish blended finance structures. This covenant provides Invest-NL with a framework for setting up financing structures where subsidies are used as possible revolving financing and combined with private capital. This means that new financing opportunities will arise for projects and enterprises that are important for the major societal transitions towards a sustainable and innovative Netherlands.

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Some publications

General

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17 juni 2024

Vision on blended finance

The added value of a guarantee fund for corporate Power Purchase Agreements

Biobased & Circular economy

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1 november 2023

The added value of a guarantee fund for corporate Power Purchase Agreements

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Anne Mieke van der Werf

director business development

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