Grow your impactful innovation

Does your company belong to the ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs in North Holland that are developing innovations with social impact and financial return? Are you such a game-changer? Then we are here for you! The driven professionals at ROM InWest will support you with knowledge, network, and investments.

How
we help
you

ROM InWest helps innovative entrepreneurs become fundable faster, find funding, and grow healthily. Our assistance is conditional on your business being located in North Holland and your service or product delivering not only financial but also social returns.

We support you in two ways:

1

Is it time to make a real impact with your innovation and enterprise? Our business developers will help you develop a strong business case with which you can your...

2

Do you have a smart solution that demonstrably makes a social impact for the world of tomorrow? And are you looking for a professional investment partner to bring your innovation to the market?

For ROM inWest, innovation is the engine that drives everything
1

We help you focus and make the right decisions so that your business becomes investable and can scale up faster. 

2

We connect you with potential investors and also invest in your company where necessary.

Get
inspired

17 April 2026

Collaboration around Thorizon brings demonstration reactor to Petten

News
Thorizon, EPZ, NRG PALLAS, the provinces of Zeeland and North Holland, Impuls Zeeland, ROM InWest, and Invest-NL today signed a Memorandum of...
7 April 2026

“We want to make an impact for better and more affordable healthcare”

Interviews
As a doctor, Bart Geerts saw for years how post-operative complications damaged patients and represented enormous costs for hospitals. With Healthplus.ai...
24 March 2026

Defence Regional Team is ‘open for business’

News
The geopolitical world is changing rapidly. Europe needs to take more responsibility for its own security - and that includes...
27 March 2026

Strong network and innovativeness central at Energy Investor Day

News
On 25 March, the first 2026 Energy Investor Day (EID) took place at an inspiring venue: the Energy Transition...
12 March 2026

Why ROM InWest is investing in Life Sciences & Health innovations in North Holland

Interviews
Noord-Holland has a lot of knowledge in the field of Life Sciences & Health (LSH) and plenty of startups and...
8 March 2026

‘Staying power’ through resilience and resilience

Interviews
With a team of three female founding partners, Amplio Pharma is advancing within the world of...
3 March 2026

PIM and ROM InWest: guiding growth and impact together

Interviews
Since January 2026, ROM InWest has been programme manager of PIM, the successful programme in North Holland that helps entrepreneurs grow and...
17 February 2026

Amplio Pharma raises over €1.3 million for better drug against rheumatoid arthritis

News
ROM InWest, together with Libertatis Ergo Holding, Amsterdam UMC Ventures Holding and Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland, has invested €1.3 million in...
4 February 2026

HeartEye raises over one and a half million euros for early detection of possible heart disease

News
HeartEye has successfully raised a capital injection of €1,675,000. Besides ROM InWest, Schuberg Philis co-founder Pim Berger, Mphasis are also investing...
30 January 2026

North Holland and technology: a strong combination

News
The Netherlands wants to keep up with technological developments taking place worldwide. This is why the government is committed to a strategic...

Our
game changers

Our
game-
changers

Methotrexate is currently the most commonly prescribed basic drug for rheumatoid arthritis worldwide. Sixty to eighty per cent of patients receive this drug. The problem, however, is that methotrexate is too...

Thorizon is developing an innovative molten salt reactor that converts existing nuclear waste into clean, safe and efficient energy. Thanks to a patented system with interchangeable cartridges, the reactor makes best use of fuel and minimises...

Healthplus.ai is a Dutch MedTech scale-up from Amsterdam. Their AI system PERISCOPE® calculates each patient's risk of infection after surgery and gives the healthcare team clear actions to reduce that risk....

LIFEPOWR cleverly links hundreds of thousands of energy installations, think solar panels, batteries, charging stations and heat pumps. With its software platform FlexiO, the company automatically matches consumption, generation and storage to availability of...

ThePhoneLab shows that sustainability and entrepreneurship can go hand in hand. 38% of consumers still choose to replace a phone in case of damage. ThePhoneLab provides life extension...

HeartEye is a Dutch MedTech startup founded in 2021. HeartEye is developing a mobile device that, in 30 seconds, creates a fully diagnostic 12-channel ECG comparable to the quality of a hospital...

IT support in the field of AI UbiOps is a platform to support software applications that run on artificial intelligence (AI), such as computer vision and natural language processing. Startups, scale-ups and SMEs that do...

The energy market faces a major challenge: balancing supply and demand in an increasingly dynamic system. Traditional methods fall short of addressing the fluctuations of renewable energy sources, such as wind...

4 transitions for a sustainable & healthy economy

Circular transition

From a linear to a circular economy

Digital transition

Smart systems for society

Energy transition

From fossil to renewable energy sources

Food transition

Towards a more sustainable and healthier food system

What our partners say about us

A selection of the experiences of companies that have been helped by ROM InWest.

Amplio Pharma

“We don't just receive financial support from ROM InWest, but also help in areas where a small company can't yet invest, such as professional external communications. We really appreciate that.”

Marguerite Mensonides
CEO and Co-founder

Healthplus.ai

“With ROM InWest as an investor, it became more attractive for other investors to participate as well. Thanks to ROM InWest, we were able to raise the amount to take new steps.”

Bart Geerts
CEO and Co-founder

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