At ROM InWest we are committed to a sustainable and robust North Holland economy, which offers equal opportunities to everyone. To achieve this, we focus on game changers: ambitious start-ups and scale-ups and SMEs that are able to accelerate the food transition, the energy transition, the healthcare transition and/or the transition to a circular economy with their innovations.
We believe that innovative entrepreneurs are crucialal are to the North Hollandshe economy robust and more sustainable at create, with equal opportunities for everyone – both for the world of tomorrow and for generations after us. We are convinced that entrepreneurs will improve if they receive support during all stages of their lives. Because consistent support leads to better strategic choices and so until consistent growth. The latter is a key condition for success.
Entrepreneurs can contact us for all aspects of innovative entrepreneurship and every life stage of their company. Our services consist of roughly three core tasks.
We do this to ROM InWest creates favorable conditions for innovation by connecting entrepreneurs with each other and with knowledge institutions and governments so that they can jointly build innovative, entrepreneurial and sustainable ecosystems in a structured manner. With tailored business development, we support innovative entrepreneurs in developing their business plans and making their innovations financially viable.
The help we help you find financingtartups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs to get off the ground and grow further. DTo this end, we work together with various partners, such as incubators, accelerators and venture capitalists (vc's) and all kinds of financial institutions. ROM's investments InWest come from two of the three funds we manage. The SME Fund, of a size of €60.7 million, provides financing for innovative companies in the broad sense. The Transition Fund has a target capital of €100 million and is aimed at stimulating the important transitions of our time.
Supporting companies through government schemes, such as the MIT and the COL, is an important core activity of ROM InWest. In this way we unlock opportunities that arise from this for entrepreneurs in our region. In 2023 we supported Province NorthHolland for the second year in the implementation of the SME Innovation Stimulation Region and Top Sectors Feasibility (the MIT Feasibility and MIT R&D components). In 2024 we will continue this support.
In the documents below we describe in detail our goals, how we are working towards them and the results we have achieved to date.
Our shareholders consist of the government, the province of North Holland and local municipalities in North Holland.
The management of ROM InWest and InWest Regio is supervised by a supervisory board.
The complete overview of our shareholders can be found below.
