Goeie Grutten Impact Fund
- Type
- Finance provider / Investor
- Location
- Oosterhout, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Arable farming, Food ingredients & products, Waste efficiency
About Goeie Grutten Impact Fund
Goeie Grutten Impact Fonds is a Dutch impact investment fund founded in 2015 by Ilse Bastmeijer and Bernd Voorsluijs. It focuses on two linked themes: the transition to sustainable energy and the availability of responsible, healthy and varied food worldwide.
The fund builds a targeted portfolio of investments in companies and funds that contribute to those goals. It combines capital with management and marketing support, and where needed helps investees work toward their intended impact objectives. The website also shows that the broader Goeie Grutten structure includes Stichting Goeie Grutten, which makes donations to support a more sustainable food system and the energy transition 2.0.
Core Values
- Sustainability: The fund is explicitly built around sustainable food and sustainable energy, with an emphasis on long-term environmental benefit.
- Health and responsible nutrition: It supports companies that improve access to healthy, responsible and varied diets.
- Impact orientation: Investments are selected not only for financial potential but also for their ability to create measurable positive change.
- Practical partnership: The team emphasizes close collaboration with entrepreneurs, combining capital with hands-on support.
Unique Aspects
- Dual focus on food and energy: Unlike many specialist investors, Goeie Grutten combines healthy food-system investing with energy-transition investing in one portfolio.
- Founded by entrepreneur-investors: Ilse Bastmeijer and Bernd Voorsluijs founded the fund in 2015 from their own entrepreneurial backgrounds, shaping a hands-on investment style.
- Supportive investor model: The fund explicitly aims for the right blend of capital and management/marketing advice, rather than acting as a purely financial investor.
- Broader foundation activity: Stichting Goeie Grutten complements the fund by donating to research and initiatives linked to a more sustainable food system and energy transition 2.0, including long-term support for Wageningen University & Research and TU Delft.