The fund is expected to close by year end with LPs including Wageningen University, TU Delft, University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology.
A new venture fund backed by four Dutch universities is expected to raise €65m ($70m) by the end of 2020 to nurture domestic businesses including spinouts.
The vehicle, dubbed Shift III, is aligned to Wageningen University and Research and TU Delft as well as the universities of Twente and Eindhoven.
The Dutch government will also participate through its research institute TNO and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, as will provincial governments, financial services firm Rabobank and unnamed private sector…
