Horizon Flevoland

Horizon Flevoland is the regional development agency for the province of Flevoland in the Netherlands. Its mandate combines three functions: financier, business developer and international expert, with the stated aim of helping local businesses pursue responsible, sustainable growth and strengthening the regional economy.

On the investment side, the organisation deploys risk-bearing capital in innovative companies within the Flevoland region and provides financing options to regional businesses beyond equity. Investment activity sits alongside a business development remit, which includes connecting companies around defined themes - among them agriculture, food and the circular economy. Flevoland, a province largely reclaimed from water in the twentieth century and now home to intensive arable and greenhouse agriculture, is a relevant backdrop to those sector priorities.

An international team completes the model, assisting foreign companies establishing operations in Flevoland and supporting local firms pursuing export markets. The combination of capital, development support and inward-investment facilitation is characteristic of Dutch regional development agencies, which typically operate as public or public-private vehicles rather than as conventional venture funds; specific fund size, stage focus and check sizes are not disclosed in the information available here.