Korys Direct Investments

Korys wil duurzame waarde creëren via een gediversifieerde portfolio van investeringen en focust binnen een aantal sectoren op investeringsthema’s waar het al een uitgebreide expertise in heeft: 

• Conscious Consumer

  Investing in innovative companies that address the challenges faced by consumers seeking responsible, convenient, and sustainable products and services.
  They invest in established companies within the agri-food sector that are scaling sustainable solutions, optimizing supply chains, and delivering health-focus, authentic products. From inputs to consumer brands, they seek to support scalable growth and measureable impact along the food value chain and theye are also targeting selected areas in the non-food space which center around sustainable and high-quality products and experiences that enhance convenience and align with the values of a conscious consumer.
  A selection from their current focus areas are listed below:

  • Agri-food value chain:
    • Plant-based and other alternatives (meat, fish, dairy ander others)
    • Balanced authentic lifestyles (local production, organic foods, "better-for-you", natural, free-from etc)
    • Preventive health (food supplements, functional foods, sports & dietary etc.)
       
  • Non-food value chain: 
    • Natural care & beauty, sustainable household products
    • Healthy life & Outdoors (sustainable (sports)clothing and outdoor products, bike and e-bike industry, the experience economy, etc)
       
  • Other emerging business models and solutions that enable sustainable consumption that are of interest to them:
    • E-commerce, circular & "as a service"-platforms or business models
    • Novel and sustainable packaging
    • Waste solutions
    • Water management/treatment solutions
       

• Healthy Living

  They aim to improve society’s health by investing in life science companies that prevent and treat diseases. They look for companies with a clear competitive edge, proven through strong scientific validation or early market success. Their primary focus is on EU-based companies. They invest between € 5m and € 15m, partnering with strong investment groups. Their strategy aligns with Korys’ 5P approach, emphasizing People and Planet.
  Specifically, they focus on:

  • Prevention: Investing in green biotech for increased food security and quality (sustainable agriculture, climate resilience and nutritional enhancement), as well as initiatives promoting healthy living through diet, sleep quality, physical activity, and mental health.
  • Therapeutics: Advancing treatments for severe diseases marked by high unmet medical needs.
     

• Energy Transition (Venture Capital)

  They invest growth capital in EU based enabling technology companies that either enable or facilitate the energy transition. This ranges from facilitating the integration of renewable energy assets in the grid or making these assets more efficient to technologies that reduce or optimize energy consumption. Other technologies and companies that can play a broader role in decarbonization are also of interest. Here below some examples of sectors of interest:

  • Asset optimization (O&M, demand & energy forecasts, predictive maintenance & diagnostics, etc.)
  • Smart mobility (Shared transport, MaaS, logistics, facilitators, EV charging software, etc.)
  • Distributed energy management & smart grids (VPP, demand response, grid support application, aggregation, supporting tech, DERMS)
  • Energy efficiency (energy management technologies & systems)
  • Energy storage (e.g. Grid frequency management, non-lithium storage technologies, monitoring)
     
• Energy Transition (Virya energy)
  • Renewable energy companies (IPP in solar/onshore) & hydrogen on an international scale, projects or pipeline for those companies
  • Large project finance > € 10m equity tickets
  • Supporting services for these companies where Virya can take a majority investment as an industrial shareholder