Nityen Lal

Icos Capital, Investor in Next level of industry innovation with sustainability & digitization

๐Ÿ“ The Randstad, Netherlands, Netherlands๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 7 investments๐Ÿ“… 18 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested May 2023๐• @upgrade_to_unlock
VC๐ŸŒ Netherlands
7
Total investments
2
Early stage
1
Mid stage
3
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
May 2023
๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ Today, farming accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but we believe it could become carbon neutral. eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing. We bring together world-class experts from IT, agronomy, and environmental sciences to help farmers return carbon back into the soil, grow crops sustainably and profitably while leading the world toward cleaner nature and healthier food. eAgronom ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ allows farmers to get paid for creating Carbon Credits, improve the quality of their soil, reduce the cost of inputs and get access to better financing terms. All together, making carbon-neutral farming profitable. ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜‚๐˜€: hiring@eagronom.com - for career opportunities. hello@eagronom.com - for partnership enquiries.
late stageFarming
Board member
Sep 2020
NutriLeads is a pioneering company that is bringing groundbreaking innovation opportunities to the functional food and beverage and supplements industries. As consumers become increasingly health-conscious, the demand for natural and sustainable solutions that provide proven multiple health benefits is increasing. NutriLeads is at the forefront of this development, offering clinically proven, plant-based, precision prebiotic ingredients that enhance human health and well being. Our product portfolio is based on the ground-breaking Rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) technology. RG-I is a structurally complex fiber found in the cell walls of various crops that has exactly the right specificity to consistently stimulate beneficial gut microorganisms, which support a gut ecosystem that is primed for better health. Our flagship product, BeniCarosยฎ, is an award-winning, up-cycled prebiotic carrot fiber, unlocked and extracted through our proprietary process. BeniCaros has been scientifically and clinically proven train immune responses to be smarter and faster through targeted gut microbiome modification. Its small daily serving size of just 300 mgs facilitates versatile and easy incorporation into a broad range of products without affecting their taste, odor, or texture. BeniCaros is an ideal ingredient for functional food producers looking to create innovative, immune-strengthening and gut microbiome improving products that meet all consumer expectations. At NutriLeads, we take pride in the quality and efficacy of our proprietary ingredients, which all undergo rigorous scientific and clinical studies and regulatory approval before being licensed out to our partner companies for use in their finished functional foods and beverages or supplements. NutriLeads is based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, a world-renowned center for food research and development. Join us in revolutionizing the functional food industry and helping to shape a healthier, more sustainable future.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costsโ€”safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. ๐Ÿ† Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Board Member
Aug 2019
Responding to the needs of modern enterprises, the company provides solutions for data analysis based on artificial intelligence that help to prevent failures and improve operational excellence in industry. ReliaSol is the creator of RSIMS system, the Predictive Maintenance class, which takes advantage of artificial intelligence mechanisms to predict failures and other adverse events in production plants. RSIMS system is characterized by ease of use, implementation and high scalability. ReliaSol was founded from the initiative of the AGH University in Krakow, Poland. For years, thanks to the company's high focus on the effective R&D processes it has been successfully introducing innovative solutions in the field of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety), maintenance and optimization of machine operating processes.
Board Member
Sep 2017
KNOW YOUR LAND โ€“ Gamaya improves efficiency and sustainability of farming businesses by offering unique and compelling digital agronomy solutions, enabled by drones & satellite remote sensing and artificial intelligence.
Board Member
Nov 2014
Metalmembranes develops, manufactures and offers to the market an innovative type of inorganic porous membrane. Processes such as conducting microbiological analysis and numerous filtration applications can benefit the most from applying our metal membranes. Born from the opportunistic idea of combining the extensive experience and professional expertise of both its founders โ€“ two already established experts in the fields of electrochemistry and membranes โ€“ Metalmembranes now holds the patent* on a unique metal membranes technique.
Board Member
Jan 2008
Our 100% sustainable technology provides environmentally friendly distributed water solutions. Using innovation in heating and cooling, that makes the most efficient use of energy, our solutions harvest potable water from the air or remove salt and other impurities from sea, brackish or dirty water. Our mission is to empower the growth and development of communities and businesses around the world through a revolutionary decentralized approach to clean water production.
Experience ยท 11 entries
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Investments (7)
Board (7)
2024
Member of VC Council
Mar 2024
Invest Europe - The Voice of Private Capital Invest Europe is the association representing Europeโ€™s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. Our members take a long-term approach to investing in privately held companies, from start-ups to established firms. They inject not only capital but dynamism, innovation and expertise. This commitment helps deliver strong and sustainable growth, resulting in healthy returns for Europeโ€™s leading pension funds and insurers, to the benefit of the millions of European citizens who depend on them. Invest Europe aims to make a constructive contribution to policy affecting private capital investment in Europe. We provide information to the public on our membersโ€™ role in the economy. Our research provides the most authoritative source of data on trends and developments in our industry. Invest Europe is the guardian of the industryโ€™s professional standards, demanding accountability, good governance and transparency from our members. Invest Europe is a non-profit organisation with 26 employees in Brussels, Belgium. For more information please visit www.investeurope.eu
2023
Board Member
May 2023
๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ Today, farming accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but we believe it could become carbon neutral. eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing. We bring together world-class experts from IT, agronomy, and environmental sciences to help farmers return carbon back into the soil, grow crops sustainably and profitably while leading the world toward cleaner nature and healthier food. eAgronom ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ allows farmers to get paid for creating Carbon Credits, improve the quality of their soil, reduce the cost of inputs and get access to better financing terms. All together, making carbon-neutral farming profitable. ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜‚๐˜€: hiring@eagronom.com - for career opportunities. hello@eagronom.com - for partnership enquiries.
late stageFarming
2020
Board member
Sep 2020
NutriLeads is a pioneering company that is bringing groundbreaking innovation opportunities to the functional food and beverage and supplements industries. As consumers become increasingly health-conscious, the demand for natural and sustainable solutions that provide proven multiple health benefits is increasing. NutriLeads is at the forefront of this development, offering clinically proven, plant-based, precision prebiotic ingredients that enhance human health and well being. Our product portfolio is based on the ground-breaking Rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) technology. RG-I is a structurally complex fiber found in the cell walls of various crops that has exactly the right specificity to consistently stimulate beneficial gut microorganisms, which support a gut ecosystem that is primed for better health. Our flagship product, BeniCarosยฎ, is an award-winning, up-cycled prebiotic carrot fiber, unlocked and extracted through our proprietary process. BeniCaros has been scientifically and clinically proven train immune responses to be smarter and faster through targeted gut microbiome modification. Its small daily serving size of just 300 mgs facilitates versatile and easy incorporation into a broad range of products without affecting their taste, odor, or texture. BeniCaros is an ideal ingredient for functional food producers looking to create innovative, immune-strengthening and gut microbiome improving products that meet all consumer expectations. At NutriLeads, we take pride in the quality and efficacy of our proprietary ingredients, which all undergo rigorous scientific and clinical studies and regulatory approval before being licensed out to our partner companies for use in their finished functional foods and beverages or supplements. NutriLeads is based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, a world-renowned center for food research and development. Join us in revolutionizing the functional food industry and helping to shape a healthier, more sustainable future.
2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costsโ€”safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. ๐Ÿ† Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Board Member
Aug 2019
Responding to the needs of modern enterprises, the company provides solutions for data analysis based on artificial intelligence that help to prevent failures and improve operational excellence in industry. ReliaSol is the creator of RSIMS system, the Predictive Maintenance class, which takes advantage of artificial intelligence mechanisms to predict failures and other adverse events in production plants. RSIMS system is characterized by ease of use, implementation and high scalability. ReliaSol was founded from the initiative of the AGH University in Krakow, Poland. For years, thanks to the company's high focus on the effective R&D processes it has been successfully introducing innovative solutions in the field of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety), maintenance and optimization of machine operating processes.
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