Junction Growth Investors, an Antwerp, Belgium-based growth and buyout investment firm focused on climate tech, closed its first fund at €115M.
The fund is backed by a series of large family offices including some of the owners of AB-Inbev, Umicore, investment fund-of-fund Keeling Capital, the European Investment Fund (EIF), BNP Paribas, Fortis Private Equity, PMV, and Belgian Growth Fund, as well as technology entrepreneurs, Jan-Willem Rombouts, Gregoire de Streel and Jean-Guillaume Zurstrassen, amongst others.
Founded in the summer of 2022 by a group of entrepreneurs, CEOs Bruno Vanderschueren (ex-Lampiris) and Pieter-Jan Mermans (exREstore), complemented by seasoned investment professionals Dirk Dewals (ex-Gimv) and Vincent Gregoir (ex-Inven Capital), Junction continues to commit its resources to industrialize and scale European scaleups and SMEs which play a crucial role in the energy transition, either through minority or majority growth capital, with equity tickets ranging up to 15 M€ per deal.
Junction is an Article 9 fund and has already deployed capital in seven investments, all within dedicated verticals such as grid enhancing technologies, B2B installers (PV & storage), sustainable buildings, and others. Backed companies Ampacimon, Eneida, Eturnity, EET, Hysopt, and Haulogy.
FinSMEs
12/02/2025