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Check out the job openings below. At the moment only partners of DOEN Participaties are featured on the job board.
Check out the job openings below. At the moment only partners of DOEN Participaties are featured on the job board.
Circotex BV specializes in textile manufacturing services. We will integrate the Best Available Technologies for textile finishing with our internal developped processes for circular fabrics and yarns. Curious to learn more , please follow this page and we will keep you updated
We are the investment fund of the DOEN Foundation and we have invested in sustainable and social enterprises for over 25 years. We have the ambition to make this world a greener and more socially inclusive place. Therefore, impact is central to all DOEN’s investments. We invest in early stages of a company and we take high risk. The impact portfolio currently totals approximately EUR 150 million and focuses on areas like renewable energy, circular business models, and small, and medium enterprise financing.
Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we’re opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We’re making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we’re changing the way products are made.
Design and development of sustainable buildings made from solid timber. Prefabricated modular units, suitable for any audience and every application. Be it a studio, apartment, office, care home or hotel. We have the solution. We envision a world where the built environment is part of the solution, instead of the problem. By reducing the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, we can help redress nature's balance. Solid timber buildings from sustainably managed forests are the natural solution, creating a healthy living environment for people and the planet. Finch Buildings makes sustainable living available to everyone.
Grounded’s purpose is to make farming more profitable for producers in Africa, and facilitate their transition to farming systems that create an abundance of life above and below the ground. We do this via the Grounded Investment Company, our Operating/Portfolio Companies, our Regen Ag facility and Grounded Ingredients.
Clean and affordable energy for everyone; one of the greatest challenges of our time. The energy transition is begging for change. That is why many parties have endless conversations about how things can and should be done differently. But all this takes so much time ... We do it differently! We accelerate the energy transition and are building tomorrow's energy supply today. Together we make the world a better place. More sustainable, cleaner and greener. With our smart batteries we are already taking steps towards a more beautiful world.
LocalTea is the company that has succeeded in making the tea plant Camelia Sinensis suitable for home consumption! The plant, the tea pods and locally produced tea are now available! Black tea, green tea, white tea… Almost all types of tea are made from the leaves of the tea plant: Camellia Sinensis. It was the Chinese who started growing and drinking tea thousands of years ago. But what they can do, you can now do too! With the Tea by Me© Camellia Sinensis tea plant you can grow tea in any city or town and produce your own tea. Just like your local brewery, you can now make your own artisan tea.
You might know NEFFA as MYCOTEX, which is the name of the mycelium-based material that we produce. In the past three years we have become so much more than just a material though: we have evolved into a fully automated manufacturing method for all kinds of biofabricated materials. This is why we decided to change our name to NEFFA, which stands for New Fashion Factory. The name MYCOTEX is now only used to describe the mycelium-based material that is made for the NEFFA manufacturing system.
Orbisk is a start-up on a mission to make the world food system more sustainable. We do this by using progressive and innovative technology. One of today's biggest challenges is food waste. Worldwide about one-third of all food produced is wasted. Looking at The Netherlands, for the hospitality industry alone, this adds up to 150 million kilos per year! Our integral solution provides hospitality organizations with a complete insight into their food waste. And by doing so help them cut their waste in half. For this we make maximum use of recent developments in computer vision and AI. Our smart camera on top of the waste bin, connected to a scale, will automatically register all food being that is being thrown away up to the ingredient level.
Oscar makes cities waste-free! Oscar's goal is to reduce the residual waste flow, bundle high-quality raw material flows for reuse and increase the quality of life in an area by limiting (polluting) transport movements. With a small and sustainable vehicle, Oscar personally collects waste and raw materials from all participants seven days a week. We work with people who are at a distance from the labor market. Waste and raw materials are transported to a hub in the area. At the hub, value streams and residual waste are bundled and, if possible, pressed to be transported out of the city to processors who return the raw materials to the production process.
PeelPioneers is a scale-up that wants to make a DIFFERENCE. Half the weight of an orange is its peel. Every time you drink a liter of juice, there is a kilo of peel left over somewhere. Waste, you might think, and most companies think so too. Every year we throw away more than 250 million kilos of citrus peels in the Netherlands. That's more than 10,000 trucks full! A shame, because the peels can also be used as a raw material. And this is already happening! In countries where citrus fruits grow (including Brazil & Florida), the peels are used to extract valuable raw materials. Nowhere in the world does this happen with peels that are thrown away every day at supermarkets and restaurants. PeelPioneers is changing this. PeelPioneers processes citrus peels and thus extracts raw materials that can be used in various industries. In this way we transition from waste to raw materials and PeelPioneers contributes to the circular economy. PeelPioneers has the ambition to return 100% of the peel to the food chain and does this with the help of partners. In 2023, our efforts were rewarded with the Circular Award Business Small and in 2024 we ended up at number 30 in the FoodTech500 world rankings!
Seepje makes natural washing and cleaning products. The ingredients are carefully chosen based on origin and health for people and the environment. Seepje is good and good. It does what it's supposed to do and contributes to a better climate. Melvin and Jasper - both with a passion for washing - started Seepje with their stufi in 2013. Seepje now has more than 25 washing and cleaning products that are available at more than 5,800 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. And not only that... Seepje has grown so fast that the team has more than 20 full-timers! We work in our The Hague Washroom where it is always pleasant, where we inspire each other and work together on our extremely important mission: a cleaner and more beautiful world!
We are Spark, and we're here to power tomorrow. We connect millions of people in emerging markets to solar power. We promise the highest level of customer satisfaction, and we deliver on that promise. Our modular systems are carefree and help you grow in life and work, no matter where you live, our grid allows even the smallest community to become energy resilient.
TommyTomato draagt bij aan een betere gezondheid van kinderen. Dit doen we door warme, vegetarische lunch maaltijden aan te bieden aan kinderen in de klas. 99% van de kinderen krijgt niet de juiste hoeveelheid groente binnen. Wij vinden dat dat beter moet en ouders natuurlijk ook. Daarom bieden we ouders de laagdrempelige en gemakkelijke mogelijkheid om hun kinderen via warme schoollunches meer groente te laten eten. We doen dit op een eenvoudige en leuke manier zodat scholen, ouders en kinderen het optimale gemak en de gezonde voordelen van TommyTomato ervaren. Zo werken we samen aan een gezondere toekomstige generatie.