BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 21, 2025/ PRNewswire/– HULO, a Dutch WaterTech start-up utilizing AI to discover leakages in water facilities around the world, has actually raised a EUR2.3 million seed round to accelerate its international growth. The round was led by VP Capital and LUMO Labs with involvement of Vanagon, Rabobank, the FOM and the Netherlands Enabling Water Innovation fund (NEW).
HULO’s SaaS-based platform utilizes pressure and circulation information from existing energy systems to discover, localize, and focus on leakages and abnormalities. It integrates AI and physics-based designs to comprehend the vibrant behaviour of each distinct network. The platform incorporates perfectly into existing energy operations, without the requirement for brand-new hardware or district metered locations (DMAs).
” Water deficiency is becoming among the world’s most important ecological restrictions, with around 30% of cured water lost internationally, frequently through aging water network facilities,” stated Erica van Eeghen, Senior Supervisor Ventures, VP Capital. She continued, ” HULO’s capability to discover leakages early, utilizing sophisticated AI instead of pricey sensing units, is precisely the sort of lean, scalable development that fits our financial investment lens. This is a domain where quantifiable ecological effect and performance work together. We’re delighted to sign up with forces with such thoughtful co-investors and a technically sharp starting group.”
HULO is active in the Netherlands, the EU, and the UK, and has actually taken very first actions into Latin America The brand-new financing will be utilized to speed up implementation in focus markets and broaden HULO’s abilities in AI, network analytics, cybersecurity, and client success to more increase their international effect.
Dagmar van Ravenswaay Claasen, Senior Partner LUMO Labs highlighted, ” Based upon the quantifiable ecological effect they are currently making: the business is on track to conserve the equivalent of over 4 million Olympic-size pool every year by 2030.”
HULO’s hardware- and network-agnostic technique leverages the information energies currently gather, removing the requirement for pricey hardware or network division. This leads to quick, scalable, and affordable leakage detection throughout a large range of environments.
” The future of water facilities needs that digital development incorporates with the functional truth these days’s networks,” stated Robbert Lodewijks, co-founder of HULO. “We’re constructing services that are both effective and useful– allowing water energies to do something about it without upgrading their systems.”
Conventional techniques count on physical evaluations, presumptions, or broad hydraulic modelling. HULO’s technique is driven straight by functional information. By continually gaining from real-time circulation and pressure signals, the platform surface areas actionable insights where and when they matter many. It’s a basic shift: from reactive leakage searching to proactive, data-informed water management.
The Netherlands are renowned for their competence and dedication to water management, however HULO’s global growth and the involvement of German equity capital fund Vanagon in their newest financial investment round, highlights the requirement for ingenious water management is common.
Water supply are vital facilities– and a resistant Europe depends upon openness and quick response to avoid breakdowns or perhaps attacks. With 30% of drinking water in the EU lost due to leaks, the requirement for AI-powered tracking is immediate. At Vanagon, we buy AI-native DeepTech groups taking on precisely these obstacles, and HULO is a fantastic example: a group utilizing advanced digital tools to fix among Europe’s most important facilities issues. – Axel Roitzsch, Co-Founder & & General Partner Vanagon.
NEW-ttt and FOM have a concentrate on speeding up development in water innovation and we are happy to be part of the success of HULO, a fantastic example of Dutch development capability stemmed from Wetsus, the institute for Sustainable Water innovation in Leeuwarden. Our company believe HULO has both the group and the innovation to make long lasting effect in conserving water internationally. Sybo Zijlstra – Financial Investment Supervisor
” Rabobank supports groundbreaking developments that add to sustainable water management. Hulo.ai, established within the development center Wetsus in Leeuwarden– a tactical Rabobank partner– is producing innovation that helps in reducing international water losses. We happily support their objective to make an enduring effect.”
VP Capital
About VP Capital
VP Capital is a single-family workplace based in Belgium and the Netherlands The Van Puijenbroek household began their activities over 150 years back. Our existing method is an impact-first method that intends to add to biodiversity, the environment, and social equality, by concentrating on regenerative, circular, biobased, net-zero, toxicity totally free and inclusive services.
Today we handle a varied portfolio with an overall group in numerous possession classes, consisting of endeavors. In our endeavor portfolio we concentrate on the domains energy shift, agrifood, tidy innovation, fabric and developed environment. VP Capital is B Corp-certified, and our CO2 decrease targets have actually been confirmed by the Science Based Targets effort.
VP Capital: Driven by Effect
LUMO Labs
LUMO Increase Fund is a MEUR 100 multi-stage (Pre-Seed to Series A) impact-driven equity capital fund, with an exclusive start-up training program for purpose-driven creators, who look for to bring technological developments to the marketplace to assist fix social and ecological obstacles.
LUMO Increase Fund purchases scalable and economically sustainable os, facilities, and platforms based upon and/or associated to emerging and possibly disruptive innovations, such as Expert system & & Data, Blockchain, Web of Things, Digital Security, and Extended Realities (AR/VR). The fund’s effect focus is best determined as the bottom-up crossroads in between the following UN SDGs: Health & & Health And Wellbeing, Quality Education, Sustainable Cities & & Communities, and Environment Action.
The main financial investment area is Benelux and Germany, and secondary Nordics, Baltics and the Iberian Peninsula. LUMO Increase Fund is the follower fund of LUMO Fund II handled by LUMO Labs, established in 2016 by previous tech business owners Andy Lürling and Sven Bakkes
Vanagon
Vanagon is a (pre-) seed fund based in Munich: Europe’s DeepTech center. We are purpose-built for sovereign-edge innovation in Industrial, Nature, and Digital Facilities – to take the EUR3T DeepTech chance in Europe We are partners from the first day to sustain the journey to Series-A and beyond.
New TTT & & FOM
FOM
The Frisian Advancement Fund (FOM), started by the Province of Fryslân, is a local mutual fund supporting ingenious SMEs. FOM supplies danger capital to business owners in sectors such as Water Innovation, Agrifood, High Tech Systems & & Products, Life Sciences & & Health, and Maritime. In doing so, FOM assists ingenious business grow and enhance the local economy.
NEW-ttt
The Netherlands Enabling Water Innovation (NEW-ttt) Fund is an effort of Wetsus, Deltares, the University of Groningen and NOM. It integrates leading research study and early-stage financing to speed up appealing water innovation start-ups. The program concentrates on 4 primary styles: water filtration, reuse of water and resources, production and storage of energy from water, and smarter management of water supply.
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