Category Archives: News

At Convent we think that cycling is one of the best ways of transportation, especially in a city environment. From an environmental perspective as well as from a health perspective. To get more and more people on their bike, and out of the car, we need to make the cycling experience as smooth as possible. […]

With the purchase of Dijkstra Group, we are taking a new step in building out the Innovus Group. DIJKSTRA GROUP IN NEW HANDS AFTER 138 YEARS As of January 1, 2023, Dijkstra Group will be transferred to new hands. The company was taken over by management and investor Convent Capital, who joined last year. This […]

Convent Capital is proud to announce its latest investment out of its Agri Food Gowth Fund into BeeHero. Please see the full press release below. BEEHERO RAISES $42 MILLION SERIES B TO ACCELERATE DEPLOYMENT OF ITS DATA-DRIVEN PRECISION POLLINATION PLATFORM BeeHero is now the largest pollination provider in the world, with more than 100K acres […]

In partnership with Convertus, we are pleased to announce the successful acquisition of Envirem Organics (“Envirem”). The acquisition of Envirem will be a key factor in the long-term growth of the Convertus platform, a full-service provider for the treatment and recycling of organic waste and largest processer of organic waste in Canada.     Envirem […]

Through our Agri Food Growth Fund we led a €11m investment round in ChainCraft, please see the press release below:   Circular chemicals scale-up ChainCraft raised growth capital ChainCraft, a Dutch scale-up active in circular chemical production is proud to announce it closed a EUR 11m funding round and secured the upcoming equity funding for […]

Our portfolio company CROWD takes another big step in its vision to become the leading player in Europe in Cycliug Infra & Street Furniture solutions through the acquisition of the market leader in Scandinavia. Please see the group’s press release below for more details.   CROWD proudly announces the acquisition of HITSA A/S Being an […]

Convent Capital is proud to announce today the launch of the Agri Food Growth Fund. The second investment fund in Convent’s 11-year history provides growth capital to innovative and sustainable companies in the Agri-Food sector. The fund has raised more than €50 million from its own network of investors and will grow to at least […]

Since its foundation in 2014, Creators of the Outside World (CROWD) have had the ambition to make a significant impact on the outside public living environment. A young and innovative group of established companies, we are involved in and contribute to designing and furnishing public spaces with products which enable modal transport, socialisation, and interaction, along with […]

Convertus has four facilities across Canada where it handles more than 300,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The company wants to increase capacity from about 20,000 metric tonnes at the Nanaimo facility, for which it recently secured a long-term contract with the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN). The plan is to have the site […]

Environment and Climate Change Canada, in collaboration with the European Union, is pleased to invite you to join us on March 29-31, 2021 from 8:00 am – 11:45 pm PST/ 11:00 am – 2:45 pm EST for the 2nd Canada – EU Workshop on CETA Opportunities for the Clean Technology Sector. During this workshop, you […]