Firms

Ernij Next

Ernij Next is a Dutch private investment firm described by an investee company as a family office. Its publicly confirmed investments back companies developing industrial technology: autonomous geodetic sensors and data-analysis software at Basetime, AI-powered warehouse picking and palletising systems at Smart Robotics, polymer bonding for diagnostic lab-on-a-chip production at Bondus Technologies, and large-area nanoimprint manufacturing for optical components at Morphotonics. These financings support product development, production scale-up and international commercial expansion. Ernij Next invests alongside specialist venture investors and regional development organisations.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

Funds0

No funds on record yet.

Team

Operations and support

Bart NijhuisInvestment manager (published October 2025; current status unverified)

Erik NijhuisInvestor representative (quoted July 2025; exact position and current status unverified)

Co-investing

Innovation Industries

Morphotonics$— · 2026-09-22
Smart Robotics€10M · 2026-04-21

3M Ventures

Morphotonics$— · 2026-09-22

Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)

Morphotonics$— · 2026-09-22

EIC Fund

Morphotonics$— · 2026-09-22

Invest-NL

Morphotonics$— · 2026-09-22

Investments

$—2026-09-22	Morphotonics	3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), Invest-NL, EIC Fund, Ernij Next
€10M2026-04-21	Smart Robotics	Innovation Industries, Ernij Next, Rotterdamse Havendraken
$—2025-10-30	Bondus	Ernij Next, Oost NL
$—2025-07-09	Basetime	Value Creation Capital, ROM Utrecht Region, Ernij Next

team@apexlogos.ai6 hours ago
Primary review October8,2026. Complete verified named public manager affiliations recovered are Erik Nijhuis, quoted investor representative in July2025, and Bart Nijhuis, investment manager publishedOctober2025; subsequent positions are unverified. A complete firm-owned staff/board/adviser roster is unpublished or unrecovered. Multiple unrelated Erik Nijhuis identities exist publicly; no personal LinkedIn, Nijhuis Bouw career, kinship or alias was guessed. The personal-domain eriknijhuis.nl is only a coming-soon template and has no primary Ernij Next ownership or strategy proof, so it is not set as the firm website. Authentic firm logo is published by actual investee Basetime with its financing release and retained unchanged. Primary GLEIF record8945007LG7O9W0YGZW42 independently identifies Ernij Next B.V., KvK75381710, Nijverdal and incorporation2019-07-11, but a primary bridge from the investing brand to this legal record or its named directors has not been recovered. The legal identity, incorporation year and registered address are therefore not applied. Secondary Amersfoort/SaaS-only profile and secondary B.Nijhuis/BerendJan/EllesJoanne/FrederikJan/EwoudGerritJan director leads remain unresolved; they are not firm people or aliases. No announced recent fund close, corpus, AUM or investor ticket was verified. Basetime participation belongs to actual native round47341; lead and ticket remain undisclosed. Smart Robotics, Bondus Technologies and Morphotonics are actual source-confirmed holdings queued for full profiles and exact native financings before Parts; no company stubs, guessed shared rounds or fund allocations added. Morphotonics reports expanded SeriesB more than€40million, not exact€40million; exact later amounts and relationship to its2024firstclose require dedicated round review.