VNYX raises more than €1M to scale robotics and AI to accelerate fashion resale and stop dumping.
Amsterdam, 30 april 2026 – VNYX, the industrial robotics & ai startup that aims to make fashion resale more scalable and profitable than dumping, today announced it has secured over €1M in total funding. This milestone, consisting of strategic investment and government grants, marks VNYX’s transition to a post-revenue and clients phase and validates its mission to make fashion resale more profitable than new retail.
A World-Class Team & Visionary Partners
Just a pitch deck one year ago, the rapid development of VNYX’s proprietary technology is a testament to the talent behind the scenes. With more than a million in funding, winning the Fashion Pioneer and Modint New Talent awards.
“Beyond the capital, our progress is driven by a world-class team and advisors whose dedication to stop fashion waste has turned a bold vision into reality in just 12 months” says Vincent van der Holst, co-founder / CEO of VNYX.
This team is backed by the best DeepTech engineers and impact-driven partners and their trust in our vision and team to turn fashion waste into profit
- DeepTech & Venture Scaling: Support from Baltic Business Angels and the Squads Fund provides the technical and commercial mentorship required to navigate complex hardware-software integration.
- Impact & Circularity: Stichting DOEN and Earthstar have been instrumental in aligning VNYX’s growth with scalable environmental impact.
- Engineering Excellence: Spark Design & Innovation serves as a key partner and investor in the physical development of the VNYX hardware suite, ensuring world-class industrial design and accelerating time2market.
- Public Innovation Support: The RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) has provided critical non-dilutive funding to fuel R&D and technological breakthroughs. We thank Innovencio for their expertise to make this happen.
Proven Efficiency: The 1-Minute Promise
By combining software and AI with proprietary and soon to be patented hardware, VNYX has already slashed processing times from 19 minutes to just 3 minutes per item, making resale radically better, faster and cheaper. Currently, the VNYX10 system processes 10,000 items annually for partners like online platform BOAS and outdoor brand Bever, generating immediate commercial revenue. The company remains on track to hit its “1-minute promise”, the radical goal it gave itself for profitable resale, by the end of the year.
“Any brand who wants to go below one minute with us can join right now. We dump and burn one garbage truck of textile every three seconds, so every second counts. The right time to act is now.” Says Romy Goedhart, co-founder of VNYX.
Looking Ahead: The big VC Round
With the next-generation VNYX100 (100k items/year capacity) set for delivery to BOAS in June 2026, VNYX is opening its doors in Amsterdam to investors and fashion brands for its next phase of growth, the VNYX1000, the world’s first resale robotics and AI capable of handling more than 1 million items per year.
“We have proven that fashion resale isn’t only the right thing to do for the planet, but it’s the right thing for your wallet too” says Guus Balkema, CFO of VNYX. “Our focus now shifts to scaling. We are curating a shortlist of strategic VCs and fashion brands for the deployment of our VNYX1000 technology to international fulfillment centers and global fashion brands”.
VNYX invites VCs with a focus on Circular Economy, DeepTech, ClimateTech and/or Fashion/ Reversed Logistics automation, and forward-thinking brands, logistics centres and fashion resellers to join them in making fashion resale profitable and scalable.
