Dutch AI Platform Balthazar Secures €1.2 Million In Pre-Seed Round

The round was led by CapitalT, with support from Antler and various Dutch innovation funds. The investment will be used to enhance the product, boost AI features, and expand the team.

“DeepTech labs are pushing the limits of science and engineering – yet still rely on tools never meant for today’s complexity,” says Dejan Davidovikj, Founder and CEO of Balthazar. “Teams run incredibly complex experiments with no shared source of truth and no system to manage the process. Balthazar gives them structure, automation, and visibility – so they can move faster and make better decisions, backed by data.”

Founded in 2024, Balthazar offers an AI-powered platform that helps researchers run, track, and manage experiments in real time—all from a web browser.

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So far, Balthazar has supported 6,000+ experiments and is trusted by partners like TU Delft and companies in semiconductors, quantum tech, and energy storage.

The platform tackles a key challenge in DeepTech R&D, where over €250 billion is spent annually, yet work is still often done through manual processes and disconnected tools.

Balthazar offers a smarter alternative: a real-time, intelligent workspace that connects every part of the research and development workflow.

“Balthazar solves a foundational challenge for DeepTech teams: turning research chaos into coordinated progress,” says Eva de Mol, Founding Partner at CapitalT. “The team deeply understands the day-to-day problems of modern R&D labs and builds exactly the kind of infrastructure needed to enable faster and more reproducible technological breakthroughs. We’re thrilled to support them from the beginning.”

With Balthazar, R&D engineers can run and monitor experiments straight from their browser—tracking everything from design and fabrication to measurement and analysis.

The platform connects directly to lab instruments and local workstations, keeping all prototype data in one organised space.

Users can build on their existing code and easily integrate it into their workflows. Powered by modern web tech and scalable cloud infrastructure, Balthazar enables faster iterations, smooth collaboration, and consistent, reproducible results at scale.

About Balthazar

Balthazar is a cloud-based R&D platform that helps engineers run, track, and analyze experiments in one place. It automates data capture across the entire research cycle and uses AI to deliver real-time insights—enabling faster, smarter, and more collaborative development of next-gen technologies.