Rotterdam-based Nearfield Instruments has closed a $380 million Series D at a $1.6 billion valuation — the largest deeptech raise in Dutch history.
The round is the latest signal that the Netherlands is assembling a full semiconductor stack, from chip design to manufacturing inspection, that no other European country can match.
Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, and Temasek are among the backers — sovereign and institutional money that rarely lands in one place by accident.
There is a version of the AI chip story that everyone knows. NVIDIA designs them. TSMC makes them. Governments fight over who controls the supply chain.
The version fewer people are tracking is happening in the Netherlands.
