BIJZAAK

Name

BIJZAAK

Legal name

Bijenbaas B.V.

Website

https://bijzaak.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Urban Beekeeping Services

NAICS

Apiculture (112910)

akta.pro primary industry

Apiary Management Services (Contract Beekeeping, Hive Maintenance) (AFAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Beekeeping Training, Education & Advisory Services (AFAEAHAO), Bee Health Management & Treatments (Mite/Disease Control Products & Services) (AFAEAHAK)

Keywords

• Urban beekeeping services
• Corporate biodiversity programs
• Rooftop beehive placement
• Bee colony adoption
• Sustainability consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Schoonrewoerd

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Corporate Urban Beekeeping Services: Bijzaak places and maintains beehives on company rooftops and gardens. The company handles installation, regular inspections, and honey harvest. Customers provide space access and receive local honey produced by their bees. Services include biodiversity consulting, planting advice, workshops, lectures, and Bijendak certificates for sustainability reporting.
2. Adopt a Bee Colony: Companies without suitable premises can adopt a bee colony at existing locations. Adoptors receive honey produced by their adopted colony and may receive workshops or lectures about bees and biodiversity.
3. Trees for Business Program: Companies sponsor trees in food forests as part of CO2 compensation, biodiversity enhancement, and fruit harvest initiatives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

BIJZAAK places and maintains beehives on company rooftops and gardens across the Benelux region. The service covers installation of beehives and bee colonies, regular inspections by professional beekeepers, honey harvesting, and complementary offerings such as planting advice, biodiversity workshops and lectures, the Bijendak certificate, and a tree sponsorship initiative (Bomen voor Bedrijven).

Product overview

BIJZAAK operates as an urban beekeeping service provider offering a comprehensive suite of products centered around bee colony placement and maintenance on commercial properties. The core offering is the Urban Beekeeping Service, which encompasses the placement, inspection, and maintenance of beehives along with honey harvest. This core service is complemented by add-on offerings including Plant Advice for insect-friendly landscaping, Workshops and Lectures for biodiversity education, the Bijendak Certificate for recognition, the Bomen voor Bedrijven tree sponsorship initiative, and an Adopteer een Bijenvolk adoption program for companies without suitable locations. The service is delivered through experienced beekeepers who handle all aspects of hive management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Beekeeping Service (Bijenkasten Plaatsing en Onderhoud)

Quantifiable outcome

• One bee colony visits approximately 20 million flowers daily and covers a 3km radius (more than 25 square kilometers)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers38 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Bijenbaas B.V.coreOthersBijzaak is a subsidiary brand of Bijenbaas B.V., which operates hundreds of bee colonies across Dutch natural areas. Bijenbaas handles larger-scale nature area beekeeping while Bijzaak focuses on urban corporate beekeeping. The parent company provides operational infrastructure, training programs for beekeepers, and administrative support. Headquarters are shared at Overboeicop 19 in Schoonrewoerd.
• Houtnijverij (Syndion)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHoutnijverij, part of Syndion organization, produces sustainable wooden Bijendak certificates for companies participating in the program. The certificates are made from sustainable wood by approximately 20 motivated clients with physical and/or intellectual disabilities, contributing to both ecological sustainability and sustainable employment for people at a distance from the labor market.
• Fruit Your WorldminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership exploration with Fruit Your World, a Dutch organization with mission to provide everyone a fruit tree. Collaboration aims at combining bee conservation with tree planting initiatives. Shared goals include planting trees to help nature, insects, and birds, and promoting social cohesion through shared fruit harvesting.
• AristacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration between Arista, Bijenbaas, and Bijzaak focused on addressing bee mortality, particularly targeting the varroa mite that has decimated bee populations worldwide. The partnership aims to develop solutions for bee colony health and survival through research and specialized treatment methods including oxalic acid vaporization for mite control.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Heimgart: Berlin-based urban beekeeping startup placing and maintaining beehives for corporate customers in Germany. Earlier-stage player in an adjacent European geography with overlapping corporate sustainability target customers.

Direct peers

• Urban Bees (London): London-based urban beekeeping initiative installing beehives on commercial and institutional rooftops in the UK. Comparable in scale and service offering to Bijzaak, operating in an adjacent European geography.
• Bee Downtown: US-based corporate beekeeping operator installing and managing hives at corporate campuses. Uses a comparable direct B2B sales motion and enterprise customer base to Bijzaak, though concentrated in the southeastern United States.
• Alvéole: Montreal-based urban beekeeping service placing and maintaining beehives on corporate rooftops across North America with a B2B subscription model very similar to Bijzaak's. Operates the most directly comparable corporate urban-beekeeping offering in the market.
• The Best Bees Company: Boston-headquartered urban beekeeping service running commercial beehive programs at corporate properties across the US Northeast. Direct comparable in scope of operations and target customer profile to Bijzaak's BeNeLux service.

Broad incumbents

• Bijenbaas B.V. Parent company of Bijzaak operating hundreds of bee colonies across Dutch nature areas and providing broader apiculture infrastructure that Bijzaak draws on. Acts as both parent and adjacent broader operator in the Dutch bee space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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