What Science Object Oriented Products & Systems Soops B.v. does

Soops B.V. (Science Object Oriented Products & Systems) is a privately held Dutch enterprise software firm founded in 1992 in Amsterdam as the first company in the Netherlands dedicated to object-oriented technology. It develops mission-critical software across four practice areas: the EuroLight™ Suite for European power exchange trading, matching, clearing, settlement, and risk management; the SITRA/ARTIS system for agricultural data registration, validation, processing, and regulatory reporting; proprietary air quality monitoring stations and neural-network-based prediction models; and a Machine Learning service line covering RAG-based chatbots and LLM fine-tuning. Its flagship energy market platform is deployed in 11 countries covering 12 market areas, 14 delivery zones, and more than 50% of the EU integrated electricity market, with named clients including APX, APXSpot, EpexSpot, UKPX, BELPEX, NGESO, and Wageningen Economic Research.

The firm operates a consultative, direct enterprise sales motion, typically structured as one-time licenses for trading systems, managed services for agricultural data infrastructure, professional services for advisory work, and licensing/royalties for monitoring hardware. It is ISO 27001 certified, privately held with no disclosed funding rounds or parent company, and relies on a small team of industry experts with 25 years of sector experience and very low staff turnover. Geographic reach spans Western, Northern, Central, and Southeastern Europe (Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Serbia), with no disclosed presence outside Europe.

Name

Science Object Oriented Products & Systems Soops B.v.

Legal name

Soops b.v.

Website

https://soops.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Soops B.V. is a Dutch enterprise software firm founded in 1992 that builds object-oriented trading, data, and monitoring systems for European energy markets, agriculture, air quality, and AI services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy Trading Software

akta.pro primary industry

Execution Management Systems (EMS) & Smart Order Routing (SOR) Platforms (FSAFANAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ), MLOps/LLMOps & Model Lifecycle Management Services (BPAEAHAH)

Keywords

• Energy trading software
• Marketplace trading platforms
• Agricultural data systems
• Air quality monitoring
• Object-oriented software

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Energy Market Software Systems: Supply of trading systems for European energy markets including order routing, matching, clearing, settlement, risk management, and position accounting. Systems deployed across 11 countries covering 12 market areas and 14 delivery zones.
2. Advisory and Consulting Services: Consulting and advisory services primarily focused on energy markets and utilities. Services include product design advice, market and clearing rules, and process definition. Provided by industry experts with 25 years of experience.
3. Air Quality Monitoring Solutions: Own measurement stations and sensor units deployed for air quality monitoring, including participation in European projects and deployment of stations for GGD and RIVM calibration purposes.
4. Agricultural Data Management Systems: Maintenance, development, and support of ARTIS/SITRA systems for agricultural data registration, validation, processing, and monitoring. Supports administrative processes, regulatory compliance, and decision-making.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Soops develops and supplies object-oriented enterprise software for European energy market operators, covering order routing, matching, clearing, settlement, risk management, and position accounting. The company also delivers agricultural data management systems (SITRA/ARTIS), proprietary air quality monitoring stations with AI-based prediction, and machine learning services including RAG chatbots and LLM fine-tuning.

Product overview

Soops offers a portfolio of specialized software solutions centered on object-oriented technology. The core offerings include the EuroLight™ Suite for energy market trading systems and the SITRA/ARTIS system for agricultural data management. The company also provides air quality monitoring solutions with proprietary sensor stations and machine learning services. The trading solutions span order routing, matching, clearing, settlement, and risk management for European electricity markets. The agricultural systems handle data collection, validation, and analysis for regulatory compliance and policy support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EuroLight™: Award-winning suite of Exchange systems developed for the Amsterdam Power Exchange (APX), UK Power Exchange (UKPX), and Belgian Power Exchange (BELPEX). Supports spot and futures, auction and continuous trading systems.
• ARTIS
• SITRA

Products and services

• EuroLight™ Suite Award-winning suite of Exchange systems developed for the Amsterdam Power Exchange (APX), UK Power Exchange (UKPX), and Belgian Power Exchange (BELPEX). The product-agnostic systems support spot, futures, auction, and continuous trading systems across European energy markets.
• Marketplace Trading Solutions Comprehensive software for trading and matching that is product-agnostic and designed to adapt to changing market needs. Includes order routing, matching and execution, clearing and settlement, risk management, position accounting, and workflow management for energy market operators across 11 European countries.
• SITRA Advanced agricultural data management system that evolved from ARTIS, integrating data from various open and closed sources. Capable of collecting, securing, enriching data, and making predictions to support administrative processes, regulatory compliance, and decision-making.
• Air Quality Monitoring System Proprietary measurement stations and sensor units deployed in the field that measure air quality. Stations measure air pressure, CO, CO2, humidity, NH3, NO, NO2, O3, PM10, PM2.5, SO2, temperature, wind direction, and wind speed per minute. Over 20 stations in Amsterdam-Noord region.
• Machine Learning Services AI and machine learning capabilities including neural networks for air quality prediction, RAG-based chatbots for internal documentation retrieval, and LLM fine-tuning with proprietary codebase to increase accuracy and relevance for unique organizational needs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Solutions deployed in 11 countries covering over 50% of EU integrated electricity market
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WEcR (Wageningen Economic Research)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWEcR (part of Wageningen University & Research) is a key partner for Soops in the agricultural sector. Soops provides maintenance, development, and support for the ARTIS/SITRA system, which WEcR uses for collecting and reporting agricultural data reflecting national agricultural and livestock status. This partnership supports policy making at the highest level.
• GGDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGGD (Community Health Service) hosts Soops air quality measurement stations for calibration purposes. Three stations are located at GGD locations alongside RIVM stations for calibration validation.
• RIVMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) collaborates with Soops on air quality monitoring. Three stations are located at RIVM for calibration purposes alongside GGD stations.
• MEF4CAP ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean project (https://mef4cap.eu/) for registration of emissions from agricultural companies. Soops participates in this EU-funded initiative for agricultural emission tracking.
• European Energy Market OperatorscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoops has been involved in major European day-ahead market coupling projects, starting with the FR-BE-NL Trilateral Coupling. The company has provided market coupling systems to various European energy market operators across 11 countries.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Triple Point Technology (IMC): Triple Point (now part of ION/IMC) offers commodity trading and risk management platforms for energy and agricultural firms. Its multi-asset trading and matching capabilities are comparable to Soops' EuroLight product-agnostic suite.
• Eka Software Solutions (Eka.ai): Eka Software provides commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) platforms for energy, agriculture, and metals firms. Its product-agnostic trading and matching capabilities overlap with Soops' EuroLight range, particularly for commodity and cross-border trading.
• Openlink (ION): Openlink, part of ION Group, provides end-to-end trading and risk management platforms (Findur, Openlink Endur) for energy and commodities firms and exchanges. It competes with Soops in exchange and utility trading system deployments.
• Volue: Volue (formerly Nardini) supplies software for energy trading, power exchange operations, and grid optimization across European markets. Its Energy Market Management suite overlaps directly with Soops' order routing, matching, and clearing/settlement positioning.
• Trayport: Trayport (owned by TMX Group) is the dominant electronic trading network for European wholesale energy markets, providing order routing, trade matching, and analytics to brokers, exchanges, and utilities. It is the closest direct competitor to Soops' EuroLight suite in European power and gas exchange infrastructure.
• Granular (Corteva): Granular (owned by Corteva) provides farm management information systems and data analytics for agricultural operators. It is comparable to Soops' SITRA/ARTIS agricultural data management business, though operating at significantly larger scale.

Emerging players

• Vaisala: Vaisala is a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, including air quality monitoring stations and sensors. It is comparable to Soops' air quality monitoring network, though it operates globally and at much greater scale.

Broad incumbents

• FIS (Capital Markets): FIS (formerly SunGard) sells large-scale trading, clearing, and post-trade platforms widely used by exchanges and energy firms. As a broad incumbent, it competes for the same power exchange contracts as Soops but serves a much wider portfolio of financial and energy clients.
• Murex: Murex provides a cross-asset trading, risk, and post-trade platform used by utilities, energy traders, and exchanges. It competes with Soops in the clearing, settlement, and risk management layers of European energy markets.
• Itiviti (Broadway Technology/Itiviti): Itiviti (now part of Broadridge) provides adaptive trading and connectivity solutions to exchanges, brokers, and asset managers across asset classes, including energy. It competes with Soops in exchange-side trading infrastructure at a larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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