What FIXbrigade Nederland does

Stichting FIXbrigade Nederland is a Dutch non-profit foundation (ANBI-status, RSIN 864593235) established on 24 November 2022 and headquartered at Jaarbeursplein 22 in Utrecht, operating from a Buurkracht office. The organization supports Dutch municipalities and local parties in setting up and developing "FIXbrigades" — community-based volunteer initiatives that help households install energy-saving measures. Since founding, the foundation reports it has become active in 30 municipalities and assisted 25,022 households, generating €8.4 million in annual household energy bill savings and avoiding 9,620 tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to its published impact reports.

The foundation's core offering bundles advisory services with a proprietary software product called FIXtool, which local FIXbrigades use to coordinate energy-saving operations. The service package includes ongoing regional coordinator support, financing guidance, project planning, material procurement assistance, stakeholder management, personnel recruitment, training of master craftsmen ("leermeesters"), work-learning trajectory design, communication support, and access to a national network. FIXtool is positioned as an internal coordination and project management tool rather than a customer-facing application.

FIXbrigade Nederland operates as a public benefit organization without profit motive. All revenues are derived from subsidies and grants, and all support services to municipalities and local parties are provided entirely free of charge ("geheel kosteloos"). The foundation publishes annual impact reports (2023 and 2024) and a policy plan, maintaining an explicitly transparent financial posture consistent with Dutch ANBI requirements. It partners strategically with Stichting Energiebank Nederland for joint subsidy-program execution and coordinates with a network of Dutch municipalities as primary counterparties.

Name

FIXbrigade Nederland

Legal name

Stichting FIXbrigade Nederland

Website

https://fixbrigade.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stichting FIXbrigade Nederland is a Dutch ANBI non-profit foundation that helps municipalities establish local FIXbrigades to install household energy-saving measures, providing free coordination, training, financing support, and its FIXtool software, funded through subsidies and grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Energy Efficiency Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD)

Keywords

• Energy efficiency programs
• Community energy brigades
• Municipal sustainability support
• Household energy savings
• Non-profit energy initiatives

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subsidy and Grant Funding: As a non-profit organization (ANBI) without profit motive, FIXbrigade Nederland operates through subsidies and grant funding. All revenues and income are used to maintain the organization and fund projects.
2. Partnership Programs: Works with Stichting Energiebank Nederland within subsidy programs, sharing resources and contact data for joint program execution.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

FIXbrigade Nederland provides municipalities and local parties with free, end-to-end support to set up and develop local "FIXbrigades" — community-based teams that install energy-saving measures in households. The support package includes a regional coordinator, financing guidance, project planning, material procurement assistance, stakeholder management, recruitment, master-teacher training, work-learning trajectory setup, communication support, and access to a national network. As part of this package, the foundation supplies its proprietary FIXtool software to local brigades to manage and coordinate energy-saving operations.

Product overview

FIXbrigade Nederland is a nonprofit foundation (ANBI) that provides free support to municipalities and local organizations to establish and develop local FIXbrigades. Their offering consists primarily of advisory services, coordination support, and their software product called FIXtool. The core service includes regional coordinator support, financing assistance, project planning guidance, material procurement help, training for master craftsmen, work-learning trajectory setup, and access to a national network. FIXtool serves as their software component to support local operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FIXtool: A software tool provided to support local FIXbrigades in their operations.

Products and services

• FIXtool

Quantifiable outcome

• 25,022 households helped with energy-saving measures
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Stichting Energiebank NederlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn the context of certain subsidy programs, Stichting FIXbrigade Nederland works together with Stichting Energiebank Nederland. Business contact details may be shared or made accessible for this partner to the extent necessary for the execution of joint activities. A data processing agreement has been concluded within the subsidy program.
• Dutch Municipalities (Gemeenten)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIXbrigade Nederland supports municipalities and local parties entirely free of charge in establishing and developing local FIXbrigades. Support includes regional coordinator assistance, financing guidance, software tools, project planning, and access to national network.

Scale indicators5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Buurkracht: Dutch community-energy platform (initiated by Eneco) that helps neighborhoods organize local sustainable energy and energy-saving initiatives. Highly comparable community-led, municipality-aligned GTM, and is also FIXbrigade Nederland's host office location.
• Hier Opgewekt: Dutch knowledge and support platform for local sustainable energy initiatives, advising municipalities and local groups on setting up community energy projects. Closely comparable mission of enabling local energy-saving and renewable projects in the Netherlands.
• Stichting Energiebank Nederland: Dutch non-profit providing free energy-saving advice and small interventions to households in energy poverty. Directly comparable mission and household-level delivery model, and already a formal subsidy-program partner of FIXbrigade Nederland.
• Klimaatverbond Nederland: Dutch association of municipalities working together on climate and energy programs. Comparable target customer (Dutch municipalities) and similar positioning as a convening and program-support body for local climate action.

Broad incumbents

• Urgenda: Leading Dutch organization driving climate action across sectors through litigation, advocacy and programs. Comparable climate-mission orientation in the Netherlands, but operates at a much broader national level rather than local brigade delivery.
• Natuur & Milieu: Major Dutch environmental federation advocating sustainability policy and consumer behavior change. Comparable non-profit, Dutch-focused environmental mission, but operates at advocacy and policy level rather than household-level service delivery.

Emerging players

• Greenwish: Dutch sustainability organization connecting corporates, governments and citizens around sustainability initiatives. Thematically adjacent to FIXbrigade's community-driven climate work, with comparable Dutch non-profit structure.
• Stichting Woon!: Dutch foundation focused on housing affordability and quality, including energy-cost burden for lower-income households. Comparable social-mission overlap around energy poverty and household-level support in the Netherlands.

Others

• Eneco (cooperative programs): Major Dutch energy company running community-energy and energy-saving programs (including the Buurkracht platform). Comparable ecosystem role as an infrastructure and funding enabler for community energy-saving initiatives in the Netherlands.

Regional players

• MilieuCentraal: Dutch information organization providing consumers with energy-saving and sustainability advice, whose impact data sources are cited in FIXbrigade Nederland's own reporting. Comparable focus on residential energy efficiency in the Netherlands.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fixbrigade-nederland

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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