Company history/background
The company is a young real estate company (founded in 2025), specialized in the development of natural burial grounds.
The company purchases, leases, or manages land at the hectare level and transforms it into representative, profitable locations. The primary revenue model is the issuance of burial rights for periods of 10, 25, and 50 years, with healthy margins and additional cross-selling opportunities.
The primary revenue model is the issuance of burial rights for periods of 10, 25, and 50 years, with healthy margins and additional cross-selling opportunities.
The company is responding to stable and structural market demand. The sale of burial rights at natural burial grounds has grown by an average of 35% per year over the past decades and will continue to increase over the next 25 years, partly due to the aging population. This is leading to a shortage of more than 3,000 hectares of suitable land.
With only 42 natural burial grounds compared to over 4,000 traditional cemeteries, there is clear growth potential. The company focuses specifically on small-scale locations that cater to the needs of the local community.
Company activities
Despite its young age, the company has already built traction, partly thanks to the experience and background of the founders: a growing pipeline of future locations is in development. With additional capital (EUR 500,000, minimum ticket size EUR 100,000), the company aims to accelerate this trajectory and expand into a prominent player in the Dutch market, with a vision for international expansion.
In addition to the issuance of burial rights, the model offers scope for additional revenue from cross-selling, such as memorial trees, plaques, and collaborations with local funeral directors. The result is a capital-efficient and scalable model with predictable, long-term revenue streams and structurally high margins.
The team consists of a powerful mix of expertise: partners with experience in a similar concept in England, a legal authority specializing in cemeteries, and two impact and finance professionals specializing in real estate portfolio management for wealthy families.
Unique selling points
Investment need:
Two possibilities for collaboration from an investment perspective:
1: Participation in the holding company and/or in the operating companies. Each future cemetery will be housed in a separate subsidiary of the holding company.
2: Investment at holding level: One-time option to acquire a position in the holding company. Guarantee on shares in future domestic and international locations. First preferential right to potentially participate additionally in new locations. Subscription at the property/operating company level. Option to acquire a minority share per location. Investment requirement varies per location, depending on the type of agreement (purchase or lease), type of land (forest, agriculture), and number of square meters. Only opened when the holding company or shareholders decide not to realize the investment independently or with bank financing. Investment properties are shared via email with fixed metrics. First investment opportunity in 2026 (provided it is not fully subscribed by holding company participants).
Other
As of today, there is no revenue because natural burial grounds are dependent on permit processes.
Our goal is to have at least two locations operational within three years and thereafter to open 1–2 new locations annually. An extensive data room is available for investors with budgets at both holding and property levels.
The budgets are based on income over a period of 50 years.
Experience in real estate investments is a plus.
It is expected that a turnover of +/- EUR 200,000 will be achieved in the first year. It is expected that there will be a return of +/- 17% on operations.
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