Chrysalix

Wal van Lierop, Founding Partner and CEO, sets the firm's investment direction after more than two decades leading the platform. He works alongside a partnership group that includes Fred van Beuningen and senior investors with prior operational roles at Shell, McKinsey, and industrial-tech startups. The firm emphasizes principal investors who bring engineering and operating experience to the boardroom rather than a pure finance background.

The RoboValley Fund is a strategic vehicle co-anchored by industrial LPs and concentrated exclusively on intelligent systems — industrial robotics, advanced sensing, and autonomous operations for the resource, manufacturing, and logistics sectors. The main Chrysalix Venture Capital funds maintain a broader mandate across energy transition, carbon management, and materials innovation. RoboValley also leverages a deep sourcing partnership with TU Delft in the Netherlands.

The firm invests primarily across North America and Europe. Its headquarters is in Vancouver, Canada, while a second office in Delft, Netherlands anchors European deal flow and provides proximity to the TU Delft robotics and engineering ecosystem. Portfolio companies have been sourced from both continents.

Chrysalix does not invest in consumer software, enterprise SaaS lacking a physical-world interface, biotech, or pure financial-services technology. The firm's mandate is explicitly defined by a thesis on the industrial energy and resource transition, excluding anything purely digital that does not touch physical infrastructure or industrial systems.