Munisense welcomes strategic investment from Lexar Partners to accelerate European expansion in environmental sensing and monitoring

Leiderdorp, August 28, 2025 – Munisense, a Dutch market leader in cloud-native, sensor-agnostic environmental sensing monitoring SaaS platform in the water and noise domain, has secured a strategic investment from Lexar Partners (Lexar). The partnership provides Munisense with the resources and expertise to accelerate its international growth across Northwestern Europe and broaden its portfolio to deliver actionable insights across new environmental domains beyond water and noise, providing the foundation for a buy-and-build growth strategy.

Munisense will continue to operate under its trusted brand, with co-founders Hans Mulder and George Boersma remaining in leadership roles to ensure strategic continuity. With Lexar’s backing, Munisense will accelerate product development, expand its applications across environmental domains, and strengthen its ability to serve municipalities, regulators, and enterprises seeking real-time monitoring solutions.

“Our platform has always been about making complex environmental insights simple and actionable,” said Hans Mulder, Co-founder of Munisense. “With Lexar’s support, we can innovate faster and bring our technology to more customers throughout Europe.” Co-founder George Boersma added: “This step allows us to reinforce our leadership in noise and water monitoring, while expanding into adjacent fields and new geographies.”

Lexar Partners brings expertise, capital, and a strong network to guide Munisense through its next growth phase. “We were impressed by Munisense’s scalable cloud platform, designed with a platform-first architecture that supports both proprietary and third-party hardware and is reinforced by long-term customer relationships,” said James Looman, Partner at Lexar. “This strong foundation creates a unique opportunity to accelerate growth through a buy-and-build strategy, expanding into a leading environmental sensing and monitoring platform that delivers real-time, actionable insights across multiple domains.”

About Munisense

Munisense, based in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, develops cloud-native, sensor-agnostic solutions for real-time environmental monitoring. Its technology enables municipalities, regulators, and enterprises to measure and manage noise, water, and other environmental factors with precision and scalability.

With a team of 22 professionals, Munisense has more than doubled its revenue in the past three years while maintaining strong profitability. Building on this momentum, the company is well positioned to expand internationally and play a leading role in shaping the future of environmental monitoring.

About Lexar Partners

Lexar Partners is an independent Dutch private equity firm focused on companies with a strong emphasis on innovation and digitalisation. Lexar invests in exceptional people who apply outstanding technology to transform global and growing markets digitally. This includes fast-growing and scalable businesses active in the lower mid-market with proven market potential where digitalisation makes the difference. By offering capital and active guidance, Lexar supports its partners in their phases of accelerated growth.

The investment marks the second platform investment of Lexar Partners Fund II (bringing the total number of partnerships to 10). The fund targets companies with strong growth profiles and EBITDA up to EUR 5m, with initial equity tickets typically ranging from EUR 5–20m per (initial) investment.