Tective’s SkyHive drone system is providing aerial security at Kamp Heumensoord this week. The camp is a temporary base housing thousands of Dutch and allied troops taking part in the Nijmegen Four Days Marches, the annual long-distance walking event that draws tens of thousands of civilian and military participants globally. The Netherlands Ministry of Defense announced the deployment on 20 July 2026 as the first concrete result of SecFund, its €100M investment fund for dual-use technology, one year after the fund opened.

SkyHive is a platform that deploys and recharges multiple drones automatically. Persistent aerial surveillance runs without an operator flying each aircraft, which frees the operators to focus on analysing the picture and making decisions. For a camp of this size, that means continuous overwatch from a system a small team can run.

Tective, based in the Dutch engineering city of Delft, is a Tenzing Alpha portfolio company. We backed the team at seed stage and work alongside them through our Lead Partner model: weekly contact on operational matters from qualification to procurement. This deployment is what our thesis looks like in practice: a Dutch technical team building a system with commercial pull and strategic relevance, now in service with the armed forces.

Arceon, also in our portfolio, appears on the same Ministry of Defense list of SecFund-backed companies. This Delft-based team builds lightweight, temperature-resistant ceramic composites for rockets and satellites, and holds certification from the European Space Agency. Two of the seven companies backed by SecFund are part of the Tenzing portfolio.

SecFund matters well beyond a single deployment. The Ministry's fund invests in early stage companies and alongside private co-investors, with two goals: strategically relevant technology reaching the armed forces faster, and reduced Dutch dependence on foreign suppliers. Tenzing Alpha is one of those co-investors, and Tective's deployment at Heumensoord shows this cooperative structure at work — public capital sets the direction, private seed capital finds the teams, with our Lead Partner model supporting commercialization, scale, deployment of technology.

Tenzing Alpha is a Dutch seed-stage fund for dual-use technology. We back Netherlands-based founders building systems with commercial pull and strategic relevance, from first cheque to Series A.

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