We are Tarucca.
A Dutch deep-tech company building the intelligence layer for high-value physical infrastructure. Founded in 2020 in Brainport Eindhoven, owned by its founders, and led by engineers.
Solving one of the harder problems in the energy transition
Tarucca Technology B.V. is an Eindhoven-based company founded to answer a specific question: how do you keep critical infrastructure safe, efficient and productive across its full intended lifetime, when you cannot easily go and look at it?
We started with wind turbine blades, the single most expensive and hardest-to-inspect component in a wind farm. Today we work across blades, mooring lines and subsea power cables, and the same philosophy has taken us onto bridges, into manufacturing plants in the Brainport region, and into the defence domain: embed intelligence into the asset, give operators real insight, and remove inspection and maintenance that is not earning its keep.
We are a small, focused team with deep expertise in three intersecting domains: AI and data science, photonic and optical sensing, and structural dynamics. We are part of the Dutch photonics ecosystem through PhotonDelta, active in offshore wind innovation consortia, and partnered with Eindhoven University of Technology for funded research.
We believe the energy transition depends not only on building more renewable infrastructure, but on making that infrastructure smarter, more resilient and longer-lived. That is what we are building.
- Founded
- 2020, in Brainport Eindhoven, on the TU Eindhoven campus.
- Ownership
- Owned entirely by the founders.
- Size
- Around 8 people, with expertise in AI, data science, software development, systems engineering and integration.
- Funding
- Government and bank loans, and research and development subsidies. No outside shareholders.
- Where we work
- Wind energy, civil infrastructure, manufacturing, and the defence domain.
Transform high-value infrastructure assets, from offshore wind farms to industrial systems, into climate-friendly, resilient and intelligent systems.
We address obsolescence, costly maintenance and a lack of adaptability by embedding fibre optic sensing, multidimensional time-series modelling and AI into physical assets. The goal is infrastructure that monitors itself, optimises its use and lasts longer, with zero unplanned downtime, zero unnecessary inspection and maintenance, zero waste, and zero safety or cybersecurity incidents.
Transform. Monitor. Sustain.
Infrastructure that thinks for itself
We envision a world where high-value infrastructure assets think for themselves and operate in harmony with the planet. Every structure equipped to sense, understand and act on its own condition. Failures predicted before they happen. Maintenance intelligent, circular and minimal. The line between physical and digital vanishing, enabling resilient, climate-positive systems that need fewer resources yet deliver more.
In that future, humans stay in the loop where their judgement and expertise matter most, and the infrastructure takes care of the rest.
Founded and led by engineers
Tarucca is built by people who understand both the physics of the assets and what AI can genuinely do with the data those assets produce.
Hans van Beek
Co-founder and CEOHans leads Tarucca's commercial strategy, partnerships and business development. With a background spanning industrial systems, sensors and technology ventures, he brings the perspective of someone who has seen infrastructure challenges from both the engineering and the commercial side.
Jesse van Kempen
Co-founder and CTOJesse leads technical development, from sensor system design and data pipelines through to AI model development and digital twin architecture. His expertise spans photonics, structural dynamics and machine learning, which gives Tarucca the rare ability to integrate deep physics understanding with modern data science.
Hernani Costa
Co-founder and Chief Data and AI OfficerHernani drives Tarucca's data science and AI strategy. His expertise in machine learning, time-series analysis and applied AI sits at the core of how Tarucca turns raw sensor measurement into insight that an operator can act on with confidence.
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