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We are Tarucca

A Dutch deep-tech company building the intelligence layer for the world's renewable offshore infrastructure.

Who We Are

Tarucca Technology B.V. is an Eindhoven-based company founded to solve one of the hardest problems in the energy transition: how to keep critical offshore infrastructure safe, efficient, and productive over its full intended lifetime.

We started with wind turbine blades — the single most expensive and hard-to-inspect component in a wind farm. Today we work across blades, mooring lines, and subsea power cables, applying the same core philosophy in each case: embed intelligence into the asset, give operators real insight, and eliminate unnecessary inspections and maintenance.

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 R&D.

We believe that the energy transition depends not just on building more renewable infrastructure, but on making that infrastructure smarter, more resilient, and longer-lived. That is what we are building.

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Transform. Monitor. Sustain.

Tarucca's mission is to transform high-value infrastructure assets — from offshore wind farms to industrial systems — into climate-friendly, resilient, and intelligent systems.

We address today's challenges of obsolescence, costly maintenance, and lack of adaptability by embedding fiber-optic sensing technologies, multidimensional time-series modelling, and AI into physical assets.

Our goal: infrastructure that monitors itself, optimises its use, and lasts longer — with zero unplanned downtime, zero unnecessary inspections and maintenance, zero waste, and zero safety or cybersecurity incidents.

By combining digital intelligence with human oversight, Tarucca is building infrastructure that sustains itself, and the planet.

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 is equipped to sense, understand, and act on its own condition.

Failures are predicted before they happen. Maintenance is intelligent, circular, and minimal. The line between physical and digital vanishes — enabling resilient, climate-positive systems that require fewer resources yet deliver more.

In this future, humans are in the loop where their judgement and expertise matter most, while infrastructure takes care of the rest.

Founded and led by engineers

Tarucca is built by people who understand both the physics of offshore infrastructure and the power of AI to transform how we operate it.

Hans van Beek

Hans van Beek

Co-founder & CEO

Hans 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 commercial side.

Jesse van Kempen

Jesse van Kempen

Co-founder & CTO

Jesse leads Tarucca's technical development — from sensor system design and data pipelines to AI model development and digital twin architecture. His expertise spans photonics, structural dynamics, and machine learning, giving Tarucca the rare ability to integrate deep physics understanding with cutting-edge data science.

Hernani Costa

Hernani Costa

Co-founder & Chief Data and AI Officer

Hernani drives Tarucca's data science and AI strategy. His expertise in machine learning, time-series analysis, and applied AI is at the core of how Tarucca turns raw sensor signals into operational intelligence. He ensures that Tarucca's models are rigorous, scalable, and genuinely useful in the field.

Company Information

Location Eindhoven, Netherlands (TU/e Campus - Alpha)
Ecosystem PhotonDelta · NedZero · OWIC · TKI Offshore Energy
Research Eindhoven University of Technology
Networks AIRTuB ROMI · ReliaBlade2NL · OWIC
Website www.tarucca.com

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