EU-controlledchecked 2026-10-18
A primary document names a controlling owner based in the EU.
- Legal entity
- Blender Institute B.V. (working company of Stichting Blender Foundation) (NL)
- Register id
- KvK 34276786
- LEI
- 894500AERMUVTYPA4758 · ISSUED · renews 2027-11-07
- What GLEIF shows
- Reports no parent (exception). reporting exception: NATURAL_PERSONS
- Controlling owner, from documents
- Stichting Blender Foundation (Dutch non-profit foundation, no shareholders) (NL; EU)
- Control type
- largest-shareholder-filing
- Listed on
- buy-european.net, europeanpurpose.com, goeuropean.org, only-eu.eu
- Category
- Creative software
- Source
- download.blender.org
- GLEIF record
- 894500AERMUVTYPA4758
Our notes
Blender Foundation Annual Report 2025 (edition September 2026), chairman's message: the founder, sole shareholder of Blender Institute since 2007, began legal steps in 2020 to move ownership to the Foundation, and 'This was finalized by the end of 2025'; he 'also transferred his shared and sole ownership of Blender Studio and Blender Institute to Blender Foundation'. GLEIF (re-queried 2026-10-18) still reports NATURAL_PERSONS, the pre-transfer state, so GLEIF and the annual report disagree. Not confirmed with a KvK extract (paid). The verdict rests on the Foundation's own report. The software itself is GPL open source.
