Dutch Founders Fund

Total investments

12

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

2.40

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Asset ManagementVenture CapitalInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyAppsEducationWealth Management

Summary

Dutch Founders Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Amsterdam. The venture was found in Europe in The Netherlands.

This organization was formed by Bas Beerens, Laurens Groenendijk, Patrick Kerssemakers. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the Dutch Founders Fund, startups are often financed by Volta Ventures, Startupbootcamp Amsterdam, Startupbootcamp. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volta Ventures, KBC Focus Fund, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Blanco Services Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Logistics, Education. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - The Netherlands.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
2.40
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (3)
  • Apps (3)
  • Asset Management (2)
  • Venture Capital (2)
  • Wealth Management (2)
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Investments by region
  • Netherlands (7)
  • Germany (3)
  • The Netherlands (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Group Appearance index
0.67

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
YourCampus 28 Oct 2021 Human Resources, Apps Seed 590K Noord-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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