London - Amsterdam - San Francisco Bay Area - Copenhagen - Zurich | Netherlands
| Investor Type | Firm |
| Type of Fund | VC |
| Industries | Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Material Science • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused |
| Stages | Early,Seed,Later, Series A, Pre-seed |
| Investing | United States • Germany • France • Italy • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • Netherlands • Portugal • Belgium • Hungary • Poland • Ukraine • Luxembourg • Romania • Slovenia |
| Investment Range | $100,000 - $5,000,000 |
| Investment Sweet Spot | $1,500,000 |
| Assets Under Management | $100,000,000 |
About The Fund
Dutch Founders Fund (DFF) is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a keen focus on investing in digital solutions for non-digital industries. They invest in a broad spectrum of sectors including Software (Web Marketplace SaaS), Hospitality & Events, Education, Business Solutions, FinTech & Financial Services, Hardware & Manufacturing, Retail & E-Commerce, Sales & Marketing, HealthTech & Fitness, Material Science, Real Estate & Construction, Healthcare & Wellness, Mobility, Online Social, Consumer, and Woman Focused areas. The fund engages in minority investments in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage companies, and Series A, with a diverse portfolio reflecting an international footprint, including 25+ nationalities across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. With a comprehensive understanding of B2B SaaS and Marketplace companies drawn from their entrepreneurial backgrounds founding companies like WeTransfer, Just Eat, Hiber, Treatwell, and fonQ, they provide a no-nonsense approach to company building, valuing entrepreneurial grit over polished presentations. They favor underdigitized verticals, investing particularly in niche SaaS solutions, marketplace models (B2B, B2B2C, consumer transactional models), tech-enabled services, and marketplace enablers catering to efficiency and automation. Their operational prowess is illustrated by their active involvement and the fostering of a big-picture mindset for long-term goals, reflecting their operational and strategic support for their portfolio companies. Beyond just funding, DFF is dedicated to being highly operational and fostering a big-picture mindset among their founders. With assets under management of €85 million, they have formed 36 partnerships with companies, some of which remain in stealth mode. Entrepreneurs seeking early-stage capital where investment sizes range from a minimum of €100,000 to a maximum of €5,000,000, with a sweet spot at €1,500,000, may find an ally in DFF's investment philosophy.
What they say:
We invest in B2B Saas and Marketplace companies. This due our entrepeneurial backgrounds as founders in that space. We do these globally but our focus is mainly European Start-ups.
Dutch Founders Fund's investments on record
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