A (pre) seed venture fund that backs founders building marketplaces and marketplace enablers of tomorrow, focusing on platforms that reimagine traditional supply chains and products with strong network effects.

Dutch Founders Fund

The Dutch Founders Fund (DFF) is an early-stage VC that primarily invests in marketplaces and network effects across Europe. Our fund is founded by founders, for founders. We look beyond spreadsheets and resolve early-stage growth-pains with lightning speed. Ready to scale together? Submit your pitch deck to basrieter@dutchfoundersfund.com


DFF (Dutch Founders Fund)

🎉 A big congrats to our portfolio company kennek for winning the Fintech Awards London 2024!

Out of more than 300 submissions, the Jury picked kennek as this year's best London-based fintech company. A mega achievement by Xavier, Thibault, Edmund and the rest of the Kennek team - especially given that London has now surpassed both NYC and SF as biggest and most important Fintech hub.

​DFF, Piton Capital, INGEN HOUSZ and Million Monkeys are hosting TNW After Drinks once again! 🍹

We've invited the best founders, investors and operators for cocktails and bites in the sunkissed courtyard at Fosbury & Sons. Will you be joining us on June 19th from 17:00 onwards?

We are almost at capacity but still have some final spots left. Are you interested in attending? Please apply via the link in the comments. We strive to have a healthy balance between investors/founders/operators. Entrance only allowed with approved tickets.

CC Wouter Vorstman, Meelf van Oosten

We are happy to announce that Alleo - formerly YourCampus has raised €5m from Mediahuis Ventures with continued participation from DFF (Dutch Founders Fund), Newion, and ROM InWest. Go check out their new rebrand too!

Fantastic to see what Florian Gendrault and his team have built in just ±2 years time. From scale-ups to corporates and from creatives to construction; people and companies are different - so why should benefits be the same? We're glad to continue backing Alleo on its mission to build the next-gen compensation and benefits platform.

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🎉 As a proud partner, we are thrilled to announce that Kees Aarts, founder and CEO of Protix, has won the prestigious Leading Entrepreneur in Tech (LET) Award 2024! The award, initiated by Techleap, recognises outstanding tech entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who are driving innovation and growth in the industry

The jury, which included our very own Laurens Groenendijk, Gillian Tans (Techleap, Booking.com) Matthijs Welle (Mews), and Job van der Voort (Remote) had a tough decision to make as all candidates have made amazing strides in the Dutch tech community, however, the jury felt that Kees Aarts showed exceptional leadership skills and resilience and is, without a doubt, the rightful winner of the LET Award 2024. Congrats Kees!

We are excited to announce our partnership with the Leading Entrepreneur in Tech (LET) Award, presented by Techleap - including our very own Laurens Groenendijk as a jury member 🤝

The LET Awards are granted to the best tech entrepreneurs that our country has to offer. The contesters are selected based on overall growth, diversity and rate of innovation. This year's line-up is one not to be missed...

📆 Stay tuned for the big reveal of the winner at the award ceremony, set to take place at Circa in Amsterdam on April 18th! 🏆

#TechInnovation #Entrepreneurship #LETAward #TechLeadership #DutchTech

👋🏻 Great to see the Benelux ecosystem coming together at our drinks yesterday, which we co-hosted together with Syndicate One (CC Siddharth)

We welcomed a colourful mix of founders, operators, investors, and the occasional diamond professional for some pintjes and bites to kick off the FTI SuperNova event today in Antwerp. 

Thanks all for joining - see you all next year!

w/ kennek (Xavier De Pauw), 6 Degrees Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Quaestor Wealth Care, Fortino Capital, PMV, Northzone, Target Global

cc Patrick Kerssemakers, Mart, Bas

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