Dutch Founders Fund
dff.ventures Direct investor
Early-stage VC firm investing in digital solutions for non-digital industries, especially marketplaces and vertical SaaS, across EMEA.
Dutch Founders Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in marketplaces, vertical SaaS, Tech-Enabled Services and marketplace Enablers. Its stated cheque size is €250k up to €3m. €150M+ under management and 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in underdigitized verticals”
— Dutch Founders Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Invests in
- EMEA
- Sectors
- Marketplaces, Vertical SaaS, Tech-Enabled Services, Marketplace Enablers
- Cheque size
- €250k up to €3m
- Founded
- 2018
- Assets under management
- €150M+
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as Dutch Founders Fund publishes it
- Laurens Groenendijk Founding Partner
- Patrick Kerssemakers Founding Partner
- Hidde Hoogcarspel Founding Partner
- Federico Maroli Investor
- Joana Reis Pereira Investor
- Maarten Plomp Investor
- Bas Beerens Venture Partner & Co-founder | Branding
- Remco van Zanten Venture Partner & Co-founder | Strategy & Scale
- Maarten Engelen Venture Partner | Product & Tech
- Tom Koenderman Venture Partner | Ops & Tech
- Sjoerd Nikkelen Venture Partner | Recommerce
- Joost van Rheenen Investor Relations
Names and roles exactly as listed on dff.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Dutch Founders Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.dff.ventures/name, website, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, cheque_size, aum, portfolio_count, stage_min, stage_max, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, founded, is_investor, layer, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.dff.ventures/focusinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
- https://www.dff.ventures/thoughts/dff-ventures-opens-eu50m-fund-iii-to-back-vertical-ai-recommerce-marketplacesportfolio_count
- https://www.dff.ventures/teampeople
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Record 94 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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