Dutch Student Investment Fund (DSIF)
dsif.nl Direct investor
DSIF is Europe's first student-run venture capital fund, established in 2016, investing in startups created by bachelor and master students, PhDs, and recent graduates from University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences.
Dutch Student Investment Fund (DSIF) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Enschede, Netherlands, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in edtech, cleantech and environmental. Its stated cheque size is €5,000–€10,000.
“DSIF invests in startups created by bachelor, master, PhD students or recent graduates from the University of Twente or Saxion University of Applied Sciences.”
— Dutch Student Investment Fund (DSIF), own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Enschede, Netherlands
- Invests in
- Netherlands, Overijssel
- Sectors
- edtech, cleantech, environmental
- Cheque size
- €5,000–€10,000
- Founded
- 2016
Team, as Dutch Student Investment Fund (DSIF) publishes it
- Fabian Lahdo President
- Maurits Weenink Finance Director
- Denis Yordanova Marketing Director
- Dimitris Antonopoulus Deal Flow Director
- Tim Posthuma Senior Board Advisor
- Albert-Jan de Croes Senior Board Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on dsif.nl. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 1 co-investors found.
- Rockstart 1 shared company: clairify.io
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Dutch Student Investment Fund (DSIF) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.dsif.nlis_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, founded
- https://www.dsif.nl/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://www.dsif.nl/home/team/people
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Record 122 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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