Graduate Entrepreneur Fund
graduate.nl Direct investor
Dutch early-stage VC backing pre-seed and seed companies from university networks. €58M fund with 80 investments made.
Graduate Entrepreneur Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in deep tech, quantum computing, biotech and climate tech. Its stated cheque size is €75K–€2M. €58M under management and 80 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back founders with capital, knowledge, and a high-trust community. Our goal is to help build the companies of the future in critical sectors - strengthening a competitive and sovereign Netherlands.”
— Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Invests in
- NL
- Sectors
- deep tech, quantum computing, biotech, climate tech
- Cheque size
- €75K–€2M
- Assets under management
- €58M
- Portfolio
- 80 companies
Team, as Graduate Entrepreneur Fund publishes it
- Auke van den Hout Managing Partner
- Filip Cuypers Principal Seed
- Julia Knoeff Head of Platform
- Victor de Leeuw Principal Seed
- Sophie Heijenberg Investor Seed
- Rui Li Associate Principal Seed
- Eva Post Head of Pre-Seed Fund
- Daan Keizer Finance Director
- Maiko Kamerbeek Investor Pre-Seed
- Folkert Mullemeister Compliance Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on graduate.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. 38 co-investors found.
- Rockstart 2 shared companies: authic.io, eddygrid.com
- 7wireVentures 1 shared company: notion.site
- ANOBAKA 1 shared company: notion.site
- Auxxo Beteiligungen GmbH 1 shared company: notion.site
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: notion.site
- Blackbird Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- Bonfire Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- byFounders 1 shared company: notion.site
- Calm/Storm Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- Compound Advisors, LLC 1 shared company: notion.site
and 28 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Graduate Entrepreneur Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.graduate.nl/is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, aum, portfolio_count, name, description, status, confidence
- https://www.graduate.nl/fundinglayer, stage_min, stage_max, aum
- https://www.graduate.nl/about-ushq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
- https://www.graduate.nl/portfoliosectors
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Record 111 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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