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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 38 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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