Rockstart
rockstart.com Direct investor
Accelerator and investor backing founders building regenerative and sustainable solutions in energy, agrifood, and emerging tech globally.
Rockstart is an accelerator headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2011. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series B, in energy, AgriFood and emerging Technology. €104m under management and 368 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in ambitious founders with groundbreaking visions for a regenerative and sustainable future.”
— Rockstart, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- Energy, AgriFood, Emerging Technology
- Founded
- 2011
- Assets under management
- €104m
- Portfolio
- 368 companies
Team, as Rockstart publishes it
- Rune Theill CEO & Co-founder
- Martin Dahl Carstensen Finance Director
- Max ter Horst Managing Partner, Energy
- Jakob Gaard Director, Partnerships Nordics
- Josephine Dufour Investment Associate
- Emma den Hond Growth Track Manager
- Roy de Weerd Head of Platform
- Anastasiia Smirnova Financial Controller
- Gem Kua Investment Principal
- Natali Mutli Analyst
- Sofija Bogeva Growth Track Manager
- Raphael Sars Investment Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on rockstart.com. 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. 67 co-investors found.
- SICTIC 3 shared companies: moost.io, orderlion.com, sympheny.com
- Graduate Entrepreneur Fund 2 shared companies: authic.io, eddygrid.com
- Shamrock Ventures 2 shared companies: circular-iq.com, peerby.com
- Delphinus Venture Capital 2 shared companies: decameal.com, oktogrid.io
- Arrebol Capital 2 shared companies: ecomm-app.com, superbeauty.com.co
- Volve Capital 2 shared companies: eddygrid.com, twindo.ai
- SFC Capital 2 shared companies: verv.energy, mozaic.earth
- The Footprint Firm 2 shared companies: greenshift.app, klimate.co
- HV Capital 2 shared companies: holy-technologies.com, pact.care
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 2 shared companies: imefficiency.com, talkjs.com
and 57 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Rockstart publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://rockstart.com/name, website, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, portfolio_count, thesis_quote, stage_min, stage_max, invests_in_geographies, is_investor, layer, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://rockstart.com/about/founded, aum
- https://rockstart.com/team/people
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Record 93 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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