Volve Capital
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Volve Capital is an early-stage venture fund founded in 2024 by Joost Bijlsma and Maurits Hovius. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies in the Benelux, DACH, and Nordics regions, providing capital and operational support.
Volve Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2024. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in generalist technology. Its stated cheque size is Initial ticket size €200 – 500K; Follow-on investments possible up to €1M. €9 million fund under management and 7 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Investing in visionary teams revolutionizing their industries with capital and operational backing.”
— Volve Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Invests in
- BeNeLux, DACH, Nordics
- Sectors
- generalist technology
- Cheque size
- Initial ticket size €200 – 500K; Follow-on investments possible up to €1M
- Founded
- 2024
- Assets under management
- €9 million fund
- Portfolio
- 7 companies
Team, as Volve Capital publishes it
- Maurits Hovius General Partner
- Joost Bijlsma General Partner
- Mathieu Zwinkels Advisory board
- Henk Jan Beltman Advisory board
- Roelof Bijlsma Advisory board
- Heleen Dura van Oord Advisory board
- Thierry Fakkert Operating Partner
- Rick Joosten Operating Partner
- Menno van der Zee Technical Advisor
- Bastiaan van de Rakt Operating Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on volve.capital. 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. 4 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Rockstart 2 shared companies: eddygrid.com, twindo.ai
- Graduate Entrepreneur Fund 1 shared company: eddygrid.com
- Abstract 1 shared company: whisper.aero
- Menlo Ventures 1 shared company: whisper.aero
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Volve Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://volve.capital/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, status, confidence
- https://volve.capital/volve-capital-closes-its-first-e9-million-fund-to-back-tech-foundersat-the-earliest-stages/description, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://volve.capital/team/people
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Record 5992 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-27 · confidence high
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