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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 4 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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