DFF Ventures

DFF is an early-stage VC that primarily invests in marketplaces and other network-effects-driven propositions all over EU. Our fund is founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. We look beyond spreadsheets and resolve early-stage growth pains with lightning speed. Ready to scale together? From Amsterdam, to the world.

Hidde Hoogcarspel

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Patrick Kerssemakers

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

27 past transactions

kennek

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kennek offers a deep vertical SaaS that solves lenders’ operational challenges, as well as captures, creates, structures and stores data in a single point of truth accessible across the private debt eco-system. The kennek SaaS is unique in that it covers the full value chain of lending including origination, underwriting, servicing, monitoring, investor reporting and funding.

Vamstar

Series A in 2022
Healthcare marketplace is broken from a long-time. Both buyers (hospitals, health systems) and suppliers (pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers/digital health companies/service or solution providers) struggle to find the optimum opportunities for developing a transaction. It takes time and resources to effectively commercialise new healthcare technology. We use the latest data automation technologies (NLP, ML, DL etc). to aggregate demand from millions of sources and provide real-time analytics to shape the transaction. We aggregate more than $2tn of global demand (70+ countries) in our system and make it easier for healthcare companies to start closing more deals. Our customers use a range of search and bid-development tools within our platform to quickly find the most suitable opportunity and finalise a transaction. Additionally, buyers (hospital, clinics etc.) can directly launch procurement and sourcing programs in our platform and get access to thousands of suppliers in the market for their respective products/services. We have millions of contracts in our platform across countries for suppliers to bid, we have onboarded some of the world's most innovative healthcare companies, we are continuing to raise money to build the world's first digital marketplace, we have won innovation awards, and we're backed by some of the best investors in the world. And we are JUST GETTING STARTED.

Smiler

Seed Round in 2022
Smiler believes that valuable memories deserve to be captured in high quality. It’s their mission to achieve that on a global scale for everyone, everywhere. Smiler is the world’s first on the spot photography marketplace that brings photographers and consumers together at tourist hotspots and other leisure locations.

Underline Science

Seed Round in 2022
Underline Science is a repository platform for live-streaming scientific lectures, research, discussions, and conferences. Presenting an online video platform designed specifically for scientific and academic activities. The company organizes and hosts conference content in both a live and virtual setting, allowing presenters to reach new worldwide audiences while also allowing conference participants to watch any missed information.

NorthLadder

Convertible Note in 2022
Most of us know what it feels like to sell a pre-owned device - be it a smartphone, a laptop or a tablet. The fact is that the pre-owned market is intransparent and finding a fair price for your asset is daunting. Even if you do get a fair price, the inconvenience of meeting the buyer, negotiating the price, shipping the asset, and waiting for payment could be an exhausting process. And then there is the worry of figuring out what happens to the data on your device. This is why NorthLadder came to be. We are the region’s only auction-driven selling platform for pre-owned electronics devices- a thoughtfully created service where people can sell their devices to a network of global buyers and get cash instantly in a safe, dignified, and hassle-free manner. But that’s not all. We have many convenient drop-off locations across the region for getting instant cash against your devices. Don’t want to drop off your device? No worries, we will come to your doorstep to pick it up and hand the cash over to you. And if you want your data to be erased, we can advise you on ways to do it or use internationally approved software to erase it for a small fee. We have served thousands of customers and their overwhelmingly positive feedback tells us we are on the right track. Our efforts actively contribute to the formation of a circular economy, which is the need of the day. You can help too, by introducing your electronic gadget to the secondary market - increase its lifespan and reduce its carbon footprint. This is what keeps us motivated: to help the planet as we continue our mission to serve millions of people across the globe. We are passionate, we are focussed, we are NorthLadder.

Lumaly

Convertible Note in 2022
Lumaly is a digital shopping assistant that supports users across their entire shopping journey - from product discovery & automatic savings to easy checkout for all online shops. Features like the Lumaly wallet with BTC cashback, and CO2 offset (among many others) offer additional benefits to users.

Reverse.supply

Seed Round in 2022
Reverse.supply developed a white-label recommerce-as-a-service platform, helping brands allow their customers to return used, but still good items and sell them again through their webshop - all without having to set up the processes and operations behind it.

Blanco

Series B in 2022
Blanco Services B.V. develops client onboarding and know your customer software for asset managers. It also offers services, such as compliance advice, MiFID-II scan, controlled organization, guidance to ISAE 3402 and SOC2, IT strategy, analysis custodian, client conversion, and market knowledge. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

BuildStream

Pre Seed Round in 2022
BuildStream helps busy construction projects hire, manage and pay their workforce. We focus on placing teams of workers into projects, which increases site productivity, team cohesion and quality of work.

Winc Academy

Seed Round in 2022
Winc Academy is an international education platform that offers high quality courses with personal guidance. Learners acquire future skills and boost their careers in coding, tech, and data. Winc Academy increases accessibility to quality education through asynchronous online education with scalable personal mentoring. B2C, B2B and B2G.

Reveall

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Reveall is a Customer Insights Platform that helps businesses better understand their customers by making it easier to gather, organize and share learnings from customer research and feedback.

Lumaly

Convertible Note in 2021
Lumaly is a digital shopping assistant that supports users across their entire shopping journey - from product discovery & automatic savings to easy checkout for all online shops. Features like the Lumaly wallet with BTC cashback, and CO2 offset (among many others) offer additional benefits to users.

Alleo

Seed Round in 2021
Alleo is a HR tech firm offers reward and engage employees by letting them choose their own benefits.

Lumaly

Convertible Note in 2021
Lumaly is a digital shopping assistant that supports users across their entire shopping journey - from product discovery & automatic savings to easy checkout for all online shops. Features like the Lumaly wallet with BTC cashback, and CO2 offset (among many others) offer additional benefits to users.

Lumaly

Seed Round in 2021
Lumaly is a digital shopping assistant that supports users across their entire shopping journey - from product discovery & automatic savings to easy checkout for all online shops. Features like the Lumaly wallet with BTC cashback, and CO2 offset (among many others) offer additional benefits to users.

Minimum

Seed Round in 2021
Minimum provides a real-time platform that serves as a single source of truth for carbon accounting as well as a command and control hub for all carbon management activities. Its software complements a solid Carbon Accounting core with a comprehensive suite of capabilities, allowing an organization to easily meet its Carbon Management goals.

Shypple

Series A in 2021
Shypple is a digital forwarder for moving freight globally that manages and analyzes supply chains in real-time. Shypple exists of a team of highly motivated “disruptors”, with a background in logistics, international trade, and forwarding. Joint experiences led to a mutual realization: booking, managing, and tracking freight shipments should become faster, easier, and more transparent! Their team’s expertise is strengthened through the data-driven choices that they make. The digital dashboard serves as a central source of information that benefits both Shypple's and the client's logistics team. Without losing the service or personal touch of a good forwarder they ease the logistics of international trade.

Veylinx

Seed Round in 2021
Veylinx is the most realistic behavioral insights platform to answer with confidence major business questions surrounding new products and services during all stages of the development cycle. Veylinx obtains behavioral consumer insights using a Nobel prize-winning approach in which consumers have real skin-in-the-game to reliably measure demand. This is a major shift from current market research practices that still rely on what consumers hypothetically claim they will buy. Veylinx has its root as an academic project at the University of Amsterdam, where Founder and CEO Anouar El Haji, obtained his PhD in Marketing. Since December 2015 Veylinx has been disrupting the world of market research supporting mostly Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever to guide them on major decisions on product developments and initiatives. Besides the fact that Veylinx continues to be applied by academic researchers, Veylinx won a number of industry awards among which the IIeX Insights Innovation Award for its paradigm-shifting approach.

Blanco

Series A in 2020
Blanco Services B.V. develops client onboarding and know your customer software for asset managers. It also offers services, such as compliance advice, MiFID-II scan, controlled organization, guidance to ISAE 3402 and SOC2, IT strategy, analysis custodian, client conversion, and market knowledge. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Nostics

Seed Round in 2020
Accessible, fast, and reliable diagnostics are the gateway to modern medicine. Nostics’ aim is to provide that gateway to every person on the planet, improving their lives and health.

Caya

Seed Round in 2020
Caya builds software to manage, automate and collaborate on your document workflows. It’s a smarter way for SMBs to work with documents. By automating document workflows and letting you collaborate on everything else, Caya empowers you to get on top of paperwork - freeing you to invest your time and energy where it matters most. So if your team could use a little organising magic (and who doesn’t?) - get Caya.

Voicebooking.com

Seed Round in 2019
Voicebooking.com is the world's fastest online voice over agency located in Amsterdam.

Blanco

Seed Round in 2019
Blanco Services B.V. develops client onboarding and know your customer software for asset managers. It also offers services, such as compliance advice, MiFID-II scan, controlled organization, guidance to ISAE 3402 and SOC2, IT strategy, analysis custodian, client conversion, and market knowledge. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Caya

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Caya builds software to manage, automate and collaborate on your document workflows. It’s a smarter way for SMBs to work with documents. By automating document workflows and letting you collaborate on everything else, Caya empowers you to get on top of paperwork - freeing you to invest your time and energy where it matters most. So if your team could use a little organising magic (and who doesn’t?) - get Caya.

Wonderkind

Secondary Market in 2018
Wonderkind is a game studio creating great apps for children.

Shypple

Seed Round in 2018
Shypple is a digital forwarder for moving freight globally that manages and analyzes supply chains in real-time. Shypple exists of a team of highly motivated “disruptors”, with a background in logistics, international trade, and forwarding. Joint experiences led to a mutual realization: booking, managing, and tracking freight shipments should become faster, easier, and more transparent! Their team’s expertise is strengthened through the data-driven choices that they make. The digital dashboard serves as a central source of information that benefits both Shypple's and the client's logistics team. Without losing the service or personal touch of a good forwarder they ease the logistics of international trade.

ProctorExam

Secondary Market in 2018
The developments within the online education realm have brought about new questions on exam taking. Why must those of us who enjoy online education still be restricted to having to leave the house to take a test at a testing centre? In the past, technology did not permit us to create the conditions similar to a classroom with supervisors. However, today they can offer a similar classroom environment with great new technological benefits, which can create a better anti-fraud surrounding incorporated with the convenience and low cost of the Internet.
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