Slingshot Ventures

Slingshot Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that focuses on investing in fast-growing companies, particularly in the B2C and B2B2C sectors. The firm specializes in early to late venture and growth capital, targeting technology, e-commerce, internet retail, and business services. Slingshot Ventures prefers to invest in companies with revenues exceeding €0.05 million, with initial investments ranging from €0.5 million to €10 million. The firm is known for backing ambitious entrepreneurs and aims to accelerate their business growth through its expertise and extensive international network. Slingshot Ventures manages a diverse portfolio of investments, primarily within the Netherlands, and includes notable companies like VanMoof, Wonderkind, and Boldking, all of which have cross-border ambitions.

Tom Kist

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Marlot Meddens

Investor

Marco Pieters

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Ernst Rustenhoven

Investor

Constance Scholten

Venture Partner

30 past transactions

Wild Cosmetics

Seed Round in 2022
We create awesome personal care products that are kind to your body and kind to our planet.

Naduvi

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a curated online marketplace intended to sell overstock interior designing products from various top brands. The company's marketplace charges a fee from brands to sell their products and these products include furniture, bathroom fittings, and designer lights with high discounts every day and receive updates on the collections, enabling customers to realize their conceptualized interior decoration using furniture and decorative accessories.

Bold Online BV

Private Placement in 2019
Bold Online BV manufactures and sells shaving products for men. It offers refill blades, handles, aftershave cream, toiletry bags for travelling, and recycling envelops. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wasteless

Private Placement in 2018
Wasteless Ltd. develops supply chain technology using radio frequency identification (RFID) and a pricing algorithm to reduce food waste. It enables retailers to identify and react to out-of-stock situations before they occur and automates pricing processes to ensure fast shelf turnover. It automates pricing processes to ensure shelf turnover. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with operations in New York and Europe.

Swishfund

Series A in 2018
Swishfund is revolutionising Business Loans. Set up by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. They understand that to grow your business, you need to move quickly, taking advantage of opportunities as soon as they appear. They guarantee a simple and quick credit decision, giving you the power to grow and the confidence to move fast. They provide short 3 to 6-month loans to companies that need to borrow money quickly, giving you easy access to flexible financing. Best of all, repayment is fully automated making it quick and easy, enabling you to focus on growing your business, not the finance.

VanMoof

Series A in 2017
VanMoof is a developer and designer of urban e-bikes to help commuters get to work without breaking a sweat. It helps modern city-dwellers get from one place to another faster, smarter, and in style with different digital devices like antitheft systems and intelligent motor and automatic electronic gear shifting that enable commuters and office goers to travel with a sustainable mode of transportation. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wild Cosmetics Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Wild Cosmetics Limited was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Wasteless

Seed Round in 2018
Wasteless Ltd. develops supply chain technology using radio frequency identification (RFID) and a pricing algorithm to reduce food waste. It enables retailers to identify and react to out-of-stock situations before they occur and automates pricing processes to ensure fast shelf turnover. It automates pricing processes to ensure shelf turnover. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with operations in New York and Europe.

ShapeShift Gaming

Private Placement in 2019
ShapeShift Gaming Ltd. develops Jumper.tv, a streaming content aggregator and viewership platform. Its platform captures, tracks, and analyzes live video game streams from various streaming platforms. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Swishfund

Venture Round in 2020
Swishfund is revolutionising Business Loans. Set up by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. They understand that to grow your business, you need to move quickly, taking advantage of opportunities as soon as they appear. They guarantee a simple and quick credit decision, giving you the power to grow and the confidence to move fast. They provide short 3 to 6-month loans to companies that need to borrow money quickly, giving you easy access to flexible financing. Best of all, repayment is fully automated making it quick and easy, enabling you to focus on growing your business, not the finance.

Boldking

Series A in 2019
Boldking is the leading European online razor brand. Their purpose is to remove frustrations and add to the pleasures of shaving. With smarter engineered razors, conveniently home delivered at fair prices they have a unique proposition. Today they serve many hundreds of thousands of happy customers throughout 8 countries in Europe

CHRONEXT

Series E in 2020
CHRONEXT is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading. At CHRONEXT, you can buy watches, sell watches, and service watches in their in-house certified watchmaking atelier. In addition to brand new models, they offer pre-owned and vintage timepieces, all of which have undergone inspection for quality and authenticity in their watchmaking atelier.

Yepoda

Series A in 2023
Yepoda products are free from silicones, parabens, formaldehyde, artificial colorants, PEGs, mineral oils, microplastics, and sulfates. It is an online seller of skincare products. For inquiries, an online inquiry form and an email address are available on their website.

Boldking

Venture Round in 2016
Boldking is the leading European online razor brand. Their purpose is to remove frustrations and add to the pleasures of shaving. With smarter engineered razors, conveniently home delivered at fair prices they have a unique proposition. Today they serve many hundreds of thousands of happy customers throughout 8 countries in Europe

Cardihab

Private Placement in 2018
Cardihab provides clinicians with the ability to remotely deliver a scientifically validated, comprehensive Phase 2 CR program based on ACRA guidelines. In a world first randomised controlled trial, CSIRO & Queensland Health researchers demonstrated that remote delivery of CR improves patient uptake (+29%), adherence (+38%) and completion (+70%) while significantly reducing the number of centre visits (-86%) and delivering equivalent clinical outcomes when compared to traditional, centre-based Phase 2 rehab program.

Casper

Series A in 2022
Casper is a pan European Hybrid Kitchen pioneer and a modern day food hall; 100% virtual and getting everyone what they want. Their vision is to have a foothold in every great city of Europe: a virtual food hall (referring to the wide variety of cuisines available from which you can order) at everyone’s fingertips, from the comfort of their own home. Available for in-store purchase, pick-up or within 30 minutes delivery distance. Similar to a dark kitchen, Casper's kitchen operations are takeaway & delivery focused. However, they differ by choosing high street locations where customers are able to walk in and order from a kiosk, click & collect or pick-up from the deli. While they wait for and see how their food is prepared, the branded in-store environment allows them to engage with the brand; completely wiping out the mystery-factor and all misconceptions around ghost kitchens.

Naduvi

Series A in 2021
Developer of a curated online marketplace intended to sell overstock interior designing products from various top brands. The company's marketplace charges a fee from brands to sell their products and these products include furniture, bathroom fittings, and designer lights with high discounts every day and receive updates on the collections, enabling customers to realize their conceptualized interior decoration using furniture and decorative accessories.

Wonderkind

Seed Round in 2017
Wonderkind Global B.V. operates a programmatic job advertising platform that helps corporates and staffing agencies to create and execute recruitment marketing campaign. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wasteless

Seed Round in 2019
Wasteless Ltd. develops supply chain technology using radio frequency identification (RFID) and a pricing algorithm to reduce food waste. It enables retailers to identify and react to out-of-stock situations before they occur and automates pricing processes to ensure fast shelf turnover. It automates pricing processes to ensure shelf turnover. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with operations in New York and Europe.

CHRONEXT

Private Placement in 2020
CHRONEXT is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading. At CHRONEXT, you can buy watches, sell watches, and service watches in their in-house certified watchmaking atelier. In addition to brand new models, they offer pre-owned and vintage timepieces, all of which have undergone inspection for quality and authenticity in their watchmaking atelier.

ShapeShift Gaming

Seed Round in 2019
ShapeShift Gaming Ltd. develops Jumper.tv, a streaming content aggregator and viewership platform. Its platform captures, tracks, and analyzes live video game streams from various streaming platforms. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Temper

Seed Round in 2018
Temper B.V. operates as an online marketplace connecting freelance professionals to companies within the hospitality sector. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Spacegoods

Seed Round in 2024
Operator of a wellness brand intended to offer mushroom and adaptogenic powder blends that help to unlock the consumer's natural self. The company's brand offers a range of health supplements made from lion mane mushrooms, ashwagandha, maca root, cordyceps mushrooms, and adaptogenic powder, enabling consumers to purchase various flavors of supplements at affordable prices.

HEY HOLY

Seed Round in 2023
We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core

Valyuu.com

Seed Round in 2023
Circular Economy Marketplace

UNIT 1

Series A in 2023
UNIT 1 is an innovation company for action sports.They are riders, designers, engineers and business builders driven to create game-changing innovation through experience-based products. Soundshield, their first product, is an action sports helmet with detachable wireless headphones. It redefines music within action sports.