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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Information Technology startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rockstart | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
BOM | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
Newion | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
henQ | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe | ||
Goodwell Investments | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Information Technology Early Stage Venture investors in The Netherlands. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Information Technology Investors & Funds (The Netherlands)
Rockstart
Rockstart is an early stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood and Emerging Technologies. Rockstart invests in early-stage startups and provides access to capital, market, and expertise by connecting founders with co-investors, mentors, partners, and the wider Rockstart network. Rockstart has invested in more than 260 startups and its alumni value to date is more than $1bn. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to empowering purpose-driven founders to become scalable and drive positive change on a global scale. Rockstart has notable exits such as Wercker, Bouw7, iClinic, and in 2021, 3D Hubs and Brincr. The company has offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Copenhagen, Denmark and Bogota, Colombia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Clean Energy, Food Processing, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
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Newion
Newion is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in building software companies into category leaders that create sustainable impact, and in doing so generate excellent returns to its investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Internet
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henQ
We back the best founders. We like boring or ‘too small’ markets, atypical business models, or any early-stage business that is simply a little different in one way or another.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, B2B, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet
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Goodwell Investments
Goodwell Investments provides early-stage growth capital and hands-on support to providers of basic goods and services for the majority world in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The firm invests in enterprises that are financially sustainable, scalable, and that deliver investors significant financial returns accompanies by serious social impact. Founded in 2006, Goodwell Investments is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology
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KPN Ventures
KPN Ventures is a corporate venture arm of KPN that aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels. It focuses on early growth-stage European companies in networking technology, internet of things, smart home, digital healthcare, cyber security, mobile and video (OTT) services, cloud computing, data, and analytics. It began operation on June 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Security
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Value Creation Capital
Value Creation Capital is a private equity firm specializing in growth companies, management buy out, and management buy in. It does not invests in seed/ startups. Value Creation Capital invests only in the information technology sector and high-tech companies. It focuses on software (SaaS), managed services, webservices, nanotech, cyber security software, managed security services, safety management, data analytics, data visualization, dash boarding- reporting and Internet of Things within information technology. Value Creation Capital typically invests in Benelux region. It typically invests between $200k to $2 million. Value Creation Capital provides other services including development and operations, finance and planning, management and governance and can make co-investments. Aldebert Wiersinga, Jos Bourgonje, and Wilfried van Haeren founded it in May 2005, with its headquarters in Bilthoven in the Netherlands.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Tablomonto Ventures
Tablomonto is an early-stage venture capital firm based in The Netherlands. We believe in building businesses together with the founders and are looking for remarkable and diverse founding teams. This is why next to investment in cash, we also bring key capabilities through our venture partners and allied experts to the founding team: such as technology, HR and (digital) branding & marketing capabilities. Our focus is on investing in propositions that (partly) solve societies’ issues. Some of these themes are equal opportunities, people transition & future of work, education, health, and sustainable living. We invest between €200k and €2m initially, in companies that are both revenue and pre-revenue. Lastly, we believe in diversity & inclusion and are continuously working on attracting a diverse pipeline. If you are a female founder or diverse management team, we definitely want to hear from you.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Laren, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Consumer Goods, Consumer Software, Education, Health Care, Information Technology, InsurTech, Internet, Social Media, Venture Capital
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WISE BCI Investments
WISE BCI Investments is a early stage investor in the Amsterdam City Center. With our partners/ventures, we are building together.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology, Marketplace, SaaS, Software
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Twente Technology Fund
The Twente Technology Fund is an independent venture capital fund aiming to capitalize on new technological developments. It provides investment capital to fund high tech entrepreneurial activity in Twente region in general and at the University of Twente in particular. The Fund is a specialist fund, targeting companies that are developing commercially promising products and technologies in attractive sectors like Clean Technology, Nanotechnology, ICT and Biomedical Technology. The Fund focuses on seed and early stage companies, but also on pre-seed commercially viable academic projects.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Spectra Vision
The goal of the Spectra Vision Startup Accelerator Program is to embrace innovation in a structural way within our business strategy. We aim to help companies by creating and supporting venture teams that are developing new business concepts outside of our core business, within a short period of time. We are an investor with a long term strategy and interest.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Information Technology
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Space Business Innovation Centre Noordwijk
Space Business Innovation Centre ( SBIC ) Noordwijk offers an impressive base to work from, allowing you to grow your business within a lively environment where you will have access to skills, knowledge, equipment, experience of similar individuals and companies and access to international events. Located on the Space Business Park, close to ESA/ESTEC, the biggest research facility of the European Space Agency, and within half an hour from Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam and The Hague it is the perfect location for businesses. SBIC Noordwijk offers techno starters, via the incubation program of the European Space Agency ( ESA BIC Noordwijk ), a boost to innovate their business concepts for using space technology, applications and services in non-space environments. Via its participation funds, SBIC Noordwijk offers companies the opportunity to accelerate their businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Non Equity Assistance
Location: Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Aerospace, Agriculture, Drones, Health Care, Information Technology, Logistics, Mining, Navigation, Oil and Gas, Satellite Communication, Sports
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PVS Investments
We invest in climate tech start-ups. Not just money, but also practical advice and assistance, for example to get a solid business plan in preparation of the next funding round.
We have done this for startups with innovative clean energy production solutions (Oceans of Energy, Renaissance Fusion), battery technologies (LeydenJar, Eexion, Delft IMP), e-mobility (Tiler), green chemicals (H2Pro) and precision fermentation (Brevel).
Each of these has the potential to disrupt their industry when scaled up.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Climate tech, Clean energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management, Energy Storage
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Valley Date Venture Partners
Valley Date Venture Partners (“VDVP”) is a full-scale business consulting and investment brokerage firm aimed at raising funds for venture capital funds, incubators and accelerators with over 40 years of combined experience in fundraising, business consulting and technology development and management.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Information Technology
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