VC firm
DFF (Dutch Founders Fund)
Also known as Dutch Founders Fund
- Investor type
- VC
- Investing status
- Activeas of 2026-09-18Source (opens in a new tab)
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Founded
- 2018
- Funds
- 1
- Check size
- We typically lead, but can also co-lead, rounds with tickets starting as early as €250k up to €3m.Source (opens in a new tab)
- Legal name
- Dutch Founders Fund B.V.
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About
We are an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital solutions for non-digital industries.
Investment approach
- Thesis
- We are sector agnostic, but founder specific. We look for founders with deep industry experience and some early form of commercial validation. We invest across verticals and have backed 30+ companies all over EMEA building solutions for recycling, timber, automotive and shipping industry - among many others. Our thesis spans across many industries, with our sweetspot sitting around recommerce models: businesses that increase the lifetime value of goods through recycling, reuse, repurpose or refurbishment. We also like companies that leverage network effects as an organic growth and defensibility lever, preferably in heavily underdigitized industries. We tend to strongly favour B2B-facing business models over consumer propositions.Source (opens in a new tab)
- Leads rounds
- Yes
- Lead policy
- Yes, but we can also co-lead.
- Takes board seats
- Sometimes
- Board policy
- We take board seats in a stage where it makes sense and are always on speed dial for the founders we partner with.
- Ownership target
- We partner with a select group of entrepreneurs each year, which means that we always look for meaningful ownership stakes.
- Eligibility
- We invest across Europe, the UK, and the MENA region, and we also work with founders headquartered elsewhere whose operations are in the EU or MENA.
- Traction requirement
- We look for founders with deep industry experience and some early form of commercial validation.
- Investing status notes
- DFF invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies.
Funds
- DFF Ventures III
- $50MMain fund, Announced close
Locations
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
- Office
- Milano, Italy
- Office
- Milano, MI, Italy
- Office
- Cape Town, Somalia
- Office
- Cape Town, South Africa
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