DFF Ventures

Remco van Zanten leverages senior operating experience at Booking.com, Zalando, Vinted and Swappie, serving as a strategy and scale partner for marketplace founders navigating hyper-growth, not a traditional deal-focused investor.

Hidde Hoogcarspel, founder of SpaceBuzz and SchoolKassa, invests pre-seed/seed in vertical SaaS and B2B marketplaces digitizing legacy industries, offering 30+ board resolutions across co-investors and data-driven creative legal-friction reduction.

Laurens Groenendijk, a serial founder behind Just-Eat Netherlands, Treatwell and Hiber, focuses on B2B marketplaces digitizing timber, metals and healthcare, backing concept-stage founders with a tool-first, trade-now approach.

Patrick Kerssemakers focuses on first‑cheque investments in under‑digitized physical industries (logistics, recycling), backing vertical AI and B2B2C marketplace startups and using his fonQ €65M scale‑and‑exit experience to guide founders.

Thomas Beguin is co-CEO and co-owner of IXXI. He previously co-founded Resnap, a European tech startup that ranked among the continent's 20 fastest-growing companies before its acquisition by the Albelli Group in 2017.

An investor at DFF with experience across consulting (Oliver Wyman), startup operations (Gorillas) and investing (Antler), working closely with founders.

Italian investment manager at DFF who joined in 2022, previously an early employee at Secfi and a Venture Partner at Profounders. He is sector-agnostic with a soft spot for sports-related businesses.

Part of the DFF investment team, supporting deal sourcing and assessment as well as portfolio management, ensuring companies keep their finance, ops and reporting in order.

Maarten Engelen, co‑founder of Treatwell and Hiber, blends consumer and deep‑tech operating experience to back insider founders digitizing analog B2B via technical, distribution‑focused infrastructure plays that become critical industry rails.

Sjoerd Nikkelen is a Cape Town–based venture partner specializing in recommerce and circular electronics, co‑founder/co‑CEO of MoPhones, leading investments into MENA and Africa with OLX and dubizzle marketplace scaling experience.

Tom Koenderman is a hands-on, technically experienced founder who helps portfolio companies navigate complex business models and advanced hardware challenges, especially in high‑barrier, unconventional sectors and non‑obvious international opportunities.

Former entrepreneur who supports fundraising and investor engagement at DFF, bringing a broad network across the automotive world, tech startups and social enterprises.

Bas Rieter targets B2B marketplaces and recommerce in underdigitized markets (scrap metal, refurbished electronics), layering grading, inspection and finance, and gives direct founder feedback from operator and early‑VC roles.

Arnoud Aalbersberg is an impact investor who has completed over 25 investments in startups addressing global challenges in health, sustainability, and entertainment sectors. Since 1999, he has worked toward malaria eradication through Travel Health Group, co-founding the Dutch Malaria Foundation and directing company revenue toward mosquito net distribution and malaria research. He is also a co-founder of Amsterdam Roasters and Coffee Shots, and co-founded Deepgrooves, a platform connecting vinyl music artists and labels with record manufacturers.