Fund profile / Netherlands

DFF Ventures Fund III

Geography: Netherlands
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: €50M
Focus: AI/ML, E-Commerce, Marketplaces and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About DFF Ventures Fund III

Vertical AI, Marketplaces, SaaS, Recommerce, Tech-Enabled Services

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionNetherlands

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

E-Commerce

Marketplaces

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Pre-seed founder in vertical AI or unglamorous B2B procurement

vertical AI

recommerce

marketplaces

underdigitised industries

supply-chain agents

procurement automation

back-office grind

non-digital sectors

Bullish Signals

Oversubscribed €70M, above €60M hard capblog

Operator-LP flywheel drives proprietary deal flowblog

€2.5M max ticket, meaningful ownership at pre-seedblog

Fund III closed in brutal LP environmentblog

Ranked #2 seed VC Europe (Sifted/Dealroom)twitter

Portfolio exits: Opensignal, WIREWAX, Marshmallowtwitter

Backs construction, femtech, real-time datatwitter

Active demo day partnerships, 350+ VC reachlinkedin

Compri seed: €3.2M, doubling down with Picuslinkedin

Portfolio: supply-chain agents managing €10bn+ spendlinkedin

First Italian investment signals geographic expansionlinkedin

Recent activity: actively backing unglamorous B2Blinkedin

Double-down on Compri across 8 countriessocial

Fund backs procurement DNA & founding team qualitysocial

Procurement moves billions via email, spreadsheetssocial

Compri agents embedded in live workflows, scaledsocial

DFF doubled-down investment confirms conviction thesissocial

Onstage demo day (Sifted) actively sourcing founderslinkedin

Non-digital industry digitization remains priority focuslinkedin

Onstage Sept 22: actively hunting non-digital builderslinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Exit paths narrower than horizontal softwareblog

AI capability curve may erode data moatsblog

Less glamorous sectors, fewer strategic acquirersblog

Founder Do's

Build software touching messy analog workflows

Operate in logistics, trade, physical ops

Come at ideation or pre-seed stage

Expect seed-style process, not party round

Leverage operator-LP network introductions

Focus on unglamorous B2B back-office grinds

Target billion-dollar spreadsheet-driven spend flows

Show founding DNA over credentials alone

Apply to Onstage demo day (Sifted)

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch LLM wrappers or AI agents

Don't expect a logo-only investor

Don't pitch post-seed stage

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size€50M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Martijn Jansen, Jonas de Groot, Jorin Dorr, Fabian Dudek, Jonne de Leeuw, Thijs Olthof

Patrick KerssemakersFounding Partner

Laurens GroenendijkPartner

Bas BeerensPartner

Hidde HoogcarspelPartner

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