After twelve months of fundraising, Amsterdam-based Volve Capital has introduced in the present day the ultimate shut of its first fund at €9 million, devoted to investing in early-stage startups throughout the Benelux and DACH areas.
Fund I is supported by roughly 30 Dutch entrepreneurs as restricted companions, together with Henk Jan Beltman (Tony’s Chocolonely), Roelof Bijlsma (former founding father of Conclusion), Heleen Dura van Oord (Peak Capital), and Mathieu Zwinkels (former Waterland), who additionally serve on Volve Capital’s advisory board. Extra monetary backing was offered via the RVO Seed Capital programme.
“Founders want the proper accomplice from the very starting. Going from zero to at least one is the toughest step – I’ve lived it. We wish to be that accomplice; providing capital and, extra importantly, assist,” says co-founder Joost Bijlsma.
Early-stage exercise throughout the Benelux and DACH areas in 2025 reveals a gradual stream of latest funds and pre-Seed/Seed rounds.
In Germany, Donnerstag.ai raised €4.3 million to scale its accounts-receivable automation platform, whereas Steuerboard secured €725k to additional develop its workflow SaaS for tax advisers.
On the fund aspect, Germany additionally noticed the launch of Smart Infrastructure Ventures’ SIVentures II, a €30 million car concentrating on pre-Seed and Seed B2B software program startups, and May Ventures, which entered the market with over €30 million to put money into AI-focused early-stage corporations.
Inside this panorama, Volve Capital’s €9 million first fund provides extra capability on the earliest stage, significantly for pre-product and pre-revenue groups throughout Benelux and DACH.
Its founder-led method enhances the bigger institutional funds rising in the identical interval, strengthening the decrease finish of the early-stage funding spectrum and offering another for founders searching for dedicated companions at “day zero.”
“There’s loads of funding obtainable within the ecosystem as soon as founders begin to present traction, however at day zero it’s nonetheless usually arduous to seek out – particularly when in search of traders keen to take the lead in these early rounds. That’s precisely the place we step in. And sure – we truly do lead pre-product and pre-revenue offers,” Maurits Hovius provides.
Based in 2022 by Dutch entrepreneurs Joost Bijlsma and Maurits Hovius, Volve Capital was constructed on a easy perception: early-stage founders want traders who truly perceive what “day zero” appears like. Having skilled the method of constructing corporations from scratch, each as founders and as traders, Bijlsma and Hovius created Volve Capital to be the accomplice they as soon as wanted.
Volve Capital goals to assist founders stage up in tech, information, GTM, advertising, ops, and finance – giving them the momentum they want, proper from the beginning.
The fund focuses on pre-Seed stage corporations, with preliminary investments starting from €150k to €500k and follow-on capability of as much as €1 million per firm. The VC plans to make roughly 12 to fifteen investments in whole, seven of which have already been accomplished within the startups Eddygrid, NOX Vitality, Stippl, Conservio, Whisper, Twindo and Equipped.
After finishing all 12 to fifteen investments, Volve Capital goals to proceed its mission with the launch of a second fund.
