KEEN - What a Year It’s Been! As 2024 winds down, we're taking a minute to celebrate another trip around the sun. We do so from Amsterdam, where the sun is as rare as a startup on budget #foundermode. We reflect that venture is no sprint; it's more like a marathon on a roller coaster. 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽: 💫 We saw 638 AI Agent startups and 24 ex Adyen people starting companies... just kidding… 🧐 well? But we did do 7 deals that sleighed (🛷) and we're proud to support these great founders. 🏋♂️ Our portfolio resilience shines with 5 companies winning follow-on investments. Great execution gets you past the finish line! 🍾 We popped 1 big bottle and a 0,0% biertje for 2 exits and poured one out for 1 RIP—celebrations and reflections alike. 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀: This summer we bid a heartfelt goodbye to Abdul Afridi, but our squad expanded with new all-stars Giuseppe Lacerenza and Stephanie D., who are already on the field and smashing it. 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱: Charging into 2025 with energy levels that could light up Europe without Russian gas! We're ready to unveil ambitious announcements—stay tuned, it's going to be bold. 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆: Huge thanks to our portfolio companies, partners, and friends. You prove that our best bets are on people, and we wish everyone a festive holiday season and a smooth exit from 2024. Like Jay-Z said: “May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows”. #HappyHolidays #VentureCapital #KeenVenturePartners #2024Wrapped
Keen Venture Partners
Durfkapitaal en privévermogen
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The radically human venture capital firm
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Keen Venture Partners is a radically human venture capital firm that backs exceptional founders across Europe from Seed to Series B.
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http://www.keenventurepartners.com
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- Durfkapitaal en privévermogen
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- 2-10 medewerkers
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- Amsterdam, North Holland
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- 2014
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Passeerdersgracht 19a
Amsterdam, North Holland 1016XG, NL
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81 Fulham Road
London, England SW3 6, GB
Medewerkers van Keen Venture Partners
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Robert Verwaayen
General Partner at Keen Venture Partners
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Giuseppe Lacerenza
AI and Defence Tech Investor | Ex McKinsey | INSEAD MBA
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Marleen Nicolai-Vrieze
Marleen (LL.M) | ⚖️ Jurist voor ondernemers 🚀 no nonsense & toegankelijk 💡'go-to-jurist' voor ondernemers 🔥helpt jou je (legal) shit op orde te…
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Sara McMunn
Operating Partner at Keen Venture Partners
Updates
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We've detected a winner... Keep Perciv AI on your radar 📡 We're thrilled to be on board with Balazs, Andras, Srimannarayana and the rest of Perciv's team 🚁 Check out Giuseppe's post for more resolution ( Ba Dum Tss 🥁 ) in the link below! CC: Day One Capital, Vinci Venture Capital, Peter Kromer, Aylin Girgin Özbiliş
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A delicious and important sandbox! Well done GOURMEY
🇬🇧 Exciting news from the UK with a brand new regulatory sandbox for cultivated foods. The UK government announced today that it’s creating Europe’s first regulatory sandbox for cultivated proteins and foods to improve the Food Standards Agency’s knowledge in this area. This initiative comes with £1.6 million in public funding. GOURMEY is proud to be one of the few pioneering cultivated protein companies to have requested market authorisation in the UK. We’re excited to keep working with the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland to bring our products to the UK culinary scene and to our partners in the near future. Alongside the funding, the FSA announced that it is moving forward with establishing a framework for international collaboration. This initiative would allow the UK to approve cultivated meat products that have already been authorized in other countries. We are delighted to see the UK pioneering this sandbox for cultivated foods and recognizing the potential of this innovation. It’s an exciting development for our industry, as it will help both innovators and the FSA work together toward advancing the market entry of these products while maintaining the highest safety standards. Thank you to The Times for featuring us in your coverage of this exciting update. Read more in The Times: https://lnkd.in/eRCz6u8x Read more in The Financial Times: https://lnkd.in/e3GRYYsz Also, we have exciting openings: join.gourmey.com
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Djoni de Vos just got promoted to Principal 🎉 — proof that you can be a stand-up comedy champ, Krav Maga killer, and investment wizard ... all in one! We are thrilled to have her on our team.
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🚨 Do you like excel but also have a personality? We're hiring! 🚨 Keen is on the hunt for two smart, hungry, nice people to join as associates in our Amsterdam office. Please put Briehan and Djoni out of their misery and skip the cover letter in favour of succinct, punny emails. Check out the vacancy on our website for all the details 🎁 #VC #Amsterdam #Associate
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Regulatory submission ✅ now let’s goose!! 🪿💪🏼
Pivotal milestone for GOURMEY and the cultivated foods ecosystem. We’re thrilled to announce that over the past few months, GOURMEY has requested market approval in five regions, filing applications with the US FDA, Singapore Food Agency, UK Food Standards Agency, Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO, and the European Commission. This achievement makes us the very first cultivated food company to file for approval in the EU. Complying with the rigorous standards of these world’s most advanced agencies on cultivated foods regulation, including the EU’s stringent novel food framework, is a testament to GOURMEY’s technology leadership, our commitment to safety, and the immense dedication of our team. We want to celebrate a massive team effort from all Gourmates, involving relentless work over the past few years to build a safe, resource-efficient, and commercially viable solution. We’ll first empower our culinary partners with our flagship cultivated duck product, offering a new choice for foie gras enthusiasts, chefs, and restaurants worldwide, followed by further sustainable and delicious foods as we continue to scale up. As Europe aims to boost food security and achieve sustainability goals, we are convinced that cultivated foods have strong potential to complement existing agrifood value chains, enhancing the long-term resilience of our food system. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with regulatory authorities to introduce our products to the market. Special mention to the leadership of our Regulatory & Food Safety team: Hannah Lester, Brian Chun, Nadine Bongaerts-Duportet, Ph.D., and Victor SAYOUS. We are deeply thankful for all our partners, advisors, investors, and supporters. Thank you for being part of our journey—much more to come! Read more in POLITICO: https://lnkd.in/ejJUH_DW 👉 See our current openings: join.gourmey.com
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📣 Big congratulations to allO on raising their $5m seed round led by 20VC, with participation from a fantastic group of angel investors. Happy to continue backing the superstar trio of Cancan, Teodor, Benedikt and the rest of the team as they help local restaurants thrive 🧡
In the next couple of months, we are going to make the life of thousands of local restaurants in Germany better! And that starts with a small milestone today: We are thrilled to announce our over-subscribed $5m Seed Round led by 20VC, with the participation from Keen Venture Partners, NL Startup Fund, 20Growth and 20Product. We are also extremely proud of the Business Angels that have shown strong conviction in allO: Daniel Khachab (Founder of Choco) Claire Hughes Johnson (COO of Stripe) Mario Götze (Professional Athlete & Business Angel) Dr. Martin Enderle (Chairman of Delivery Hero) Navid Hadzaad (Founder of Zapp) Patrick Cummins(Captain of Australian Cricket Team) Igor Tikhturov & Oleg Tikhturov (Founder of TrueSight Ventures) Ernst Ludes, PhD - CVCapital Michael Herbst ...and more 💪 We are grateful to all of our restaurants and partners, who made everything possible for us. And we are excited to bring our frontier restaurant system into every local restaurant. #restauranttech #gastrotech #startup #germanstartup #fundraising #vc
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Congratulations to Crisp on achieving B-Corp certification! 🌍✨ At Keen, we always knew you were on a "roll," but this is the icing on the croissant! 🥐🎉 We're proud to support Crisp in their mission to deliver fresh, local, and seasonal food directly to customers' doorsteps. This milestone is a testament to their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. Here's to a more tasteful and sustainable tomorrow! 🌿💚 #BCorp #Sustainability #FarmToTable #CrispSupermarket #KeenVenturePartners #BetterFoodChoices
Crisp verkoopt aardappelen en asperges van regeneratieve boeren: ‘Moeten er steeds meer worden’ | Change Inc.
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Excited to announce Feather's €6m raise to make the buying of insurance simpler, honest and more transparent. Happy to be backing the stellar duo of Rob Schumacher and Vincent Audoire as well as the rest of the fantastic team as they execute on their vision of building a sustainable pan-European insurer for expats 🇪🇺 cc: Plural and Entrepreneur First
So, so happy to be able to announce Feather's Series A raise. There are many reasons to not invest in consumer insurtech and most investors we spoke to told us so. Sadly, there were many more reasons to invest in Rob, Vincent and the rest of the team ❤️ Their understanding of insurance at an atomic level, building Feather sustainably, and serving customers with a beautifully honest and transparent product are just a few reasons. Happy to be backing their mission at Keen Venture Partners along with Plural and Entrepreneur First. 🗞 https://lnkd.in/evnXma-e CC: Alexander Ribbink & Taavet Hinrikus
Feather raises €6M to go Pan-European with its insurance platform for expats | TechCrunch
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mika AI raised €800k in preseed financing to eliminate bureaucratic overhead for small businesses in Germany by automating accounting and tax filings. The happy news: we've led the round, it's our third investment through Samen Slimmer - the AI ventures alliance Thrilled to be partnering with Agnieszka M. Walorska 🇺🇦 and looking forward to seeing her free German entrepreneurs from their Sisyphus-like curse 🌋 Below Djoni de Vos with our write-up and of course an AI-generated image
Bureaucracy vs AI — our investment in mika
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