Bas Beerens co-founded WeTransfer and multiple other creative ventures before becoming a venture investor at DFF Ventures, where he's known as "the marketplace man" for his specialized expertise in evaluating marketplace businesses. He won the LOEY Award 2016 for best online entrepreneur in the Netherlands and deliberately stepped back from CEO to Executive Chairman at WeTransfer to bring in external leadership at the right growth stage, experience he now applies when advising founders he backs.
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DFF Ventures
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Marketplaces, SaaS, AI, Fintech, Logistics
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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€250K - €3M
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DFF Ventures is a €50-60m fund founded and run by serial entrepreneurs behind major European consumer brands like WeTransfer and Just Eat, positioning itself as "the fund we wish we had as founders" rather than a financial-analyst-led VC. The fund specializes in Vertical AI and recommerce with a pre-seed philosophy focused on "distribution, not MVP," investing in founders who can digitize underdigitized industries like freight, scrap metal, and used buses through marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and tech-enabled services.
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