Hidde Hoogcarspel is a founding partner at DFF Ventures who entered venture capital from an unusual background of founding education-focused companies like SpaceBuzz, which lets schoolchildren virtually experience space travel, and SchoolKassa, a platform for transparent parental contributions at schools. He focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in vertical SaaS and B2B marketplaces that digitize legacy industries, bringing extensive board governance experience from handling 30+ board resolutions across multiple co-investors and positioning himself as someone who combines data analysis with creative thinking to reduce legal friction for founders.