Patrick Kerssemakers at DFF Ventures focuses on first-cheque investments in under-digitized physical industries like logistics and recycling, backing vertical AI and B2B2C marketplace models that start as workflow tools and expand into full infrastructure platforms. He built fonQ from startup to €65m revenue over 15 years before its strategic sale, and now uses that operational experience to help founders navigate similar growth and exit processes.
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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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