Sjoerd Nikkelen is a venture partner at DFF Ventures who specializes in recommerce and circular electronics investments while also serving as co-founder and co-CEO of MoPhones, a refurbished phone financing marketplace in Africa. Based in Cape Town, he leads DFF's investments beyond Europe into emerging markets like MENA and Africa, drawing on his extensive background scaling online marketplace platforms across multiple emerging markets at companies like OLX and dubizzle.
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DFF Ventures
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Marketplaces, SaaS, AI, Fintech, Logistics
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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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