Thijs Gitmans

Partner, SHIFT Invest
Thijs Gitmans backs pre-revenue startups, relying on domain experts for niche validation, seeks founders with conviction and humility, prioritizes real additionality over surface sustainability and preserves speed in corporate venturing.
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About Thijs Gitmans

Thijs Gitmans is willing to invest before a company has revenue or proven demand, often relying on domain experts to judge whether a niche product will work rather than general VC instincts, and he looks for founders who combine conviction and humility with the ability to learn and execute. He favors an independent, in-between role in corporate venturing so startups keep their speed, screens for real additionality rather than surface-level sustainability claims, and treats market timing as a separate, often underestimated factor from team quality.

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Energy, Food & Ag, Transportation, Logistics, Climate
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SHIFT Invest has a dedicated Impact Committee of outside experts that has spent over a decade screening investments and sharpening companies' theories of change, ties part of its team's success fee to the fund's environmental impact performance, and uses the planetary boundaries framework to guide its sector strategies and map portfolio exposure. It also runs a dedicated Thematic Technology Transfer Fund with Dutch technical universities and TNO to commercialize deeptech from research institutions, invests across all stages from pre-seed to growth, and has brought in corporate investors like KLM, NS and Royal Schiphol Group specifically to help decarbonize mobility and logistics.

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