Bart Jan Manten

Founder at Neolea | Investor & Board Member

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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8y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Oct 2024
People, music, art, food, places and design. Everything we have thought, touched, broken and rebuilt has been poured into Something & Nothing. This is our first and best album. There is no eureka moment, unique selling point or false function. There are a million pieces to this story. We dont know the ending but this is the beginning. A love of flavour, our planet and beauty. We dont know what will happen next, but we are excited to find out. “You have to have something to have nothing and you have to have nothing to have something, it’s so simple but nobody sees it” — Alan Watts
Board Member/Investor
May 2024
IntraVu gives physicians a big opportunity with an exceptionally small-size, high resolution, single-use advanced imaging system. This minimally-invasive technology allows for quick, easy, and direct visualization of interior spaces. It is ideal for a multitude of current procedures as well as optically guided injections, with numerous additional application possibilities in regenerative medicine.
late stageMedical Device
Investor
Jul 2021
CHANGE - On a mission to disrupt the age-old tea sector and make it fair for all. We aim to sell 250 million cups of Frank tea to lift 50.000 tea farmers out of poverty in 10 years. As featured in: Forbes | BNR | Business Insider | Parool | Financieel Dagblad | Telegraaf | RTL Z | Sprout | AD Tea is the worlds most consumed beverage, but the majority of smallholder farmers earn less than 3% of the retail value of tea. The tea sector is broken and desperately needs fixing. Heres how we fix it: By delivering high quality teas with the best taste straight from the plantation into consumers letterbox, skipping all middlemen, we can get farmers onto a living wage and guarantee full transparency from leaf to cup. Yearly we invest 2% of our revenues back into the farmer communities in Kenya, whether we are profitable or not. But lets be frank, were not a perfect company, and it takes all of us to change the tea game for the better. Join us and #tastethechange
Investor
May 2018
Consumer-to-consumer online classified ads in Greece
Experience · 5 entries
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2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
People, music, art, food, places and design. Everything we have thought, touched, broken and rebuilt has been poured into Something & Nothing. This is our first and best album. There is no eureka moment, unique selling point or false function. There are a million pieces to this story. We dont know the ending but this is the beginning. A love of flavour, our planet and beauty. We dont know what will happen next, but we are excited to find out. “You have to have something to have nothing and you have to have nothing to have something, it’s so simple but nobody sees it” — Alan Watts
Board Member/Investor
May 2024
IntraVu gives physicians a big opportunity with an exceptionally small-size, high resolution, single-use advanced imaging system. This minimally-invasive technology allows for quick, easy, and direct visualization of interior spaces. It is ideal for a multitude of current procedures as well as optically guided injections, with numerous additional application possibilities in regenerative medicine.
late stageMedical Device
Founder
Jan 2024
Taste comes first. Second is inspiring design that reminds you to enjoy great taste and take the time to indulge in it. Perhaps even take a moment to describe what it is you’re tasting to add to the experience? We are producers of modern Mediterranean products which all started with extra virgin olive oil back in 2013. Next we added hand harvested sea salt and biodynamic Greek sparkling wines. This year we introduces naturally sweet balsamic vinegar. We’re not a premium brand, we just believe in products of premium quality that have the power to change your mood just by looking at them. We respect authenticity and challenge it where necessary. It’s our ultimate goal to give you the best and most fresh products possible. As they were meant to be. Today’s world needs transparency, freshness, inspiring design and above all else an unlimited commitment to great taste. That’s what connects people and creates happiness. And happy people? Can do anything they put their minds to.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
CHANGE - On a mission to disrupt the age-old tea sector and make it fair for all. We aim to sell 250 million cups of Frank tea to lift 50.000 tea farmers out of poverty in 10 years. As featured in: Forbes | BNR | Business Insider | Parool | Financieel Dagblad | Telegraaf | RTL Z | Sprout | AD Tea is the worlds most consumed beverage, but the majority of smallholder farmers earn less than 3% of the retail value of tea. The tea sector is broken and desperately needs fixing. Heres how we fix it: By delivering high quality teas with the best taste straight from the plantation into consumers letterbox, skipping all middlemen, we can get farmers onto a living wage and guarantee full transparency from leaf to cup. Yearly we invest 2% of our revenues back into the farmer communities in Kenya, whether we are profitable or not. But lets be frank, were not a perfect company, and it takes all of us to change the tea game for the better. Join us and #tastethechange
2018
Investor
May 2018
Consumer-to-consumer online classified ads in Greece
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