Martijn Van Heeswijk

Corporate Development (M&A and Venture investments) at Vinted

📍 The Randstad, Netherlands, Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
VC🌍 Netherlands
6
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8y
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Portfolio

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Investor
2021
Qover is a leader in embedded insurance orchestration, aiming to create a global safety net with insurance that empowers people to live life to the fullest. It was founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, who had a clear vision of the future of insurance: a simple, transparent and accessible service across borders. Its purpose: enabling any company to harness the power of technology to embed insurance as a native component of or add-on to their core product or service, increasing the company’s opportunities to grow and decreasing the cost of insurance as the business scales. Qover’s pan-European embedded insurance orchestration provides seamless digital insurance experiences to over 3 million users across 32 countries, and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Deliveroo, Canyon, Monese, Cowboy and many others. Ensure your success with Qover.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer
2021
We believe in thriving local communities across the globe. Independent retailers and brands are the glue of the social fabric that makes a strong society. However, they don’t have the access and resources to benefit from technological progress. They are trapped in the past. Therefore, we have made it our mission to empower them, as entrepreneurs, so they can unlock their full potential and embrace new opportunities. Orderchamp is reimagining wholesale by empowering retailers and brands with technological solutions that help them succeed in tomorrow’s market. We’re using the power of curation, technology, data, and machine learning to connect a community of over 150,000 independent retailers and 7,000 brands across the globe. We are constantly pushing the boundaries of technology with our team of over 20 nationalities, backed up by top-tier investors. Interested in unlocking a bright tomorrow for businesses and communities across the globe? Join us in one of our 2 offices: Amsterdam or Thessaloniki.
Board Observer
Mar 2020
Headquartered in The UK (London), TerraPay believes that the smallest payment deserves a borderless journey as safe as the largest. The company has been building an ever-expanding payments highway that empowers businesses to create transparent customer experiences with an uninterrupted, secure, and real-time global passage for every payment, however small or large. Registered and regulated across 26 global markets, TerraPay is a leading global partner to banks, mobile wallets, money transfer operators, merchants, and financial institutions, creating a more expansive and inclusive international financial ecosystem. With access to payments infrastructure that spans the globe, their partners become beacons of the promise of global financial inclusion.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
Founded in 2017 & launched in 2018, Leavy.co is a young French scale-up already spotted as Europe’s answer to Airbnb. On a clear mission to unlock travel for everyone, our platform gets straight to the point: we pay directly, in advance & within 24 hours, users willing to share their homes or care for fellow travellers. Within 18 months, we opened offices in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Rome, and Lisbon. Today we are active in 83 cities! Join Leavy today, travel the world with us and bring your next trip a little closer!
Board Observer
2019
We are the global leader in online prepaid payments and our mission is to 'Make Prepaid Easy'. We retail over 16,000 digital vouchers and prepaid solutions, including gift cards, gaming cards, prepaid money cards, and mobile phone top-ups from brands including Apple, Google, Spotify, T-Mobile, AT&T, Xbox, and PlayStation. We operate in over 180 markets worldwide with our powerful global network of digital marketplaces including our global shops Recharge.com and Starselect.com alongside country-specific labels Beltegoed.nl, Recharge.fr, Guthaben.de, Herladen.com, and Mobiletopup.co.uk. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in Eindhoven and Lisbon, we are backed by Prime Ventures, Smartfin, Committed Capital, and BlackRock.
Experience · 8 entries
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2022
Corporate Development Principal
May 2022
Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and were looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission: Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life. Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces. Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuanias first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and weve grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.
2021
Investor
2021
Qover is a leader in embedded insurance orchestration, aiming to create a global safety net with insurance that empowers people to live life to the fullest. It was founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, who had a clear vision of the future of insurance: a simple, transparent and accessible service across borders. Its purpose: enabling any company to harness the power of technology to embed insurance as a native component of or add-on to their core product or service, increasing the company’s opportunities to grow and decreasing the cost of insurance as the business scales. Qover’s pan-European embedded insurance orchestration provides seamless digital insurance experiences to over 3 million users across 32 countries, and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Deliveroo, Canyon, Monese, Cowboy and many others. Ensure your success with Qover.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer
2021
We believe in thriving local communities across the globe. Independent retailers and brands are the glue of the social fabric that makes a strong society. However, they don’t have the access and resources to benefit from technological progress. They are trapped in the past. Therefore, we have made it our mission to empower them, as entrepreneurs, so they can unlock their full potential and embrace new opportunities. Orderchamp is reimagining wholesale by empowering retailers and brands with technological solutions that help them succeed in tomorrow’s market. We’re using the power of curation, technology, data, and machine learning to connect a community of over 150,000 independent retailers and 7,000 brands across the globe. We are constantly pushing the boundaries of technology with our team of over 20 nationalities, backed up by top-tier investors. Interested in unlocking a bright tomorrow for businesses and communities across the globe? Join us in one of our 2 offices: Amsterdam or Thessaloniki.
2020
Board Observer
Mar 2020
Headquartered in The UK (London), TerraPay believes that the smallest payment deserves a borderless journey as safe as the largest. The company has been building an ever-expanding payments highway that empowers businesses to create transparent customer experiences with an uninterrupted, secure, and real-time global passage for every payment, however small or large. Registered and regulated across 26 global markets, TerraPay is a leading global partner to banks, mobile wallets, money transfer operators, merchants, and financial institutions, creating a more expansive and inclusive international financial ecosystem. With access to payments infrastructure that spans the globe, their partners become beacons of the promise of global financial inclusion.
2019
Board Observer
Jan 2019
Founded in 2017 & launched in 2018, Leavy.co is a young French scale-up already spotted as Europe’s answer to Airbnb. On a clear mission to unlock travel for everyone, our platform gets straight to the point: we pay directly, in advance & within 24 hours, users willing to share their homes or care for fellow travellers. Within 18 months, we opened offices in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Rome, and Lisbon. Today we are active in 83 cities! Join Leavy today, travel the world with us and bring your next trip a little closer!
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