Mike van der Heijden

Organic Growth & Search Strategy Advisory | Founder @ Portal Ventures

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
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Investor & SEO Advisor
May 2024
PropertyScout, a Thailand based Proptech start up, is an end-to-end real estate transaction platform connecting over 5,500 agents and agencies with buyers, renters and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, its technology platform and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to-place for buying, selling, and renting real-estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor
Apr 2023
Were Marketplace Capital, a venture fund obsessed with marketplaces. Apply for funding: bit.ly/marketplaceapply
Investor
Aug 2022
CarExperts vision is to become the most trusted experts in car ownership, enabling confident decisions. Millions of consumers rely on our independent, industry-leading voice to inform their new car purchases each month through our valuable tools, reports, news, car reviews, comparisons, videos and more. We are now embarking on an ambitious transformation by launching transactional products that help facilitate the purchase of new cars. Aided by a team of passionate Car Experts and a detailed strategy with clear purpose, we are continuing to experience rapid growth and are investing heavily to achieve our vision.
Investor & SEO Advisor
Jan 2022
Cloutly helps local businesses automate and personalise customer review generation, so they can rapidly build social proof on the channels they rely on for new business. Its the fastest way to get your customers talking about you.
Investor
Dec 2021
sidespace.com.au is Australia’s Commercial Property Marketplace. Offices, Industrial/Warehouse, Retail, Medical/Consulting, Land/Development Our mission is to make it faster, cheaper and easier to lease and purchase commercial property. List for free. Pay only upon success. Join 100s of leading developers, agents and landlords Australia-wide.
Investor & SEO Advisor
Sep 2021
Fresha is the world’s leading marketplace platform for the beauty, wellness, and self-care industry, trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. For consumers, Fresha offers a seamless way to discover, book, and pay for beauty and wellness services with top local professionals. For businesses, Fresha provides an all-in-one platform that streamlines operations, from appointment management to client engagement, helping them grow effortlessly with powerful business software, integrated payments, financial services and cutting-edge technology solutions. Fresha’s comprehensive ecosystem empowers businesses and professionals with everything they need to operate seamlessly and efficiently. From appointment bookings, point-of-sale, client management, and marketing automation to loyalty programs, inventory management, and team coordination, Fresha provides an all-in-one solution designed to drive business growth. Fresha’s consumer marketplace helps businesses unlock their full revenue potential by maximizing online bookings and leveraging automated marketing tools. Through seamless integrations with major platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Google, businesses can attract more clients while Fresha’s mobile apps ensure a smooth booking experience. Today, 130,000+ businesses and 500,000+ professionals rely on Fresha, with over 1 billion appointments processed to date. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Fresha has a global presence with offices in New York City, Orlando, Vancouver, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Sydney, Singapore and Dubai.
Investor
Jun 2021
Accelerator: https://www.startmate.com/accelerator/program First Believers: https://www.startmate.com/first-believers/program We back the most ambitious founders in ANZ 🚀 From founders who are pre-revenue to scaling globally, Startmate is the epicentre of startup ambition. We run programs for founders, operators and investors, fuelled by a community that believes big. You bring the ambition. We’ll bring the jet fuel ✈️
Investor
Feb 2021
Women continue to face a multitude of barriers in the workplace, which are often compounded with prejudices such as racism, ableism, and ageism. These inequities are more than just a moral issue; holding back over half the world’s population is negatively impacting us all, including businesses. The WORK180 team is dedicated to removing these barriers, and we do this by focusing on our mission: To raise organizational standards so that all women* can choose workplaces where they can thrive. *by women, we mean all who identify and/or experience oppression as a woman (including cis, trans, intersex, non-binary or gender non-conforming individuals).
Investor
Nov 2020
Personalized Conversations At Scale - Carsfast services banks, specialist lenders, and dealers to find, convert and retain customers powered by omni channel and omni interaction technologies
early stageAutomotive
Investor & SEO Advisor
Aug 2020
Programa is trusted by thousands of architects and interior designers in more than 90 countries. Our vertical SaaS platform helps designers run their business and projects more efficiently and brings their projects, processes, products and purchasing together in one place.
Investor & SEO Advisor (Sold to CarExpert.com.au)
Jul 2020
Buying a new car? See what others paid and connect to Australias best new car dealers
Investor & SEO Advisor (Sold to Fresha.com)
Nov 2019
BookWell is a fast-growing online beauty and wellness network and booking platform. Its a name that is gaining a lot of traction, as its revolutionising the way customers find and book beauty and wellness experiences. BookWell provides customers with a platform to search for beauty and wellness services in an area, check a business availability and book and pay online anywhere at anytime. Beauty and wellness businesses listed on the platform can connect with new clients, promote their businesses and fill the gaps in their appointment book with the help of their very own 24/7 receptionist. The company is made up of a team of experienced, passionate and collaborative professionals, who are based around Australia and headquartered in Melbourne.
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Aug 2018
LatAm Autos is the leading online classifieds and content platform in the Latin American automobile industry, with operations in 6 countries across South America. LatAm Autos aims to integrate the auto sales industry in the region by facilitating the contact between buyers and sellers, and providing key information for the auto acquisition process. We also work continuously to offer new services on our platforms as mechanical warranty, online insurance, vehicle tracking and even financing for the purchase of a vehicle. Our headquarters are in CDMX, México.
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2024
Investor & SEO Advisor
May 2024
PropertyScout, a Thailand based Proptech start up, is an end-to-end real estate transaction platform connecting over 5,500 agents and agencies with buyers, renters and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, its technology platform and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to-place for buying, selling, and renting real-estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
mid stageReal Estate
2023
Investor
Apr 2023
Were Marketplace Capital, a venture fund obsessed with marketplaces. Apply for funding: bit.ly/marketplaceapply
Partner
Jan 2023
As a micro agency, we can deliver high-end work for a fraction of the cost of what a larger agency would charge. That’s because you work directly with me and perhaps a few other carefully selected people making us a highly-skilled and super lean operation. We are very confident in our abilities so we don’t require large levels of commitment to employ our services. No Catch, No Contract
2022
Investor
Aug 2022
CarExperts vision is to become the most trusted experts in car ownership, enabling confident decisions. Millions of consumers rely on our independent, industry-leading voice to inform their new car purchases each month through our valuable tools, reports, news, car reviews, comparisons, videos and more. We are now embarking on an ambitious transformation by launching transactional products that help facilitate the purchase of new cars. Aided by a team of passionate Car Experts and a detailed strategy with clear purpose, we are continuing to experience rapid growth and are investing heavily to achieve our vision.
Investor & SEO Advisor
Jan 2022
Cloutly helps local businesses automate and personalise customer review generation, so they can rapidly build social proof on the channels they rely on for new business. Its the fastest way to get your customers talking about you.
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