Samir Ahmad

Tech & Deep tech Investor, Growth equity

📍 The Randstad, Netherlands, Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020
VC🌍 Netherlands
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Board Member
Mar 2020
With Viloc you can Locate & Recover your assets without the need for traditional-, power-consuming and expensive GPS-systems. Viloc offers a plug-and-play LoRa certified™ tracker for wireless, low-power, low-cost assetmanagement. At Viloc, we have developed a LoRa certified™ tracker that combines the best of both worlds: LoRa and Active-RFID. By applying the newest technology, our Viloc Tags attain an average lifespan of up to five years on its built in battery while generating up to 5 locations per day over LoRa, and 160 per day over Active RFID. Please click on the following link to download our brochures: https://www.goo.gl/ryN9WH
Board Member
Jan 2020
Minut is the intelligence layer for proactive property management. From short-term rentals and student housing to multifamily units and aparthotels, Minut helps operators to stay one step ahead of issues like smoking, noise, and mold. With real-time insights and proactive alerts, Minut is creating a new layer of infrastructure for shared spaces, giving teams the foresight to run smarter, safer, and more profitable properties.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
EclecticIQ is a global provider of threat intelligence technology and services that empower customers to neutralize critical cyber threats to their business. Guided by our values — being curious, bold, accountable, and collaborative — we help security teams make smarter, faster decisions with dynamic solutions that reduce complexity and streamline threat detection and response. From our AI-embedded threat intelligence platform to our browser extension, our products improve workflows, reduce analyst fatigue, and mitigate cyber risk. Headquartered in Amsterdam, our teams in Europe, North America, and APAC serve the most targeted organizations, including governments and the world’s largest enterprises.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Cloudify features a unique EaaS; Environment as a Service technology, which is responsible for the lifecycle management of applications and network services. Cloudify packages infrastructure, networking, and existing automation tools into certified blueprints. Cloudify features different orchestration and automation domains as part of one common CI/CD pipeline, intent-based modelling, and Day-2 operation engines. Cloudify’s Day- 2 operations focus on maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing the system throughout the lifecycle. Using the Cloudify console, users are able to import existing automation templates and scripts, which automatically convert into environments. The environments can be exported to ServiceNow which enables users to deploy, continuously manage and maintain them as part of workflows. Cloudify’s unique open-source platform features a powerful service composition engine with out-of-the-box integrations for all cloud environments and existing toolchains. Cloudify's built-in integrations allow applications to efficiently run across multiple clouds or IT infrastructures such as Kubernetes, ServiceNow, Ansible, and Terraform. Deploying a multi-domain, clustered service may include multiple steps and interdependencies, with Cloudify tracking and supporting remains easy.
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2026
Managing Partner
Jan 2026
Starting where VC leaves off and PE hasn’t yet arrived - backing ambitious companies to accelerate growth and scale, guided by a network of seasoned industry leaders
2021
Principal
Aug 2021
DTE Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm, established in 2024, and active in the lower mid-market. We partner with the next generation of sustainable industry leaders advancing the Energy, Food and Health transitions. We invest in commercially proven technology companies across North-Western Europe that apply advanced solutions to solve systemic sustainability challenges. These are businesses with strong fundamentals, clear market traction (typically with at least €10 million in revenues or order book), and a deep alignment with environmental and societal goals. With a hands-on approach to growth acceleration, our team combines sector knowledge, investment experience, and a strong commitment to impact to help founders and management teams realize ambitious plans. This is reinforced by DTE’s pool of dedicated industry experts, who strengthen leadership teams, provide strategic support, and open doors to global customers and critical manufacturing infrastructure. Together, we drive value through operational excellence, expanding sales, international expansion and buy-and-build strategies. In doing so, we aim to scale the next generation of technology-driven companies powering the world’s sustainable transitions.
2020
Investment Director
Jul 2020
KPN Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of KPN, The Netherlands’ leading telecom & ICT service provider. KPN Ventures aims to establish value-creating partnerships with innovative European technology companies providing access to capital, industry expertise, professional network and customer channels. Our Investment Scope: We focus on (early) growth-stage investments (series A/B/C) in European high growth companies. Our investments typically range from 1 to 5 million euro for minority stakes, building long-term partnerships, ultimately aiming for external exits, not acquisitions. Our Sector Focus: We focus on growth sectors connected to our Telecom & ICT activities including: B2B: - Cyber Security - Internet of Things (IOT) - Digital Health - Converged Hybrid Working - Data Exchanges - Mission and business critical services B2C & B2B2C: - Cyber Security - Digital Service Aggregation (Smart Home, OTT, Gaming, Ar/VR) - Digital Health Technology trends & Digital Enterprise: - Digitization and automation - Networking Technology - ESG KPN Ventures has its offices in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has invested in a.o. Rangeforce, Cequence, Qollabi, Censornet, Lendis, Smart Photonics, Actility, Dimenco, EclecticIQ, Sensara and Sentiance.
Board Member
Mar 2020
With Viloc you can Locate & Recover your assets without the need for traditional-, power-consuming and expensive GPS-systems. Viloc offers a plug-and-play LoRa certified™ tracker for wireless, low-power, low-cost assetmanagement. At Viloc, we have developed a LoRa certified™ tracker that combines the best of both worlds: LoRa and Active-RFID. By applying the newest technology, our Viloc Tags attain an average lifespan of up to five years on its built in battery while generating up to 5 locations per day over LoRa, and 160 per day over Active RFID. Please click on the following link to download our brochures: https://www.goo.gl/ryN9WH
Board Member
Jan 2020
Minut is the intelligence layer for proactive property management. From short-term rentals and student housing to multifamily units and aparthotels, Minut helps operators to stay one step ahead of issues like smoking, noise, and mold. With real-time insights and proactive alerts, Minut is creating a new layer of infrastructure for shared spaces, giving teams the foresight to run smarter, safer, and more profitable properties.
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2019–2020 · 4 investments
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