Sophie Heijenberg

Women in VC NL is a vibrant and empowering community dedicated to fostering connections, collaboration, and career growth amongst women in the venture capital industry in the Netherlands. With a dynamic network of 170 accomplished professionals from Analyst to Managing Partner positions, we are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion within the VC ecosystem.

Investing in tickets of €1-5m in European software startups, offering an alternative to the rigid, passive investment approach that is prevalent across Europe. Flexibility and active support are the core principles on which we built our company culture of today. Please reach out to us if - as an entrepreneur, you have heard good things about us and are ambitious - as an investor/LP, you are looking for superior returns and the possibility to choose your deals

Women in VC NL is a vibrant and empowering community dedicated to fostering connections, collaboration, and career growth amongst women in the venture capital industry in the Netherlands. With a dynamic network of 170 accomplished professionals from Analyst to Managing Partner positions, we are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion within the VC ecosystem.

Newton Venture Program provides venture capital training and development for aspiring investors, practising investors, and others in the venture space. Our mission is to level the playing field for people from typically overlooked and underestimated backgrounds, ensuring that the next generation of investors represent the world we live in. Newton Alumni span the globe with more than 500 people from all backgrounds going on to secure positions in VC firms, accelerate their careers in VC, and become disruptors of the status quo. As of the start of 2024, 46% identify as female or non-binary, and 49% identify as the global majority. Newton is a joint venture between Phoenix Court and London Business School with founding partner, HSBC Innovation Banking. With our unique blend of faculty and practitioner teaching, we are training the investors of tomorrow to back the ventures of the future.

Investing in tickets of €1-5m in European software startups, offering an alternative to the rigid, passive investment approach that is prevalent across Europe. Flexibility and active support are the core principles on which we built our company culture of today. Please reach out to us if - as an entrepreneur, you have heard good things about us and are ambitious - as an investor/LP, you are looking for superior returns and the possibility to choose your deals

Avedon Capital Partners is a growth investor passionate about supporting exceptional entrepreneurs and high growth companies to realise their fast track ambitions. Our goal is to partner with and help distinctive entrepreneurs and management teams to realize a company’s full growth potential through for example roll-out, geographical expansion and buy-and-build strategies. With meaningful minority or majority equity investments in companies we build true partnerships and display a strong entrepreneurial spirit throughout our organization. We are anxious to discuss how we can help you grow your company and invite you to hear more about how we work and see how we can partner together. We have extensive experience and expertise across the following sectors: - Software & Technology - Smart Industries - Business Services - Consumer & Health Avedon Capital Partners invests in rapidly growing companies that have reached an inflection point where a growth equity investment can create significant value for shareholders. The companies we would love to support have the following characteristics: - Investment size: €15 to €60 million equity investment - Company value: €50 to €150 million enterprise value - Sales: 10% + annual sales growth - Shareholding: minority and majority growth investments - Geography: Primarily Benelux and DACH

Venture IQ helps its clients to make smart investment and partnering decisions. We provide leading corporates and investors with company scouting and selection support. Our team is an interdisciplinary mix of experienced venture capital investors, consultants, technology analysts, data scientists, and developers. We help our clients structure and map out niche markets, analyze competitive landscapes, and efficiently identify, compare, and rank the firms in the space. Venture IQ enables its clients to stay ahead of the competition, by enabling proactive investment- and partnership decision-making on the basis of data, not emotions. Through developing state-of-the-art, specialized software we out-compete the market in price and quality Catalist is our proprietary scouting and collaboration platform. It enables efficiency through automated data gathering, insightful data visualization, and 100% transparency in the screening and selection process. Catalist is both available through our services or as a stand-alone product. Venture IQ is a leading provider of proprietary market insights based in Europe, servicing over 100 clients globally, with a growing team of software developers, data scientists, technology analysts, and investment experts.