Victor de Leeuw

Venture Capital Investor

📍 Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
VC🌍 Netherlands
6
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Portfolio

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Board Observer
Oct 2021
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Board Observer
May 2021
Yoco is the all-in-one digital commerce platform for small businesses. As one of Africa’s largest fintech companies, we make it easy to sell anywhere, manage your business from anywhere, and grow with smart insights—all under one Yoco profile. Founded in 2015, weve helped over 200,000 small businesses across South Africa accept card payments and access capital—often for the first time. Our ecosystem of payments, software, and tools works seamlessly under one Yoco account. Behind it all is a global team of 350+ people across South Africa and the Netherlands, building world-class solutions for small business growth. Awards and Accolades: CNBC: Top 250 innovative fintech companies (2024) Brand Africa Award: Top 3 Inspirational Youth-Founded Companies (2024) Financial Times Africa: Fastest Growing Companies (2022) Fast Company: Best Workplaces for Innovators (2020 + 2021)
Investor
May 2020
Migo is an embedded lending platform that enables companies to extend credit to consumers and small businesses in their own apps. Migo builds proprietary ML algorithms to assess credit risk using the company’s data then automates credit facilities via cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, simplifying the complex world of lending with a simple API. Migo also expands economic access by enabling credit for populations ignored by traditional credit bureaus, in many cases providing life-changing opportunities to lower-income customers. Migo is headquartered in San Francisco and currently operates in Nigeria and Brazil.
Board Observer
Mar 2020
Openclaims is an award-winning Software-as-a-Service provider with a passion for Repair Management, leading in disrupting the traditional way of how car damages are being handled. In short: Openclaims offers solutions to clients in the insurance, commercial fleet and automotive industry. Our mission is to secure optimal vehicle body repair, by supporting our clients to manage repair and process costs, repair quality, and customer satisfaction. We are committed to creating a healthy insurance ecosystem. Our starting point: a win-win situation for all parties. Thats why we do things differently in our digital repair management solutions for motor insurance. We create the best customer journey for customers as the driver for significantly lower claims and process costs. Join our clients in the new world of digital repair management!
Investor
Mar 2020
BUX is Europe’s fastest growing neobroker and has been making it easy and affordable for Europeans to do more with their money since 2014. By taking down the barriers to the financial markets and disrupting the investing experience, we’re helping new generations of investors and traders discover the world of the financial markets. BUX’s flagship platform, BUX, is making commission-free investing more accessible and allows users to invest in the companies they believe in. BUX is currently available in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Austria, France, Italy, Ireland and Belgium. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the company is a fully owned subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Owlin, recognized as a category leader in Adverse Media Monitoring Solutions Quadrant 2024 by Chartis Research, provides frictionless access to timely external risk signals. Our customers leverage our platform to screen and monitor vendors, suppliers, and counterparties using traditional and alternative data sources. By visualizing complex data in a simple and customizable interface (dashboard, API, newsletter), we make sure that you don’t get lost in the wealth of information. We apply Natural Language Processing and AI to provide valuable insights that are hidden in the data. This enables you and your business to work faster, be better informed, reduce risks and stay on top of the game. Trusted by industry leaders such as Adyen, KPMG, and KKR, Owlin is also proud to partner with innovative companies like Venminder, Trust Alliance, and Stravito, catering to the unique needs of various sectors and roles. Interested to find out how Owlin can add value to your organization? Contact us! We are excited to get to know you. https://owlin.com/contact-owlin/ #ThirdPartyRisk #Monitoring #Screening #NaturalLanguageProcessing #RiskManagement
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2025
Principal
Sep 2025
Empowering founders through funding and support. From the start of your journey to late growth, we have you covered, We invest and provide support to founders based in The Netherlands. We help you accelerate through our early stage fund of €58M and our unique and expansive network. Check out our website for more information! Please send pitches for Graduate Ventures via https://www.graduate.nl/funding or hello@graduate.nl
2022
Investment Manager
Jan 2022
At Velocity, we invest in fintech companies with unstoppable founders. We provide early stage capital funding to leaders with vision, determination, and strong business models. We stand by founders as allies and counselors whenever they hit a crossroads, adversity, or complex issue they can’t untangle alone. Velocity invests globally, partnering early with fintech companies in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Our propensity is to keep investing in subsequent funding rounds. We seek fast growth (hence our name), but we recognize the realities of business, so our sights are set on the best outcomes, not a ticking clock.
2021
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Join over 500,000 investors, from 150 countries, investing in fractions of companies like Google, Apple & Netflix from as little as $1.
Board Observer
May 2021
Yoco is the all-in-one digital commerce platform for small businesses. As one of Africa’s largest fintech companies, we make it easy to sell anywhere, manage your business from anywhere, and grow with smart insights—all under one Yoco profile. Founded in 2015, weve helped over 200,000 small businesses across South Africa accept card payments and access capital—often for the first time. Our ecosystem of payments, software, and tools works seamlessly under one Yoco account. Behind it all is a global team of 350+ people across South Africa and the Netherlands, building world-class solutions for small business growth. Awards and Accolades: CNBC: Top 250 innovative fintech companies (2024) Brand Africa Award: Top 3 Inspirational Youth-Founded Companies (2024) Financial Times Africa: Fastest Growing Companies (2022) Fast Company: Best Workplaces for Innovators (2020 + 2021)
2020
Investor
May 2020
Migo is an embedded lending platform that enables companies to extend credit to consumers and small businesses in their own apps. Migo builds proprietary ML algorithms to assess credit risk using the company’s data then automates credit facilities via cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, simplifying the complex world of lending with a simple API. Migo also expands economic access by enabling credit for populations ignored by traditional credit bureaus, in many cases providing life-changing opportunities to lower-income customers. Migo is headquartered in San Francisco and currently operates in Nigeria and Brazil.
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