# Axivate Capital

> Axivate Capital is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing E-Commerce and News. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axivate-capital
- Website: http://www.axivate.com/

Axivate Capital is an entrepreneurial private equity firm that backs international growth and value creation for Dutch and European companies in the fields of Digital Media, e-Commerce, Internet, and Leisure. They invest in innovative, early-stage and more mature companies with hidden potential.Their team consists of a combination of successfulentrepreneurs and experienced professionals who thrive as leaders or senior managers of large firms, their own ventures, as well as Axivate portfolio companies. This means that they recognize the opportunities, the pitfalls, the ups and downs of doing business in all stages of the company life cycle. they tap into their vast experience and deep network to find tomorrow’s winners, and to add true value to these companies.Axivate Capital partners with fast growing companies that are challenging large markets by means of disruptive business models or innovative technologies. Together, they aim to effectively scale the business and grow into tomorrow’s winners. Although they are a hands-on investor, they do not run the business. They are rather a trusted partner who offers support that is tailored to the specific needs and opportunities of each portfolio company. Each portfolio company has access to their experiences, best practices, sector expertise and network.Their investment criteria are as follows:- Seed- stage and early-stage ventures- Buy-out and business transformation of mature companies- Scalable business model, international growth potential- Strong, skilled and committed management team- Capital commitment between EUR 100.000 and EUR 5 million- Substantial minority stake or majority stake

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 24% |
| News | 3 | 18% |
| Travel | 3 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 12% |
| Advertising | 2 | 12% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 8 | 47% |
| Seed | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 13 | 76% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Ezinga | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-ezinga |
| Bas Rasker | Founder/Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bas-rasker |
| Taco Kievit | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taco-kievit |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Naq | You want to keep your small business safe and protected but actually doing so can be a big burden for small businesses. We understand that you need to focus on growing your business, not on protecting it and conforming to regulation like GDPR. That is why we started Naq: to give you an all-in-one solution to help defend your business.The Naqsolution is designed around four key areas of cyber security; each one critical in helping to protect your business: - Monitoring: Detecting and preventing vulnerabilities before they can be used against you- Training: Enabling your staff to protect themselves and your organisation- Documentation: Keeping you on top of legal and regulatory requirements- Emergency Response: One-on-one support for when your organisation experiences a cyber attack | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Naq | You want to keep your small business safe and protected but actually doing so can be a big burden for small businesses. We understand that you need to focus on growing your business, not on protecting it and conforming to regulation like GDPR. That is why we started Naq: to give you an all-in-one solution to help defend your business.The Naqsolution is designed around four key areas of cyber security; each one critical in helping to protect your business: - Monitoring: Detecting and preventing vulnerabilities before they can be used against you- Training: Enabling your staff to protect themselves and your organisation- Documentation: Keeping you on top of legal and regulatory requirements- Emergency Response: One-on-one support for when your organisation experiences a cyber attack | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2023 |  |
| GET-E | GET-E offers a solution, pre-booking and paying the taxi at the same time as buying your flight ticket. You already know where you want to go and at what time. By sharing this information and pre-booking your taxi you will be able to have a more relaxed journey. | $2.5M |  | Jan 27, 2020 |  |
| Mews | Mews is a cloud-native hospitality platform that provides property management, guest services, payments, and operations tools in a unified system. It helps hotels, hostels, and accommodation groups automate reservations, check-in/out, rate and inventory management, housekeeping, and embedded payment processing through a single dashboard. Theplatform also supports integrations with a wide range of third-party applications and open APIs to extend functionality and adapt to specific business needs. Mews emphasizes an intuitive interface and automation to reduce manual tasks and enable staff to focus on guest interactions and operational workflows. The system includes tools for revenue management, point of sale, event management, and analytics for decision support.Mews serves over 5000 properties across more than 85 countries in all five continents, and works with a huge number of hospitality tech companies to provide hoteliers with an unbeatable platform – no other PMS offers as many integrations. At the 2024 HotelTechAwards, Mews was voted Best PMS by industry peers. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 24, 2016 |  |
| Corendon Airlines | Corendon Airlines Offer the most competitively-priced flights to destinations in Southern Europe: Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Morocco, Israel, Portugal and Tunisia. |  | Private Equity | Nov 16, 2016 |  |
| StyleLounge | StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest.If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourselfwith a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part! |  |  | Aug 25, 2016 |  |
| DigitalAudience | DigitalAudience connects online ad campaigns to CRM databases of premium publishers. This way clients can create ‘custom audiences’ for their campaigns on, for instance, Facebook and DoubleClick. The CRM data will be edited towards an anonymous database.With the money, founders Ruben Niet and Wouter Theijsmeijer will further develop the product,expand in The Netherlands and even look for an expansion abroad. |  | Seed | Apr 07, 2016 |  |
| Qualizorg | Qualizorg is specialized in the collecting, managing and projecting quality-data for healthcare providers. Qualizorg quantifies the quality of healthcare providers by measuring usefull information of the patient. This data is valuable for benchmarking, as well as for insurance companies who are looking for qualitative partners. |  | Private Equity | Feb 17, 2016 |  |
| Readmore | Individuals, organizations and small businesses can create their own digital magazine trough the Readmore website. The magazines can be read on computers and iPads. Readmore is totally free and offers its publishers the possibility to participate in an advertising program, where Readmore will take care of the advertisements for the publisher. |  | Series A | Sep 08, 2015 |  |
| StyleLounge | StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest.If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourselfwith a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part! | $2.5M | Series A | Aug 11, 2015 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Astutia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astutia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ta-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rocket Internet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rocket-internet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Axivate Capital invest in?

Axivate Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, News and Travel startups, most often at Private Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Axivate Capital's check size?

Axivate Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$1.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Axivate Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Axivate Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Axivate Capital?

The team at Axivate Capital includes Andreas Ezinga (Partner), Bas Rasker (Founder/Managing Partner) and Taco Kievit (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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