Bastiaan Janmaat
Managing Director @ Linse Capital
San Francisco, United States
Bastiaan Janmaat is a first year MBA candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Bastiaan is originally from the Netherlands but he was born in Japan and grew up in Singapore. Bastiaan worked as an analyst for 3 years in Goldman Sachs’ European Special Situations Group (ESSG) in London. In this role, Bastiaan was also a BoardDirector of Nordic Windpower, an early-stage ESSG portfolio company building two-bladed wind turbines. Bastiaan enjoys playing many sports, including soccer, rugby, and tennis. Bastiaan is co-founder of LifeSwap - a marketplace for job experiences, through which people are empowered to have unique adventures and experiences of various durations. Think of a job you’ve always been curious about, whether as a voyeur or for career exploration - LifeSwap allows you to see what the job is really like. Work in a bakery for a morning, experience a day as an advertising executive, or shadow a Stanford athlete. Visit: www.TheLifeSwap.com.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
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Industries Bastiaan Janmaat invests in
Stages Bastiaan Janmaat invests in
Countries Bastiaan Janmaat invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Drones 1 (17%)
- Robotics 1 (17%)
- Security 1 (17%)
- Software 1 (17%)
- Aerospace 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series D 3 (50%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Series E 1 (17%)
Investments
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Impulse Space
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Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $500M / Series D / Jun 02, 2026 | |
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Impulse Space
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Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $300M / Series C / Jun 03, 2025 | |
Skydio
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Skydio is a drone manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.It develops AI-powered drones to deliver the power and flying cameras without the complexity. The company's drones use an array of cameras and proprietary computer vision technology torecognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict into the future to make intelligent decisions, enabling users by flying themselves through the most demanding tasks or keeping them safe from obstacles when they want to take control. The company's debut drone, the R1, could track a target and film them while avoiding obstacles without any human intervention required. Then the company released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. Its flagship product, the X2, is equipped with seven cameras, 100x zoom, night vision, and promises to turn ordinary users into expert pilots thanks to its self-piloting abilities. It is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA, and UP.Partners.Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, and Matt Donahoe founded Klarna in Redwood City, California in 2014. | $170M / Series E / Nov 15, 2024 | |
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Skydio
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Skydio is a drone manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.It develops AI-powered drones to deliver the power and flying cameras without the complexity. The company's drones use an array of cameras and proprietary computer vision technology torecognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict into the future to make intelligent decisions, enabling users by flying themselves through the most demanding tasks or keeping them safe from obstacles when they want to take control. The company's debut drone, the R1, could track a target and film them while avoiding obstacles without any human intervention required. Then the company released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. Its flagship product, the X2, is equipped with seven cameras, 100x zoom, night vision, and promises to turn ordinary users into expert pilots thanks to its self-piloting abilities. It is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA, and UP.Partners.Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, and Matt Donahoe founded Klarna in Redwood City, California in 2014. | $230M / Series E / Feb 27, 2023 | |
Verkada
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Verkada builds modern security solutions that help enterprises run safer, smarter buildings. Our mission: Modernize the world of enterprise building security.Verkada’s enterprise security solution combines easy to install security cameras, environmental sensors, alarms and access control with intelligent, cloud-based software—all in a scalable,user-friendly system. More than 7800 organizations, including 40 Fortune 500 companies, use Verkada to protect people and assets, secure facilities, and gain new insights that improve the efficiency of their operations. Verkada’s vision is to be the operating system that runs every building in the world.The company was founded by computer scientists and security experts from Stanford University, and Hans Robertson, the former co-founder and COO of Cisco Meraki. Verkada is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in London and Sydney. | $205M / Series D / Sep 14, 2022 | |
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Skydio
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Skydio is a drone manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.It develops AI-powered drones to deliver the power and flying cameras without the complexity. The company's drones use an array of cameras and proprietary computer vision technology torecognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict into the future to make intelligent decisions, enabling users by flying themselves through the most demanding tasks or keeping them safe from obstacles when they want to take control. The company's debut drone, the R1, could track a target and film them while avoiding obstacles without any human intervention required. Then the company released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. Its flagship product, the X2, is equipped with seven cameras, 100x zoom, night vision, and promises to turn ordinary users into expert pilots thanks to its self-piloting abilities. It is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA, and UP.Partners.Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, and Matt Donahoe founded Klarna in Redwood City, California in 2014. | $170M / Series D / Feb 28, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Linse Capital
Linse Capital is a growth equity firm investing in technology companies in the transportation, energy, and logistics sector. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Linse Capital Contacts
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Bastiaan Janmaat
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Dario Constantine
Senior Associate
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Michael Linse
Managing Director & Founder
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Robert Kaufman
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What does Bastiaan Janmaat invest in?
Bastiaan Janmaat invests primarily in Drones, Robotics and Security startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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