# Coen van Duiven

> Coen van Duiven is a Series A investor at henQ (Amsterdam) backing SaaS and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [henQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henq-invest)
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coen-van-duiven-3b6422
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vanduiven
- Website: https://x.com/vanduiven
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coen.vanduiven

Coen van Duiven is a Series A investor at henQ in Amsterdam focused on SaaS and Software. Coen van Duiven is based out of Zurich, Zurich, and is the Co-Founder and Partner of henQ. Coen previously worked at Benelux Techtour as a president. Coen van Duiven attended the Delft University of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |
| PaaS | 1 | 8% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $185M | Series C | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Formulate | Formulate provides an advanced AI-engine, Retail DecisionCloud, that helps retailers transform simple sales data into better merchandising decisions. It is a cloud product that that turns POS data into competitive intelligence and analytics using machine learning. | $4.1M | Seed | Jan 30, 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. | $33M | Series B | Aug 28, 2019 |  |
| Aidence | Aidence provides radiologists with a software platform that automatically detects and classifies various disorders on multiple imaging modalities. We are using Deep Learning, a revolutionary form of Artificial Intelligence, to teach computers to read medical images and automatically provide structured reports. | $10.6M | Series A | Feb 20, 2019 |  |
| Impraise | Impraise is a People Enablement Platform that makes performance and development initiatives meaningful for people, actionable for managers, and painless for HR. With hundreds of customers worldwide, Impraise is the partner of choice when it comes to creating a culture that empowers your most valuable asset—people. The web and mobile platform isdesigned to help customers increase productivity and engagement through flexible reviews, regular feedback exchange, and structured coaching moments. | $10.6M | Series A | Jul 25, 2018 |  |
| 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. | $6.4M | Series A | Jun 03, 2018 |  |
| HousingAnywhere | HousingAnywhere is the world’s largest rental accommodation platform for mid-term stays. We bring together accommodation providers and international students, expats, or young professionals looking for a new home in their city of destination. HousingAnywhere takes the stress out of the process of relocating by enabling tenants to interact withadvertisers directly online and book their place immediately, from wherever they are based, at the fraction of the fees paid to brick&mortar rental agencies. HousingAnywhere is a pure self-service platform with over 80,000 active listings and over 5 million users across more than 60 countries. | $6.4M | Series B | May 08, 2018 |  |
| Aidence | Aidence provides radiologists with a software platform that automatically detects and classifies various disorders on multiple imaging modalities. We are using Deep Learning, a revolutionary form of Artificial Intelligence, to teach computers to read medical images and automatically provide structured reports. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| HousingAnywhere | HousingAnywhere is the world’s largest rental accommodation platform for mid-term stays. We bring together accommodation providers and international students, expats, or young professionals looking for a new home in their city of destination. HousingAnywhere takes the stress out of the process of relocating by enabling tenants to interact withadvertisers directly online and book their place immediately, from wherever they are based, at the fraction of the fees paid to brick&mortar rental agencies. HousingAnywhere is a pure self-service platform with over 80,000 active listings and over 5 million users across more than 60 countries. | $5.3M | Series A | Jan 09, 2017 |  |
| Impraise | Impraise is a People Enablement Platform that makes performance and development initiatives meaningful for people, actionable for managers, and painless for HR. With hundreds of customers worldwide, Impraise is the partner of choice when it comes to creating a culture that empowers your most valuable asset—people. The web and mobile platform isdesigned to help customers increase productivity and engagement through flexible reviews, regular feedback exchange, and structured coaching moments. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 14, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Thayer Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thayer-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Northzone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northzone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Real Web](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-web) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Derive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derive-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About henQ

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Early-stage funding for the odd ones out in B2B software.

5 contacts available at henQ.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coen van Duiven | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coen-van-duiven |
| Herman Hintzen | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herman-hintzen |
| Jan Andriessen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-andriessen |
| Mick Mackaay | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mick-mackaay |
| Orphée de Bouard Sarrabezolles | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orph%C3%A9e-de-bouard-sarrabezolles |

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## FAQ

### What does Coen van Duiven invest in?

Coen van Duiven invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Coen van Duiven last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Coen van Duiven closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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