# Curiosity VC

> Curiosity VC is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curiosityvc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/curiosityvc
- Website: https://www.curiosityvc.com/

Curiosity VC is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Curiosity is a VC firm based in Amsterdam. We support European founders in building AI software companies to serve and change the world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $793k–$5.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $797k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $7.3M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 37% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 15% |
| B2B | 3 | 7% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 32% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 8 | 20% |
| Finland | 3 | 7% |
| Sweden | 2 | 5% |
| Denmark | 2 | 5% |
| Portugal | 2 | 5% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aik Deveneijns | LP and Advisor | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aik-deveneijns |
| Elliot Schouten | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elliot-schouten-352e |
| Herman Kienhuis | Managing Partner | 61 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herman-kienhuis |
| Lisa Brouwer | Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-brouwer-7829 |
| Loïc Struyvelt | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lo%C3%AFc-struyvelt |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| display.dev | display.dev lets you publish HTML or Markdown artifacts from any AI agent to a permanent, private URL secured by your company SSO. Share with unlimited viewers, render charts and layouts faithfully, collaborate with inline comments, and track activity with versions and audit logs.Use a CLI, MCP, or the web app to post files, collect inlinecomments, and have your agent republish against the artifact ID and base version. Switch AI agents anytime without breaking links – the home for your work stays put. | $537.6K | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Dawnguard | Dawnguard develops an AI-native cybersecurity platform that helps organizations design, deploy, and manage secure cloud architectures throughout the cloud lifecycle. The platform enables engineering and security teams to create cloud infrastructure designs, validate them against security and compliance requirements, generate Infrastructure as Code(IaC), and continuously monitor deployed environments for security risks and configuration drift. It supports major cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, while providing visualization of cloud resources, relationships, and architecture changes. Dawnguard also uses AI to identify security issues, misconfigurations, and optimization opportunities, allowing teams to address potential risks before and after deployment. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Validfor | Validfor is an AI-Native agentic digital validation platform designed specifically to address compliance issues in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| XFA | XFA secures devices by verifying security status at login via browser extension and apps. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| Lynk | Lynk is a software development firm offering AI based contract development solutions for management. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Orq.ai | Orq.ai enables companies to integrate and operate their products using the power of Large Language Models through a single collaboration platform. The platform centralizes prompt management, streamlined experimentation, feedback collection, and real-time insight into performance and costs. It's compatible with all major Large Language Modelproviders, ensuring transparency and scalability in LLM Ops, ultimately leading to shorter customer release cycles and reduced costs for both experiments and production environments.For more information, please visit https://orq.ai | $5.8M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Orq.ai | Orq.ai enables companies to integrate and operate their products using the power of Large Language Models through a single collaboration platform. The platform centralizes prompt management, streamlined experimentation, feedback collection, and real-time insight into performance and costs. It's compatible with all major Large Language Modelproviders, ensuring transparency and scalability in LLM Ops, ultimately leading to shorter customer release cycles and reduced costs for both experiments and production environments.For more information, please visit https://orq.ai | $5.8M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Altura Platform | Altura Platform helps you to identify opportunities, collaborate on writing your bid and analyse data on your performance. | $9.1M | Series A | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Telescope | Telescope gives real estate companies a way to comprehend, control, and lessen climate-related dangers. By converting complicated climate data into useful insights, Telescope's technology helps property owners preserve asset values, obtain green financing, and comply with legal obligations. | $4M | Seed | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Onesurance | Onesurance provides AI-driven solutions tailored for the insurance sector. The Onesurance AI Engine continuously analyzes data to offer real-time insights, helping insurers, brokers, and intermediaries make smarter decisions. The company also offers Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to help businesses harness the power of AI with minimal risk. Theirsuite of flexible personal insurance products includes coverage for home, contents, landlords, and cars. |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Curiosity VC invest in?

Curiosity VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 41 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 Curiosity VC's check size?

Curiosity VC typically joins rounds of $793k–$5.8M at Seed, $797k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $7.3M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Curiosity VC participates in.

### How do I contact Curiosity VC?

Public channels for Curiosity VC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Curiosity VC?

The team at Curiosity VC includes Aik Deveneijns (LP and Advisor), Elliot Schouten (Associate) and Herman Kienhuis (Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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