Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
Den Haag, The Netherlands
Forward Venture Capital is a VC fund in Den Haag focused on Software and E-Commerce. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.Throughout the investment process, we collaborate with founders to gain understanding of their unique needs – defining the success of each company.We look for opportunities that have an impact on people’s lives, such as renewable energy and medical solutions, butwe're tech- and industry agnostic. With our background, we can help commercialise innovative ideas and develop seed and Series A companies. Our ticket sizes range from 50k-500k USD.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Forward Venture Capital invests in
Stages Forward Venture Capital invests in
Countries Forward Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$8.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $150k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (24%)
- E-Commerce 7 (10%)
- Financial Services 7 (10%)
- FinTech 6 (8%)
- SaaS 5 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 28 (39%)
- Series A 10 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 28 (39%)
- Sweden 5 (7%)
- Denmark 2 (3%)
- Finland 2 (3%)
- Germany 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ruud Dekker
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Vincent Wols
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quickture is an AI-powered editing tool designed for professional video editors. It integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer to automate tasks such as rough cuts, footage organization, and basic adjustments. The tool is designed to assist in streamlining workflows while allowing users to maintain control over the final edits. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / Dec 02, 2025 | ||
| Halfdays is a skiwear brand for the modern woman. The company is on a mission to make the outdoors more approachable, inclusive, and fun. | $10M / Series A / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Kadence is the world’s #1 workplace operations platform for people and spaces. Designed for modern enterprises, Kadence unifies space management, team scheduling, occupancy insights, and AI-powered coordination into one seamless platform. Organizations around the world use Kadence to lower real estate costs, increase employee engagement, and drivebetter business outcomes. Trusted by leading global companies, Kadence empowers teams to work with purpose and operate at peak performance in today’s flexible work environment. | $20M / Series A / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns. | $8M / Mar 02, 2025 | ||
| DeltaGen is an enterprise AI company transforming buyside M&A by automating 80% of manual workflows—eliminating inefficiencies and accelerating deal velocity for corporate development teams, private equity firms, and strategic acquirers. Unlike traditional AI tools that rely on manual prompting, DeltaGen’s no-prompt AI delivers highly accurate,deterministic insights with seamless integration. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2024 | ||
| Brink Commerce is a MACH Alliance certified commerce API (SaaS) for mid to large brands and retailers looking to reduce cost and complexity to increase speed of innovation and efficiency. | $5M / Private Equity / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| TO THE MARKET is an innovative platform powering the ethical and sustainable supply chain for some of the world’s largest companies. Facing intense and rising demand for operational transparency, our clients rely on our proprietary digitized vendor scoring, procurement workflows, automated reporting, and more. | $2.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 26, 2023 | ||
| Brink Commerce is a MACH Alliance certified commerce API (SaaS) for mid to large brands and retailers looking to reduce cost and complexity to increase speed of innovation and efficiency. | $2M / Oct 01, 2023 | ||
| Niricson develops an AI-based predictive analytics SaaS platform for infrastructure asset management. Its AUTOSPEX platform and DRONIC provide asset managers and civil engineers critical insights and multi-defect layer visualization for the current condition of their assets. | $7.5M / Series A / Aug 02, 2023 | ||
| Uniify assists financial institutions in quickly, easily, and securely onboarding new customers. The objective is to manage all essential sources of financial data in a single, integrated system that assures compliance while accessing data and onboarding consumers. | $3.3M / Seed / Feb 06, 2023 | ||
| See all 71 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Forward Venture Capital invest in?
Forward Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Forward Venture Capital's check size?
Forward Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $850k–$8.5M at Seed, $150k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $1.6M–$14M 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 Forward Venture Capital participates in.
How do I contact Forward Venture Capital?
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Who are the partners at Forward Venture Capital?
The team at Forward Venture Capital includes Ruud Dekker (Partner) and Vincent Wols (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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