# Great Stuff Ventures

> Great Stuff Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing SaaS and E-Commerce. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/great-stuff-ventures/
- Website: http://greatstuffventures.com

Great Stuff Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on SaaS and E-Commerce. We founded Great Stuff Ventures in 2018 with the goal to find and be inspired by the greatest technology entrepreneurs of the next decade and beyond. We are a group of entrepreneurs and industry veterans investing their own capital in great people doing great stuff. For the daring builders of tomorrow. For the advocates of the can-do.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $274k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 14% |
| Energy Management | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 64% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 4 | 29% |
| Germany | 2 | 14% |
| Greece | 1 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arne Schoenmakers | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arne-schoenmakers-1620 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AAZZUR | AAZZUR is a Fintech innovation that is changing banking. 10 years ago financial institutions built most of their own infrastructure, products, and services themselves. The new paradigm is to connect services. This is more flexible, cheaper, and more powerful. AAZZUR is a layer above the banks and fintech to facilitate the exchange of data,messages, and transactions. This is the promise of open banking. AAZZUR is an open banking platform that will revolutionize how data is monetized, customers are serviced, and how banks and fintech can be built. It’s a marketplace to provide the next wave of financial services. | $2.7M | Seed | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Circadian Technologies GmbH | Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Vendora | Classified advertising in Greece |  |  | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Greenspark | Greenspark incentivises and inspires companies to take action on environmental and social issues around the world.At a time when consumer and employee demand for action on climate change and social injustice is at an all-time high, we're giving businesses the tools they need to do something about it.Our Impact-as-a-Service Platform allowscompanies to create positive impact at key business touchpoints, track it in an easily digestible way, and then communicate it effectively with their customer base, site visitors and key stakeholders.The results are great for the planet, great for their brand image, and great for their bottom line. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Wegaw | We process remote sensing satellite data with artificial intelligence to monitor renewable energy sources like water & snow. Through these datasets we improve our clients energy forecasting capabilities helping them increase the energy production by 10% and their energy trading prices by 5% | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Sprinque | Sprinque offers a B2B checkout platform for merchants and marketplaces. Its platform enables merchants and marketplaces to offer pay-by-invoice with net payment terms to online buyers without adding risk or increasing operational overhead. Juan Espinosa, Manoj Tutika, and Mark Holleman founded the Amsterdam-based company in 2021. | $2M | Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Vendora | Classified advertising in Greece |  | Series A | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Vormats | SaaS, Video Editing Software |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Vormats | SaaS, Video Editing Software |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Unless | Unless improves the understanding between man and machine, offering services that adapt digital communication to match the predicted context of individual people. Its real-time personalization platform lets you tailor your website messaging to each unique visitor. |  | Seed | Oct 26, 2019 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Great Stuff Ventures invest in?

Great Stuff Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, E-Commerce and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 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 Great Stuff Ventures's check size?

Great Stuff Ventures typically joins rounds of $274k–$2.7M 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 Great Stuff Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Great Stuff Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Great Stuff Ventures?

The team at Great Stuff Ventures includes Arne Schoenmakers (Investment Partner). 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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