# Herman Hintzen

> Herman Hintzen is a seed investor at henQ (Amsterdam) backing SaaS, Energy and Payments. See 4 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: 4
- Last investment: Aug 2017
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanhintzen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/twitherman

Herman Hintzen is a seed investor at henQ in Amsterdam focused on SaaS and Energy. Herman Hintzen (1966) started his first company Arpa Systems in 1996, which became the market leading software developer for the construction industry in the Netherlands. After selling his shares, Herman decided to focus on his passion: helping entrepreneurs making their dreams come true. So in 2004, together with Coen van Duiven, he founded theGreat Idea Factory, an organization aimed at helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to the market. In the same year, Herman and Coen founded henQ - Committed Capital, which focuses on the phase from company to market. Since 2010, Herman is a mentor at early-stage investment fund Seedcamp.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Energy | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |
| Shipping | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sendcloud | SendCloud is an all-in-one shipping platform that connects online retailers to shipping carriers to save them time and money.The platform is easy to implement and takes about five minutes of the webshops time. After integrating their module the webshop can connect with several shipping carriers.SendCloud was founded in 2012 and is based inEindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands. | $5.3M | Series A | Aug 29, 2017 |  |
| Energyworx | Energyworx is a software company. It designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and intelligence cloud service disrupting the global energy and utilities market. They help uncover the hidden the value of data by correlating and analyzing the data with a diversity of other datasources. This helps its users to balance and optimize the grid; and reduce losses during transmission and distribution.The company enables organizations to make business decisions with real time data insights. They fuel best of breed products and services in the energy industry. The platform offers other services such as meter data management, social energy app, energy balancing for smart grids, and data hub.Energyworx was founded by Edwin Poot in 2012 and is headquartered in Houten, Utrecht. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Energyworx | Energyworx is a software company. It designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and intelligence cloud service disrupting the global energy and utilities market. They help uncover the hidden the value of data by correlating and analyzing the data with a diversity of other datasources. This helps its users to balance and optimize the grid; and reduce losses during transmission and distribution.The company enables organizations to make business decisions with real time data insights. They fuel best of breed products and services in the energy industry. The platform offers other services such as meter data management, social energy app, energy balancing for smart grids, and data hub.Energyworx was founded by Edwin Poot in 2012 and is headquartered in Houten, Utrecht. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 25, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $1M | Seed | Aug 21, 2014 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BOM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brabantse-ontwikkelings-maatschappij-bom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SET Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/set-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TIIN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiin-capital) — 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 Herman Hintzen invest in?

Herman Hintzen invests primarily in SaaS, Energy and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Herman Hintzen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Herman Hintzen closed in Aug 2017. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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