# Herman Kienhuis

> Herman Kienhuis is a seed investor at Curiosity VC backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Curiosity VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curiosity-vc)
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermankienhuis/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kienhuis
- Website: https://rivervp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hermankienhuis

Herman Kienhuis is a seed investor at Curiosity VC in Amsterdam focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $439k–$3.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $797k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$9.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 13% |
| SaaS | 7 | 11% |
| Internet | 7 | 11% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 34% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 11% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Angel | 4 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 16 | 26% |
| Finland | 7 | 11% |
| Denmark | 3 | 5% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| Altura Platform | Altura Platform helps you to identify opportunities, collaborate on writing your bid and analyse data on your performance. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| 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 | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| BeCause | Sustainability is a massive, growing issue for companies to manage; holding them back and costing them fortunes. BeCause is the AI-powered hub that makes sustainability management flow simpler, swifter and syngergistically for travel and tourism companies - enabling the industry to make a positive impact on people, planet and profit. | $600K | Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| 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 | $838.4K | Pre-Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Epicbrief | Epicbrief joins hundreds of sales representatives on a quest to improve the significance and value of human work in sales. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| Dreamdata | Dreamdata offers a B2B activation and attribution platform that unifies go-to-market data into a coherent customer journey map. It consolidates behavioral site tracking, CRM, ad platforms, and intent sources to create an event-based, account-centric data model. From this foundation, it enables audience activation, AI-driven signal detection, andattribution of marketing efforts to revenue outcomes. Dreamdata also incorporates its proprietary IP-to-company resolution engine to improve company identification within web traffic. | $7.3M | Series A | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Strise | Strise spearheads the AML Intelligence revolution, marking a shift where AML teams are not just a cost but vital enablers for organisations. They're battling financial crime with AI, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness. | $3.3M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Fledger | Fledgerr develops cutting-edge equity management solution. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [River Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/river-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Maki.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maki-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Great Stuff Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-stuff-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Curiosity VC

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Curiosity is a VC firm based in Amsterdam. We support European founders in building AI software companies to serve and change the world.

5 contacts available at Curiosity VC.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Herman Kienhuis invest in?

Herman Kienhuis invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 61 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 Herman Kienhuis's check size?

Herman Kienhuis typically joins rounds of $439k–$3.3M at Seed, $797k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$9.1M 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 Herman Kienhuis participates in.

### When did Herman Kienhuis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Herman Kienhuis closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 61 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?

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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