# Marcel van der Heijden

> Marcel van der Heijden is a seed investor at Fortino Capital backing Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fortino Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortinocapital)
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marceljvanderheijden/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Marcel_v_d_H
- Website: https://www.fortinocapital.com/

Marcel van der Heijden is a seed investor at Fortino Capital in Amsterdam focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Marcel van der Heijden joined Fortino Capital in May 2021 as Partner co-leading its Venture II fund and Dutch operations. Marcel was the first non-founding partner at Speedinvest where he spent the 6 years in the San Francisco office supporting the portfolio’s US expansion efforts, and then built Speedinvest’s enterprise tech investment team,including members in London and Berlin, while based out of Vienna. Marcel holds a MSc. Physics from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from Leiden University. Marcel is fluent in English and Dutch.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 38% |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 23% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 5 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 5 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 23% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| Belgium | 1 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| D2X Group | D2X is launching the first regulated crypto derivatives exchange operational 7-days-a-week. Its initial product listing features cash-settled BTC and ETH futures and options. The exchange operates from the Netherlands under an MTF licence (MiFID II). Backed by strategic investors including Point72, Flow Traders, and GSR, D2X aims to facilitate theinstitutional adoption of the asset class. | $10M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Vaultspeed | Vaultspeed is a SaaS company specialized in data warehouse automation solutions. | $16.4M | Series A | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Getvisibility | Getvisibility operates as an AI Security Company. Getvisibility provides an enterprise security product that helps organisations manage the 80% of their data that is unstructured, i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, versus the other 20% being data in databases. | $10.9M | Series A | Mar 11, 2022 |  |
| D2X Group | D2X is launching the first regulated crypto derivatives exchange operational 7-days-a-week. Its initial product listing features cash-settled BTC and ETH futures and options. The exchange operates from the Netherlands under an MTF licence (MiFID II). Backed by strategic investors including Point72, Flow Traders, and GSR, D2X aims to facilitate theinstitutional adoption of the asset class. | $5.6M | Seed | Jan 04, 2022 |  |
| Reveall | Reveall is a Customer Insights Platform that helps businesses better understand their customers by making it easier to gather, organize and share learnings from customer research and feedback. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Kaizo | Kaizo is a conversational intelligence platform that supports businesses extracting the ROI and business value out of customer facing conversations. With it's VoC and QA products offered for multiple CRM systems like Salesforce, Zendesk, Genesys and more, Kaizo transforms business data into business insights and defines guardrails for a modernagentic focused workforce. | $4M | Seed | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| ReaQta | ReaQta is Europe’s top-tiered AI Endpoint Security Platform, built by an elite group of cyber security experts and AI/ML researchers with extensive backgrounds in government intelligence operations. Focused on building the best user experience for endpoint security, ReaQta is the most elegant, powerful and easy-to-use platform that allowsorganizations to eliminate the most advanced threats in the fastest way possible. As experts in AI and behavioral analysis, ReaQta’s proprietary dual-AI engines provide organizations across all industries with complete and fully customised endpoint security, minus all the complexity. Security teams can now do more, with less. |  | Series A | May 19, 2021 |  |
| Vaultspeed | Vaultspeed is a SaaS company specialized in data warehouse automation solutions. | $4.3M | Series A | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| SOC.OS | Imagine a security analyst on your team who could analyse every alert generated by your on-premise and cloud security tools, and escalate the most important ones for further review. SOC.OS is a SaaS-based security alert investigation and triage tool, fundamentally reimagining how security operations are conducted today. Designed and developed withthe needs of a stretched IT security team at its core, it consistently reduces alert triage volumes by 90% to maximise analyst productivity. Spun out from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence in 2020, SOC.OS is already helping countless global organisations to optimise their security operations and improve threat detection. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |
| Deep Render | Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards | $2M | Seed | May 07, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alpha Intelligence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-intelligence-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tioga Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tioga-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BNP Paribas Fortis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnp-paribas-fortis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dutchfoundersfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fortino Capital

VC Fund · Zaventem, Belgium

Fortino Capital will provide expansion capital and expertise, to exceptional entrepreneurs and companies in Europe and the USA, for building growth enabling SAAS based software platforms, mainly designed for SMEs and for building brands and go-to-market strategies, for media and high-end product manufacturing companies. Additionally, Fortino willinvest in companies that have the ambition to reinvent their business model through applying best-in-class management practices and state-of-the-art technologies.

5 contacts available at Fortino Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Baudouin Jolly | Associate Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baudouin-jolly |
| Duco Sickinghe | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duco-sickinghe |
| Filip Van Innis | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/filip-van-innis |
| Jeroen Van Godtsenhoven | Operating Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeroen-van-godtsenhoven |
| Marcel van der Heijden | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcel-van-der-heijden |

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## FAQ

### What does Marcel van der Heijden invest in?

Marcel van der Heijden invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Marcel van der Heijden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marcel van der Heijden closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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