# Maurice Beckand Verwee

> Maurice Beckand Verwee is a seed investor at River Venture Partners backing Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [River Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/river-venture-partners)
- Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricebv/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mauricebv
- Website: https://www.curiosityvc.com

Maurice Beckand Verwee is a seed investor at River Venture Partners in Rotterdam focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Maurice Beckand Verwee - Managing Partner @ Curiosity VC

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $97k–$5.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $179k–$878k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 40% |
| Compliance | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 60% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 10% |

## 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 |  |
| Naq | You want to keep your small business safe and protected but actually doing so can be a big burden for small businesses. We understand that you need to focus on growing your business, not on protecting it and conforming to regulation like GDPR. That is why we started Naq: to give you an all-in-one solution to help defend your business.The Naqsolution is designed around four key areas of cyber security; each one critical in helping to protect your business: - Monitoring: Detecting and preventing vulnerabilities before they can be used against you- Training: Enabling your staff to protect themselves and your organisation- Documentation: Keeping you on top of legal and regulatory requirements- Emergency Response: One-on-one support for when your organisation experiences a cyber attack | $7.1M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Onesurance | Onesurance provides AI-driven solutions tailored for the insurance sector. The Onesurance AI Engine continuously analyzes data to offer real-time insights, helping insurers, brokers, and intermediaries make smarter decisions. The company also offers Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to help businesses harness the power of AI with minimal risk. Theirsuite of flexible personal insurance products includes coverage for home, contents, landlords, and cars. |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2024 |  |
| AMLYZE | Achieving compliance can be complicated and challenging, but it does not have to. AMLYZE offer fully integrated Transaction Monitoring, Risk Assessment & Case Management solutions making theses processes much easier and smoother for you. | $2.6M | Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Moonlit.ai | Moonlit is a legal knowledge platform designed to facilitate cross-border legal research and monitoring across the European Union. It offers users access to a wide range of legal documents, automated translations, and AI-driven insights to streamline the research process. |  |  | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| Moonlit.ai | Moonlit is a legal knowledge platform designed to facilitate cross-border legal research and monitoring across the European Union. It offers users access to a wide range of legal documents, automated translations, and AI-driven insights to streamline the research process. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| Orquesta | Orquesta 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 LanguageModel providers, 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://orquesta.cloud. | $878K | Pre-Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Localie | A platform for travelers to find verified locals who can show around and help with all aspects of a trip. | $179.2K | Pre-Seed | Jan 04, 2023 |  |
| Localie | A platform for travelers to find verified locals who can show around and help with all aspects of a trip. | $97K | Seed | Aug 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Golden Egg Check Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-egg-check-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coinvest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinvest-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Practica Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/practica-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spacetime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spacetime-f35f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Advanzia Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanzia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Automate Health](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/automate-health) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About River Venture Partners

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

River Venture Partners is an angel syndicate that focuses on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in digital media, marketing, e-commerce, entreprise and education technology.

2 contacts available at River Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Herman Kienhuis | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herman-kienhuis |
| Maurice Beckand Verwee | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maurice-beckand-verwee |

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## FAQ

### What does Maurice Beckand Verwee invest in?

Maurice Beckand Verwee invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Compliance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Maurice Beckand Verwee's check size?

Maurice Beckand Verwee typically joins rounds of $97k–$5.8M at Seed and $179k–$878k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Maurice Beckand Verwee participates in.

### When did Maurice Beckand Verwee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maurice Beckand Verwee closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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