# Patrick Kerssemakers

> Patrick Kerssemakers is a seed investor at DFF Ventures (Utrecht) backing Training and Education. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dutchfoundersfund)
- Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerssemakers
- Website: https://x.com/pkerssemakers
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pkerssemakers

Patrick Kerssemakers is a seed investor at DFF Ventures in Utrecht focused on Training and Education. Patrick Kerssemakers is based out of Amsterdam, North Holland and is the Founding Partner of DFF Ventures. Patrick previously worked at Only for Men as a Member Of The Board Of Advisors. Patrick Kerssemakers attended the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. Patrick Kerssemakers has received the award for Best e-commerce store 2016.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Training | 2 | 40% |
| Education | 2 | 40% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 40% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Winc Academy | Winc Academy is an international education platform that offers high quality courses with personal guidance. Learners acquire future skills and boost their careers in coding, tech, and data. Winc Academy increases accessibility to quality education through asynchronous online education with scalable personal mentoring. B2C, B2B and B2G. | $3M | Seed | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Veylinx | Veylinx is the most realistic behavioral insights platform to answer with confidence major business questions surrounding new products and services during all stages of the development cycle. Veylinx obtains behavioral consumer insights using a Nobel prize-winning approach in which consumers have real skin-in-the-game to reliably measure demand.This is a major shift from current market research practices that still rely on what consumers hypothetically claim they will buy. Veylinx has its root as an academic project at the University of Amsterdam, where Founder and CEO Anouar El Haji, obtained his PhD in Marketing. Since December 2015 Veylinx has been disrupting the world of market research supporting mostly Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever to guide them on major decisions on product developments and initiatives. Besides the fact that Veylinx continues to be applied by academic researchers, Veylinx won a number of industry awards among which the IIeX Insights Innovation Award for its paradigm-shifting approach. | $2M | Seed | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Naduvi | Naduvi is an online platform that offers a wide range of interior design products of various brands to decor residential projects. | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Polarsteps | Polarsteps is the new way to plan, track and remember your trips. They help you to plan, track and share your journeys in an easy and beautiful way, turning your travel moments into lifetime memories. The Polarsteps app automatically keeps track of your route while you are on the move. Once connected to the internet, the app seamlessly transferstravel routes, key locations and photos to your Polarsteps page, where your route is plotted on a colorful world map that can be shared with close friends and family. | $955K | Seed | Aug 02, 2017 |  |
| Springest | Springest helps people grow, by making it easy to find learning possibilites. This includes education programmes, training courses, e-learning, events, articles, books, (assessment) tests and experts.The site includes reviews and recommends the best learning options based on your social profile and custom constraints like region, budget,learning style, etc.Springest uses a performance based model for Learning & Development providers. Placing products (i.e. courses or other) is always free of charge. Buying sales (CPS), leads (CPA/CPL), clicks (CPC) or advertising (CPM) is optional. Use the Springest API to create or enhance your own website with relevant learning offerings. For bloggers we have Wordpress and Drupal plugins, as well as code examples and Javascript widgets to make it easy to help your visitors learn and grow as well! | $902K | Angel | Jan 15, 2012 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dutchfoundersfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [River Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/river-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rubio Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rubio-impact-ventures-nl) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Slingshot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slingshot-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Vivid Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vivid-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About DFF Ventures

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

DFF is an early-stage VC that primarily invests in marketplaces and other network-effects-driven propositions all over EU. Our fund is founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. We look beyond spreadsheets and resolve early-stage growth pains with lightning speed. Ready to scale together? From Amsterdam, to the world.

3 contacts available at DFF Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hidde Hoogcarspel | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hidde-hoogcarspel-d6aa |
| Laurens Groenendijk | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurens-groenendijk |
| Patrick Kerssemakers | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-kerssemakers |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Kerssemakers invest in?

Patrick Kerssemakers invests primarily in Training, Education and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 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 Patrick Kerssemakers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Kerssemakers closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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