# Prime Ventures

> Prime Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing Software and E-Commerce. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/prime-ventures-vc-
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/prime_ventures
- Website: http://www.primeventures.com

Prime Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in European companies in the technology and related industries and leverages its capital, experience and network to actively guide them into global category leaders. The firm has invested in companies in the Benelux countries, United Kingdom, France, Finland and Sweden. From itsoffices in The Netherlands and the UK the independent partnership manages over EUR700 million in committed capital.(Source :

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.4M–$20M |
| Series B | $7.1M–$71M |
| Series C | $7M–$230M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 8 | 12% |
| FinTech | 7 | 10% |
| Internet | 6 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 9% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 21 | 31% |
| Series A | 16 | 24% |
| Series C | 9 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 9% |
| Seed | 4 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 12 | 18% |
| United States | 9 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 9% |
| France | 4 | 6% |
| Germany | 3 | 4% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joost Holleman | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joost-holleman |
| Ilja Bobbert | Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilja-bobbert |
| Margaret Perchik | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-perchik |
| Martijn van Heeswijk | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martijn-van-heeswijk |
| Monish Suri | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monish-suri |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diffusely | Founded in 2016, Meero aims to revolutionize the world of photography by allowing photographers to dedicate themselves to their passion. From providing revenues and market research to invoicing, post-production, and delivery, Meero takes care of all the laborious, time-consuming tasks which plague the industry. Above all, the company aims toprovide them with tools for file compatibility, CRM, marketing, and other daily needs. In addition to this, they'll have access to a series of educational masterclasses, inspiring documentaries, meetups with photographers in 35 different countries, a magazine in 2 different languages, and even a foundation supporting photography worldwide.Meero also solves a major problem in the world of photography: photo editing. Normally 60 minutes of actual shooting will take up to 4 hours of extra post-production work. The cutting-edge content enrichment technologies the company is currently developing can reduce this time to a few seconds, solving the problems of long delivery times, inconsistent photo rendering and unfair prices.Meero further gives artists the chance to work with major brands and take advantage of a whole range of solutions that simplify their work and make the production of beautiful images far easier.These innovations allow brands, and soon individual consumers, to access made-to-measure photo and video solutions around the world. Meero manages the photoshoot process from beginning to end, guaranteeing unbeatable prices, delivery times of less than 24 hours and professional photo quality.Today Meero is:- The world's leading on-demand photography platform- A suite of tools dedicated to photographers' activities; masterclasses, a magazine in four different languages, inspiring documentaries, a community of artists, and a foundation in support of photography- The leader in image-processing artificial intelligence- 60,000 photographers around the world- 800 team members of 49 different nationalities- 1 Photoshoot delivered every 25 seconds- 6 offices: Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Bangalore, Singapore | $12.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Holidu | Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany. | $52.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Zuper | Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field service, and HVAC. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $32M | Series B | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| TerraPay | TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement. | $100.5M | Series B | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Holidu | Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany. | $73.2M | Series E | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Vitesse | Vitesse is an innovative financial technology company that provides integrated treasury and payment services, specifically tailored for the insurance sector. The company offers market participants complete visibility and control over claims, facilitating real-time management and capital protection for stakeholders throughout the value chain. Byeliminating time-consuming manual claims payments and reconciliations, their platform enhances efficiency. With an integrated global payments network, Vitesse empowers claims administrators and delegated authorities to provide an exceptional customer experience in claims payments. | $25.7M | Series B | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| MyCointainer | We are a team of technologists, creatives & entrepreneurs with a very strong background in new, emerging cryptoeconomy. We also worked with international clients in the past.As the technology changes rapidly and grows in an exponential rate we believe there’s a tremendous opportunity to create products that fulfill a goal of connecting thecommunities globally. Both financial licences were obtained by MyCointainer to solidify a commitment to creating an easy, safe and transparent environment for both users and entities. | $6M | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Recharge | Recharge has revolutionised the prepaid payments industry connecting brands effortlessly with customers through their unified platform solutions. Recharge enables stored value products to be obtained anywhere, anytime via their own multi-country digital store fronts including Recharge.com and Startselect.com. Founded in 2010, they are headquarteredin Amsterdam, and have raised over $75 million across Series A and B funding rounds to date. Learn more at: company.recharge.com. | $35M | Series B | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Blueground | Blueground is a global proptech company that is reinventing the way people live with its curated network of thousands of quality, turnkey homes in sought-after neighborhoods around the globe, accessible for stays of a month or longer. Blueground’s tech-enabled platform provides a fully digitized experience with around-the-clock support and accessto daily necessities from apartment cleanings, grocery delivery, wellness offerings, and more, providing a seamless experience from end to end. Blueground is headquartered in New York City, with a portfolio of thousands of apartments in 15 cities worldwide including in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Denver, Seattle, Austin, Dubai, Istanbul, Paris, London, Vienna and Athens, with plans to expand to 50+ cities by 2025. Find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter or at www.theblueground.com. | $140M | Series C | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| Holidu | Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany. | $45M | Series D | May 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Prime Ventures invest in?

Prime Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 67 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 Prime Ventures's check size?

Prime Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$20M at Series A, $7.1M–$71M at Series B and $7M–$230M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Prime Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Prime Ventures?

Public channels for Prime Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Prime Ventures?

The team at Prime Ventures includes Joost Holleman (Partner), Ilja Bobbert (Founder & Managing Partner) and Margaret Perchik (Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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