# Shamrock Ventures

> Shamrock Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Sustainability. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shamrockventures/
- Website: https://shamrockventures.nl/

Shamrock Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Software and Sustainability. Shamrock Ventures invests in tech companies building a better future.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 24% |
| Sustainability | 3 | 14% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 10% |
| SaaS | 1 | 5% |
| Rental | 1 | 5% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 13 | 62% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alef Arendsen | Founding Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alef-arendsen |
| Bruce Hathaway | Partner, CFO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-hathaway |
| Roland Sars | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roland-sars |
| Tommy Hurley | Founder & managing partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tommy-hurley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BIYU | BIYU offers rental equipment services for gardening, party, cleaning, and the kitchen. | $978.3K | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Cawa | Cawa helps companies take traceable climate action. Our API infrastructure gives your company access to carefully selected, high-integrity climate projects. Cawa makes it possible for everyone to trace funding and impact of their climate contributions. | $536.9K | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Pickler | CO2-eq footprints for packaging. Stop talking about sustainable packaging without evidence. Calculate the CO2-eq of your packaging with ease and win over customers. | $548.2K | Seed | Jan 12, 2024 |  |
| Pickler | CO2-eq footprints for packaging. Stop talking about sustainable packaging without evidence. Calculate the CO2-eq of your packaging with ease and win over customers. | $549K | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2024 |  |
| Tap Electric | Charging your car is not a uniform, quality experience. Information is scarce and often incomplete; availability is not optimized; and access may require different means and is often unnecessarily expensive. All the plans we have for scale and stabilizing the grid with EV, cannot be built reliably on such a UX.Tap's driver app enablesuniform information and payments across a huge network of chargers. Every charger in the app provides info about dynamic tariffs, AI-powered insights about availability and communication channels to share chargers efficiently.To help owners bring this driver experience to their charger network, Tap lets them connect their charger to the Tap Electric Operator Platform, at no cost - thanks to our fully automated product. This business model increases simplicity and profitability for owners. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Meteory | Meteory is a forward-thinking SaaS company that uses satellite data to monitor vital environmental changes.Meteory's software employs powerful data analytics and machine learning algorithms to assist businesses and organizations in better understanding their environmental effect and identifying areas for improvement. | $617.3K | Pre-Seed | Jul 13, 2023 |  |
| FruitPunch AI | Founded by Buster Franken and Sako Arts, FruitPunch AI is a platform for teaching applied AI through crowdsourced AI challenges to find solutions to real-world problems. To leverage its global community of AI for Good engineers, FruitPunch AI trains, upskills and assesses AI talent at scale and helps its members find meaningful work atorganizations matched by the platform. | $534.7K | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Seenons | Waste platform for the circular economy | $11M |  | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Seenons | Waste platform for the circular economy | $10.9M | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Bringly | Bringly is a logtech company that provides a sustainable and Same-Day delivery service for omnichannel retailers and e-commerce. Our sustainable shipping network of bicycle couriers and electric vehicles (EVs) makes it possible to deliver quickly, locally and completely CO2-neutral. We do this within one hour or the same evening. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Loyal VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loyal-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Shamrock Ventures invest in?

Shamrock Ventures invests primarily in Software, Sustainability and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Shamrock Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Shamrock Ventures?

The team at Shamrock Ventures includes Alef Arendsen (Founding Partner), Bruce Hathaway (Partner, CFO) and Roland Sars (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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