GEC Capital Scaling Up Community Event on 3 November
How do you organize for growth? On Friday 3 November, we will organize an exclusive event about scaling up tech companies. We personally invited 75 people from the tech ecosystem including our GEC...
View ArticleDutch startups raise slightly less investment in third quarter – market...
Dutch startups raised at least €420 million in venture capital in the third quarter of 2023. Although this represents a slight decrease from the second quarter (€525 million) and the third quarter in...
View ArticleYtsen van der Meer starts as Venture Partner at Golden Egg Check Capital
Ytsen van der Meer starts effective immediately as Venture Partner at Golden Egg Check. This appointment is in addition to his current position as Investment Manager at NOM, where he is responsible for...
View ArticleFirst GEC Capital community event: we had a blast!
Last Friday we hosted our very first Golden Egg Check Capital community event. We had a blast, hopefully you did too! Our thanks goes out to all the founders, investors, operators, speakers and...
View ArticleGolden Egg Check at Slush 2023
Slush 2023 is a wrap! Ytsen and Thomas joined the Dutch delegation of startups and investors in cold, snowy Helsinki to meet other VCs, founders and potential LPs for our next fund. We enjoyed all the...
View ArticleNabeschouwing AFAS Young Business Award (YBA)
Gisteren was Thomas bij De Ondernemer Live in de studio om de AFAS Young Business Award na te beschouwen samen met Marleen Evertsz. Drone-bedrijf Avy werd afgelopen zondag als winnaar gekozen door de...
View ArticleGEC co-organizes DNNL Founders & Funders Dinner
Last week, Golden Egg Check co-organized the Dutch New Narrative Lab (DNNL) Founders & Funders Dinner. The purpose of this dinner was to bring underrepresented founders and investors together. It...
View ArticleGEC Capital raises new capital and quintuples in size
Amersfoort, January 17, 2024 Golden Egg Check has announced that their venture capital fund has raised 2.5 million euros from investors. With this fund, GEC Capital I, Golden Egg Check aims to make a...
View Article€620 million invested in Dutch startups in Q4 2023
Golden Egg Check, together with Dealroom and the partners of the Quarterly Startup Report consortium, has calculated how much was invested in Dutch startups and scale-ups by 2023. The key findings are...
View ArticleGEC Capital co-invests in RUNNR.ai for the future of AI in hospitality!
We’re proud to announce that Runnr.ai has successfully secured €1 million in funding led by Arched Capital and joined by angel investors Roland Zeller (ex-GetYourGuide), Marnix van der Ploeg...
View ArticleGroei terug in investeringen in Nederlandse startups
Golden Egg Check heeft samen met Dealroom en de partners van het Quarterly Startup Report consortium becijfert hoeveel er in het eerste kwartaal in Nederlandse startup en scale-ups is geïnvesteerd. Wij...
View ArticleTwo portfolio companies are ‘B2B SaaS companies to watch in 2024’
Which companies are set to add to the B2B SaaS sector’s clout in the coming years? Investors from Peak, Frontline Ventures, CapitalT and Visionaries Club share the non-portfolio startups on their...
View ArticleGEC Capital: how we deal with risk
Investing in startups is obviously risky. With Golden Egg Check Capital we aim to mitigate these risks in a number of ways with our investment strategy. In this way we believe we can achieve a strong...
View ArticleGEC Capital invests in Haaven, together with Speedinvest, to reinvent the way...
Haaven, a startup streamlining the complex homebuilding industry, has secured €1.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Speedinvest, paving the way for expansion in Italy and The Netherlands. The...
View ArticleClimateTech startup Cawa raises €500k for transparent carbon credit...
Amsterdam, June 2024 – Cawa, an API infrastructure enabling carbon accounting and ESG platforms to sell transparent, high-quality carbon credits, has raised 500K in a new funding round. The round was...
View ArticleVC Internship at Golden Egg Check
We are hiring! At Golden Egg Check, we support entrepreneurs from the early stages. We help them to become investor-ready, secure venture capital funding, and we co-invest in them with our own...
View ArticleInvestment growth in Dutch startups not yet sustained
What’s happening?! The growth of investments in Dutch startups is not continuing. After a strong first quarter, investments in Dutch startups have declined compared to Q1. ‘Only’ €440M was invested in...
View ArticleGEC Capital raises €5M to become the most active VC fund in the Netherlands
Golden Egg Check has announced that their venture capital fund has raised 5 million euros from investors. With this fund, GEC Capital I, Golden Egg Check aims to make a total of about 35 investments in...
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