Constance Scholten

Firestarter

2023 - Current

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Venture Partner

2021

Investor

2018 - 2021

Slingshot Ventures is a B2C venture capital fund. We back ambitious, talented and charismatic entrepreneurs and actively help them accelerate their businesses with our knowledge, experience and international network of people and companies. By providing smart growth capital we help these start- and scale-ups catapult their business to the next level. Our investment focus is primarily on fast growing ventures that operate B2C business models. Companies we are interested in build online technology into the core of their products/services and/or sales models, allowing them to scale more rapidly and efficiently. Entrepreneurship is in our DNA. Slingshot Ventures is the largest Dutch venture fund solely backed by successful entrepreneurs while our team consist of proven entrepreneurs and venture builders. This allows us to think and act like entrepreneurs and build great companies, that are more competitive, more profitable and more valuable than when we started our joint journey. We currently manage a portfolio of multiple investments, all with a base in the Netherlands and all with a cross-border ambition. Our portfolio includes companies such as VanMoof, Wonderkind, Boldking, Tiqets, Ace&Tate, Versa, Temper, Naduvi, STOX, Wundermart, and more.

Co-Founder & Board Member

2017

EarthToday is a company that accelerates nature protection. Meter x meter. A revolutionary business model to collectively protect 50% of the planet. With every m² you protect, you invest in Earth, biodiversity, clean air and fresh water. For every m² you protect, the Union of Nature brings a new m² under protection. This is how we scale to protect 50% of the planet by 2050.

CEO & Founder (acquired by Appical)

2015 - 2017

The world's smallest social network as used in 157 countries. It's the place to post photos and videos for just 15 of your closest friends. Responses to your posts are allways one-on-one -- so friends can reply like nobody's watching. We've stripped social media back to the basics. No clutter. No unnecessary extras. No vague acquaintances. Just a fun, private place to connect and share with those closest to you. Camarilla has a highly dedicated and motivated team in New York and Amsterdam.

Commercial Director a.i.

2014 - 2015

TravelBird founded in 2010 and the fastest growing holiday website in Europe. An online travel agency with offers tailored to the consumer’s needs which change daily. By following trending topics on Google Trends, national news and having local connections to each country, we know exactly what our customers want. This kind of expertise and attention to detail has resulted over 5 million customers, 600+ employees and a selection of offers that change daily on our websites, www.travelbird.com. Currently, we are active in more than twenty European countries. However, we are not yet satisfied; by the end of 2014 we are expecting to have expanded to five times this size. I focus on strategic partnerships where relevant.

Partner

2010 - 2015

Setting up and managing strategic relationships and alliances with main focus on IT, Internet, mobile and social media. We leverage each others' expertise, professionals, technologies and other intellectual property to expand capacities for bringing to market new businesses and products. I focus on a strategic business plan through equity financing, acquisition/divestiture of technologies, team development, plus the establishment of strategic partnerships.

Tech Talent

2007 - 2010

Parking IT is an established head-hunting company, whose focus is the Dutch IT market. We always have a number of roles for permanent candidates in the following markets: Ruby on Rails, Java EE, .NET, PHP, Python, Perl, EAI/SOA/Middleware, Business Consultancy, Project management. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you’re interested in discussing a new position or would like to acquire my services in order to help build and grow your team. Personal Specialties: dynamic languages, agile webdevelopment

International Sales Executive

2007 - 2007

Responsible for international online media sales at eBuddy.com, especially DACH & France. eBuddy created the world’s first independent web browser-based IM service in 2003 and extended the service to mobile in June 2007. eBuddy’s patent-pending technology enables more than 30 million unique monthly visitors with AIM, Facebook, Gtalk, ICQ, MySpace, MSN Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! IM accounts to chat free of charge in one web interface without having to download or install any application.