Laurens Groenendijk

Founding Partner at Dutch Founders Fund

2019 - Current

The Dutch Founders Fund is an early-stage VC that primarily invests in marketplaces and digital platforms across Europe. 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.

Investor & Boardmember

2014

Fixico is the first independent online & mobile platform in the Netherlands where car and fleet-owners can quickly obtain, compare and select deals for cosmetic car repair. Fixico is working with 400+ high quality repair shops that place bids through a closed bidding system. Fixico helps car owners to get price transparency and access to all relevant repair shop information such as the different service levels, repair techniques, warranty and consumer reviews. By utilising repair shop workload in an innovative manner Fixico enables their users to save significant amounts of time and cost. Fixico is available for iPhone, Android and via www.fixico.nl. App of the week | Volkskrant, AD & Quote Magazine Start-up of the week | Telegraaf, Elsevier & NRC Finalist start-up of the year 2013 | Ace Connect Nominated best Dutch app & best new app 2013 | iPhoneclub Top 10 “game changing” apps | Emerce 2014 Audience favorite | Accenture Innovation Awards 2014 Sprout Challenger Top 50 most innovative companies 2014 | Sprout Top 3 Google Playstore ‘Best Transportation Apps’ Runner-up Starters Award | LOEY Awards 2015

Founding investor

2021

Investor & Boardmember

2017

Old vintage items remain in homes for generations gathering dust or hiding away in cupboards, drawers, garages and lofts. These items either had a use for their owner in the past, or are inherited old collectibles. Existing methods of selling vintage items can take a long time, a lot of effort and can incur fees and commission. Vintage Cash Cow is the ONLY simple, fast and fair way to cash in from all of the things we buy, in one place, from the comfort of their own home. + Simple process. All items bought in one transaction. No stress. + Fast turnaround. Guaranteed 3 days or less once we receive the items. + Fair and no obligation. We never charge our customers for anything. Ever. Peace of mind. Free from all the barriers people encounter with eBay, Gumtree, private selling and other alternatives. Vintage Cash Cow are to vintage items what Music Magpie are to old CD’s, mobiles and electronics. We exist to bring space, calm and cash to our customers. How it works: 1. Users sign up for a free decluttering guide and pre-paid postage labels. We post these out to them. 2. They find a box, pack their items up and then post it or arrange a Parcel Force collection. 3. We make a no obligation offer, sent by email & SMS. 4. If they choose not to accept our offer, we send their parcel back free of charge. 5. When the offer is accepted we make the payment same day. No commissions, no fees, no charges.

Private Investor

2017

For the first time in modern history, the 13 trillion dollar financial services industry is being modernized. Blockchain is at the forefront of this revolution. Our software is helping millions across the globe - from single individuals to the largest institutions. We have raised over 30M in capital from top tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wicklow Capital, and Sir Richard Branson.

Private Investor

2019

Private Investor

2017

Private Investor

2017

Didi Chuxing is the world’s largest comprehensive one-stop mobile transportation platform. The company offers a full range of mobile tech-based mobility options for close to 300 million users across over 400 Chinese cities, including taxi hailing, private car hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As many as 16 million rides are completed on Didi’s platform on a daily basis in Q2 2016. A total of 1.43 billion rides were completed on DiDi’s platform in 2015, making DiDi the world’s second largest online transaction platform next only to Taobao. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to work with communities and partners to solve China’s transportation, environmental challenges and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resources allocation. By continuously improving the user experience and creating social values, we strive to build an open, efficient, collaborative, and sustainable transportation ecosystem. In 2016, Didi was included in Fortune’s “Change the World” list; and named one of the World’s 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review. In 2015, DiDi was announced as a Davos Global Growth Company.

Private Investor

2018

Industrious is a premium workplace platform, blending five-star service and stunning design to provide an unparalleled workplace experience for established professionals. Businesses need great work environments in order to grow and succeed but very few are actually able to execute on this core necessity due to complicated, opaque and expensive processes. With more than 20 locations across the country, built on the principle of providing people the hospitality and design in the place they least expect it, the Industrious team is driven by making people excited and proud to go to work. Industrious members come from diverse industries including creative agencies, growing start-ups, and professional services firms in real estate, finance and legal. As the premier coworking platform that caters to SMBs and the Fortune 500, outsourcing workplace solutions to Industrious gives companies a better, more flexible office space than they can create on their own.

Private Investor

2018