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Marijn Settels

Senior Investment Manager at StartGreen Capital

Amsterdam, North Holland

Overview 

Marijn Settels is a Climate Tech investor at StartGreen Capital in Amsterdam, with a background in Corporate Finance and Venture Capital. Notable career highlights include serving as a Senior Investment Manager at both StartGreen Capital and Antler, where he focused on disruptive technologies and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).

Work Experience 

  • Senior Investment Manager

    2023 - Current

    Responsible for portfolio management of PDENH, StartGreen Capital’s climate tech VC fund, and supporting with the fundraise of the new climate tech VC fund. PDENH is a €85m fund with a portfolio of 28 ventures active in the energy transition, circular economy and sustainable mobility.

  • Senior Investment Manager

    2023 - 2023

  • Investment Manager

    2021 - 2023

    Antler is a global early stage VC investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. With offices in 25 cities, Antler manages over $500 AuM, with investments in 700+ portfolio companies across technology sectors. At Antler Netherlands, I helped manage the €20m fund and was responsible for (pre-)seed investments and portfolio management (portfolio of >45 ventures).

  • Senior Consultant - Disruptive M&A | Fast Ventures

    2019 - 2021

    Supporting tech startups with Series A/B fund raising and M&A advisory. Covering the full cycle from data driven target search to transaction execution focused on disruptive technologies in emerging ecosystems such as fintech, cleantech, healthtech, and mobility

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  • Investment Banking Associate

    2019 - 2019

    Origination and execution of M&A and capital market transactions within the Financial Institutions / Fintech sector

  • Wholesale Banking traineeship

    2016 - 2019

    The ING International Talent Programme (ITP) is a tailor-made graduate program 1st rotation: Corporate Lending - Technology, Media & Telecom 2nd rotation: Investment Banking (Amsterdam & London)

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2016 - 2019

  • ING Ventures - Associate

    2018 - 2018

    Corporate venture capital arm of ING Bank responsible for a €300m fintech fund. Investing in seed stage ventures graduated from ING's accelerator programme as well as in external scaling stage ventures (typically Series A and B funding rounds)

  • Internship - Portfolio Analyst Latin America

    2015 - 2016

  • Student Consultant

    2013 - 2013

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