Venture Capital

Prime Ventures

Prime Ventures is one of the longest-running growth-stage venture firms in the Netherlands, founded in 1999 and operating from Naarden with additional presence in London. The firm writes Series B and later checks of EUR 10-40 million into European technology companies with proven revenue traction, with a sector focus spanning B2B SaaS, digital marketplaces, fintech, and consumer internet.

Over more than two decades Prime has backed companies including Just Eat, Takeaway.com, Gemalto, TaxiCaller, Brandbank, Recommind, and Impraise, and has produced several of the most profitable Dutch venture returns on record. The firm is a useful example of a Benelux-headquartered fund that plays a growth-round role traditionally occupied by US crossover investors, and it is often one of the first calls for a Dutch or wider European scale-up raising its first big post-PMF round.

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Location

Naarden, Netherlands

Category

Venture Capital

Stage

Series B to Growth

Profile

/netherlands/venture-capital/prime-ventures

Portfolio startups

Startups this investor has backed

Just Eat

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Just Eat began in Kolding in 2001 as one of the first online takeaway ordering marketplaces in Europe. After early traction in Denmark, the company relocated to London and expanded aggressively across Europe and beyond through acquisitions and country launches. Just Eat listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 and later merged with Takeaway.com, forming one of the largest food delivery groups globally. The company is a defining example of a Danish startup scaling into a multi-billion euro public business.

StartupGrowthMarketplaceFood DeliveryE-commerce

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