About us
We advise founders with raising capital, secondaries and exits and offer them to co-invest part of their proceeds with us in new talented founders.
Dave has been active as a venture capital and merger and acquisition lawyer since 1998. First at the global firm DLA Piper and later at Certa Legal Group and Steelman, which he co-founded. Since 2012, Dave has made over 27 investments, as an angel investor and as a partner of the venture capital firms Keadyn, EVO Venture Partners and Velar Capital. Dave is active as board member of various ventures. His investments and expertise are mainly in e-commerce, fintech and enterprise software. Next to that, Dave manages various family offices in relation to their tech investments. With his combined experience and background, Dave is able to advise founders and investors in relation to all aspects that are important in any funding or exit project.
Arjan has been active in early stage financing and M&A since late 1999. He has worked for both boutiques and corporates, specialising in tech transactions. Arjan has gained valuable operating experience as CFO. Arjan has successfully executed over 70 transactions (funding and M&A) in various industries and has made several angel investments. During his time in Funding and M&A, Arjan has been active as a partner at IMPROVED Corporate Finance, has been a Senior Manager M&A at KPN and has been a Director at First Dutch Capital. Arjan has filled numerous roles a CFO/Operator including BridgeFund, iwell Middistrict (now part of Asklepios) and Galaxy Business Networks (now part of EDPnet).