# Victor Straatman · bio and press kit

General partner, 4impact capital · The Hague · https://straatman.co/about/ · Last updated 8 October 2026

Victor Straatman is a general partner at 4impact capital in The Hague. He backs early-stage European technology that solves global challenges, after twenty years of building companies himself. The full story, told from today back to Groningen: https://straatman.co/

## Short bio (about 40 words)

Victor Straatman is a general partner at 4impact capital in The Hague, backing early-stage European tech that solves global challenges. Before investing he spent twenty years building companies, co-founding Redkiwi, Meatme and Verble. He is a civil engineer from TU Delft, born in Groningen.

## Medium bio (about 100 words)

Victor Straatman is a general partner at 4impact capital in The Hague, where he backs early-stage European technology that solves global challenges, seed to Series A, from the €68M Fund II. He led 4impact's recent rounds in OurMind and Regulate and its first investment in Lucend. Before investing he spent twenty years building companies: Redkiwi, the Rotterdam digital agency he co-founded in 2004; Meatme, a regenerative-meat platform in Vancouver; and Verble, an AI speechwriting assistant. He holds an MSc in civil engineering from TU Delft and was born in Groningen.

## Long bio (about 250 words)

Victor Straatman is a general partner at 4impact capital, the impact venture fund in The Hague that invests seed to Series A in European digital technology addressing global challenges, with first tickets of €250k to €2.5M from its €68M Fund II. He joined 4impact in 2021 as entrepreneur in residence and became a partner in January 2024. He led the fund's €2.1M Series A in OurMind, which takes administrative work off hospital doctors, its €1.4M seed round in Regulate, a science-backed breathwork platform for the workplace, and its first investment in Coolgradient, now Lucend, which cuts the energy data centres spend on cooling.

Before investing, Victor built companies for twenty years. In 2004 he co-founded Redkiwi in Rotterdam with Jasper Verbunt and bootstrapped it into a 50-person digital agency, recognised by the FD Gazellen and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50; he remains a shareholder. In Vancouver, from 2015 to 2019, he co-founded Meatme, connecting people with regenerative farmers, and mentored founders at Launch Academy, Futurpreneur Canada, e@UBC and RADIUS SFU. Back in the Netherlands he worked at BrandLoyalty as business director and business development manager EMEA, and in 2023 co-founded Verble, an AI speechwriting assistant used in more than 100 countries. He has been a guest lecturer in entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Victor holds an MSc in civil engineering from Delft University of Technology, was born in Groningen, and lives in The Hague with his wife, the textile artist Manon Garritsen, and their two sons.

## What I do at 4impact capital (2024 to now)

At 4impact we back early-stage European tech that solves global challenges: seed to Series A, first tickets of €250k to €2.5M from our €68M Fund II, across the Benelux, DACH and the Nordics. I look for founders who want impact for people and planet as much as a business that scales, and who see no conflict between the two. Everything about the fund, the portfolio and how to pitch lives at https://www.4impact.vc/

## Recent (newest first)

- June 2026 · Led 4impact's €2.1M Series A in OurMind, AI that takes admin work off hospital doctors. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/4impact-leads-round-in-ourmind-to-protect-care-professionals-from-burnout
- May 2026 · Led 4impact's €1.4M seed round in Regulate, science-backed breathwork for the workplace. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/4impact-leads-seed-round-regulate-breathwork-workplace
- March 2026 · Solar Monkey and Eturnity merge to form the European leader in installer software; Victor followed the merger from the supervisory board. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/solar-monkey-and-eturnity-merge-to-form-the-european-leader-in-installer-software
- January 2026 · Lucend, formerly Coolgradient, raises $3.3M; Victor led 4impact's first investment in 2024 and the fund followed on. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/lucend-raises-seed-transparent-ai-to-data-centers-to-increase-uptime-and-reliability-while-maximizing-efficiency
- June 2024 · IO+ interview, "Profit and impact can coexist", after the Upstream Festival in Rotterdam. https://ioplus.nl/archive/en/profit-and-impact-can-coexist-victor-straatmans-take-on-startup-investing/
- January 2024 · Appointed partner at 4impact capital after two and a half years as entrepreneur in residence. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/4impact-appoints-victor-straatman-as-partner

## Facts and dates

- Name: Victor Straatman
- Title: General partner, 4impact capital, The Hague, since January 2024
- Before that: Entrepreneur in residence at 4impact capital, 2021 to January 2024
- Companies: Co-founder of Redkiwi (Rotterdam, 2004, with Jasper Verbunt; shareholder since handing over the day-to-day in 2015), Meatme (Vancouver, 2015 to 2019) and Verble (2023)
- Employment: BrandLoyalty, 's-Hertogenbosch, business director and business development manager EMEA, 2019 to 2021
- Mentoring: Launch Academy, Futurpreneur Canada, e@UBC, RADIUS SFU, Village Capital, Graduate Entrepreneur, Warren Brandeis
- Teaching: Guest lecturer in entrepreneurial marketing and bootstrapping, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2011 to 2015
- Education: MSc civil engineering, Delft University of Technology, 1994 to 2002
- Abroad: Auckland, New Zealand, 2002 to 2004; Vancouver, Canada, 2015 to 2019
- Born: Groningen, the Netherlands
- Lives: The Hague, with Manon Garritsen and their two sons
- Languages: Dutch, English

## Press, interviews and writing

- 28 June 2024 · IO+ · Profit and impact can coexist: Victor Straatman's take on startup investing. https://ioplus.nl/archive/en/profit-and-impact-can-coexist-victor-straatmans-take-on-startup-investing/ (Dutch: https://ioplus.nl/archive/nl/winst-en-impact-kunnen-naast-elkaar-bestaan-victor-straatman-kijk-op-investeren-in-startups/)
- June 2026 · EU-Startups · Amsterdam's OurMind raises €2.1 million to reduce healthcare admin burden with AI. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/amsterdams-ourmind-raises-e2-1-million-to-reduce-healthcare-admin-burden-with-ai/
- January 2026 · Data Center Dynamics · Lucend raises $3.3m to fund US roll-out of AI platform for data center efficiency. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lucend-raises-33m-to-fund-us-roll-out-of-ai-platform-for-data-center-efficiency/
- 23 January 2024 · 4impact capital · 4impact appoints Victor Straatman as Partner. https://www.4impact.vc/articles/4impact-appoints-victor-straatman-as-partner
- Ongoing · Posts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/straatman

## Headshots (free to use with credit: Victor Straatman / straatman.co)

- Square portrait, blue background: https://straatman.co/img/victor-headshot-square.png (black and white: https://straatman.co/img/victor-headshot-square-mono.png)
- Half-length portrait, navy background, 1600 px: https://straatman.co/img/victor-headshot.jpg (black and white: https://straatman.co/img/victor-headshot-mono.jpg)

## How to describe me

Name: Victor Straatman. Title: general partner at 4impact capital. City: The Hague. In one line: "Victor Straatman, general partner at 4impact capital, The Hague". In Dutch: "Victor Straatman, general partner bij 4impact capital, Den Haag". The firm writes its name in lower case: 4impact capital, or 4impact for short. Link to https://straatman.co/about/ for the bio and to https://www.4impact.vc for anything about the fund.

## Elsewhere

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/straatman · X https://x.com/straatman · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/straatman/ · Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141614655 · Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/person/victor-straatman · 4impact team page https://www.4impact.vc/about-us

## Contact

victor@straatman.co. Press, talks, or something you're building that makes the world better. Decks go to https://www.4impact.vc