Episode 19 - Fundraising Founder: Mahmoud el Wakil - Homemade

In this episode, Laurie Lancee speaks with Mahmoud el Wakil, fundraising founder of Homemade.

Homemade is building the Airbnb of food delivery. A platform that connects people who love to cook from home with customers looking for affordable, authentic, high-quality meals. Chefs start their restaurant from home with zero upfront cost and personally deliver to neighbours within a few kilometres.

With 2,000+ chef sign-ups, 10K+ app users, €10K+ MRR and 7 cities live across the Netherlands, Homemade is proving that real food, real connection and a sustainable business model can beat the giants.

We discuss the idea behind Homemade, the business model, how they tackle logistics without a delivery fleet, and why Mahmoud believes distribution is the most important skill right now.

Key Metrics:

1. Sector: Marketplaces / FoodTech
2. Country: The Netherlands
3. Business model: Commission-based marketplace (10-14%)
4. Market: Dutch food delivery (€10B TAM) / Global ($460B TAM)
5. Traction: 10K+ app sign-ups, €10K+ MRR, 7 cities live, 2,000+ chef sign-ups
6. Value proposition: Home-cooked food, chef-delivered, 35-40% cheaper than mainstream apps

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Episode 18 - Fundraising Founder: Anna Brueva- ChemReclam.

In this episode, Laurie Lancee speaks with Anna Brueva, fundraising founder of ChemReclaim.

ChemReclaim develops nanomaterials from precious and rare earth metals, enabling industries like semiconductors and advanced ceramics to reduce material usage while improving performance.

With increasing pressure on supply chains and pricing, driven by Europe’s dependence on imported rare earth metals, ChemReclaim offers a solution that can reduce metal usage by up to 5 to 10 times, translating into significant cost savings for customers.

We discuss the technology behind their materials, the market opportunity in nanomaterials, and how ChemReclaim is positioning itself within critical supply chains.

Key Metrics:

1. Sector: DeepTech / Advanced Materials
2. Country: the Netherlands
3. Business model: B2B materials technology
4. Market: Nanomaterials for semiconductors, energy and ceramics
5. Market size: €9-9.5bn global market, €200–300m target segment
6. Value proposition: Reduce metal usage while improving performance

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Episode 17 - Fundraising Founder: Lili Vogelsang- fredie

In this episode, Laurie Lancee speaks with Lili Vogelsang, founder of fredie.

fredie is building what they describe as a Duolingo for social skills. The platform helps Gen-Z practice real life social interactions, build confidence, and eventually form meaningful friendships offline.

Loneliness among young people is increasingly described as a global issue. Despite being the most connected generation online, Gen-Z is also one of the loneliest. Some studies suggest that more than half of Gen-Z experiences loneliness.

fredie focuses on improving what founder Lili Vogelsang calls Social Quotient (SQ). Just like IQ measures intelligence and EQ emotional intelligence, SQ relates to our ability to connect with others.

In this conversation we discuss the loneliness epidemic, how social skills can be trained, and why even a few minutes of daily practice may improve confidence in social situations.

Key insight from the episode: “Two to three minutes of practice per day can already improve your social skills.”

Key Metrics:

1. Sector: Social tech / consumer wellbeing
2. Country: Germany
3. Business model: Freemium app B2C
4. Target users: Gen Z
5. Product: Social skills training platform

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Episode 16 - Fundraising Founders: Tijn Baart, Levi Baart and Stefan Wijdenes- Goodoo

In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Tijn Baart, Levi Baart and Stefan Wijdenes, co-founders of Goodoo,a Dutch plant-based ice cream brand redefining indulgence through sustainability.

Founded in Amsterdam, Goodoo creates creamy ice cream made from plant based ingredients, including upcycled cashews via Johnny Cashew and rescued fruit streams.

What started with a food truck selling ice pops at festivals has grown into a national brand.

Goodoo is one of the few emerging ice cream brands in the Netherlands successfully building both retail and horeca distribution, a combination usually dominated by large FMCG brands.

Goodoo products are now available at various supermarkets: Albert Heijn, PLUS, Dekamarkt, Boon’s Market and more than 650 horeca locations.

In 2025 the company generated nearly 2m EUR revenue and sold more than 2.5 million units.

Goodoo is currently raising 1m EUR to reach profitability and continue scaling.

Their Broccoli crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed 500k EUR.

In this episode we discuss

1. building a B2B2C consumer brand
2. scaling retail and horeca distribution
3. managing seasonality in ice cream
4. working capital and production partnerships
5. growing a sustainable food brand

Key Metrics

1. Sector: Consumer Goods, Food and sustainability
2. Country: Netherlands
3. Revenue: 1.9m EUR in 2025
4. Units sold: 2.5M annually
5. Distribution: 2100+ retail stores and 650 horeca locations
6. Stage: Seed

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Episode 15 | Investor spotlight: Warnyta Minnaard

In this episode of AtVenture DealFlow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Warnyta Minnaard, active angel investor and member of the Health Investment Committee at AtVenture Platform.

Warnyta previously worked as an investment manager at Noaber and Donor Impact Invest Fund. Today, she combines impact driven angel investing with her work as co founder of Missie Tumor Onbekend and project manager at the Netherlands Cancer Agenda, where she focuses on improving oncology care and access to innovation.

Her perspective on investing is shaped by personal experience, deep sector knowledge, and a strong belief that impact, credibility, and long term system integration matter more than fast hype.

🎯 Why listen

1. What Warnyta looks for when evaluating very early stage health startups
2. Why founder motivation and credibility matter more than polished decks
3. How health innovations should integrate into existing care and reimbursement systems
4. What traction looks like when revenue is not there yet
5. Honest advice for both founders and first time angel investors

💡 Key focus areas

1. Investment focus: Health and impact driven innovation
2. Preferred stage: Pre seed and seed
3. Geography: Netherlands
4. Value add: oncology network, health system insight, strategic sparring
5. Investor lens: impact first, scalable through systems, equitable access

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Episode 14 - Fundraising Founder: Femke Delissen- PAVA

In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Femke Delissen, co-founder of PAVA, an Amsterdam-based HealthTech startup using privacy friendly WiFi based motion sensing to support elderly care.

Healthcare systems face a structural crisis driven by an ageing population and severe staff shortages. While motion monitoring can significantly improve care quality and efficiency, existing solutions are often invasive, expensive or poorly integrated into daily workflows.

PAVA introduces a non invasive WiFi based sensing layer that translates movement into real time insights on activity, safety and lifestyle patterns without cameras or wearables. The solution helps care teams reduce unnecessary checks, prevent incidents such as wandering or falls and deliver more dignified care.

Founded by three AI graduates, PAVA bridges proven WiFi sensing technology with the realities of elderly care workflows. The company focuses on being a universal sensing layer that integrates seamlessly via APIs into existing healthcare systems.

Key metrics

1. Sector: HealthTech Elderly Care
2. Country: Netherlands
3. Business model: B2B SaaS paid per bed per month
4. Stage: Pre-seed
5. Traction: Paid 6-month pilot with ViVa zorggroep, selected for YES Delft Accelerator and InnovationQuarter HealthTech Accelerator
6. Funding Round: Non dilutive funding €411K EFRO Kansen voor West III grant and €150K Rabobank Innovation Loan + fundraising €200K via SAFE to match awarded subsidy

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Episode 13 - Fundraising Founders: Ania Ullmann & Yair Kira - Yeda

In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Anna Maria Ullmann and Yair Kira, founders of Yeda, a Berlin-based women’s health startup.

Yeda is building the first bra for the pelvic floor: a wearable device designed for daily use, combining immediate support with long-term muscle strengthening.

The company started from personal experience. Co-founder Yair saw first-hand how pelvic floor problems affected his mother and how limited existing solutions were.

As the founders say:

“Our life begins in our mother’s pelvic floor – let’s take care of it.”

Pelvic floor weakness affects 50% of women, particularly post-partum and during menopause, yet remains a largely underserved area within a €130B+ global women’s health market.

Key Metrics

1. Sector: Health / Wellbeing (FemTech)
2. Country: Germany
3. Business model: B2C + B2B
4. Stage: Pre-seed
5. Market: €130B+ global women’s health market
6. Traction:137 pre-sold units via crowdfunding, achieved with only €500 total marketing spend
7. Funding round: €450k target | €200k committed

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Episode 12 - Fundraising Founder: Julia Minici – Afterwind

In this episode of AtVenture DealFlow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Julia Minici, co-founder and CEO of Afterwind.

Afterwind is a Swedish deep tech company focused on true recycling of wind turbine blades and other hard-to-recycle glass fibre composite materials.

As wind energy scales across Europe, a massive waste problem is emerging. Wind turbine blades have a lifespan of 15–20 years, after which most end up in landfill or incineration, destroying valuable material and creating long-term environmental harm.

Afterwind addresses this challenge by transforming end-of-life composite materials into high-quality raw materials that can be reused in industrial value chains. Using a combination of mechanical and chemical recycling, the company aims to recover over 95% of material value while avoiding downcycling.

In this episode, Julia shares how her transition from a senior career at JP Morgan to deep tech entrepreneurship led her to build capital-intensive climate infrastructure, why composite waste is one of the biggest blind spots of the energy transition, and what it takes to scale circular materials across borders.

Key Metrics: Afterwind

1. Sector: Deep Tech / Circular Materials / Climate Infrastructure
2. Business Model: B2B wholesale recycling (input fees + off-taker sales)
3. Founded: 2023 (Sweden-based, European focus)
4. Team: Four co-founders with 40+ years of combined recycling and industrial experience
5. Traction: Active pilots with large industrial and energy players; strong market pull driven by EU landfill bans
6. Round: Seed
7. Use of funds: CAPEX for end-to-end recycling lines, capacity build-out and continued R&D
8. Market: ~45 million tons of composite waste expected by 2050, with limited scalable recycling capacity today
9. Impact: Recovering material value, reducing landfill and incineration, and cutting composite material emissions by up to 40%

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In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Nina van Schaick - co-Founder and COO of Peripear

PeriPear is a femtech medtech startup focused on preventing perineal trauma during vaginal birth.

Despite strong clinical evidence showing that birth injuries can be reduced by up to 50%, prevention has failed to scale in daily clinical practice.

PeriPear addresses this gap with a non-invasive medical device designed to fit existing clinical workflows, without requiring behaviour change from women or clinicians.

In this episode, Nina shares how her background as a midwife led her to build a scalable, evidence-based solution for one of the most under-addressed issues in women’s health, and what it takes to build a capital-efficient femtech company in a regulated healthcare market.

Key Metrics: PeriPear

1. Sector: FemTech / MedTech / Women’s Health
2. Business Model: B2B medical device (hospitals & birth centres)
3. Founded: 2020 (UK-based, global focus)
4. Team: Clinically led founding team with deep midwifery and healthcare expertise
5. Traction: Strong clinical validation; growing adoption in birth care settings
6. Round: Pre-seed
7. Use of funds: Clinical validation, manufacturing, regulatory progress and market entry
8. Market: ~90% of vaginal births involve perineal trauma, yet prevention remains inconsistent
9. Impact: Reducing birth injuries, long-term pelvic floor damage and associated healthcare and workforce costs

🎧 Listen to the full episode of AtVenture DealFlow to learn why prevention in birth care has lagged behind for decades, how PeriPear is building real clinical traction across continents, and what investors should understand about femtech and regulated health innovation.

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In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Caroline Lakshmanan - co-Founder and CEO of Cloud Closet

Cloud Closet is a fashion tech startup building a dedicated social platform for getting dressed.

Instead of search or purchase history, Cloud Closet starts from outfit history and real community input to help people discover, plan and shop fashion in a more human and sustainable way.

In this episode, Caroline explains why fashion is one of the biggest conversation topics on social media, yet still lacks a platform designed specifically for the act of getting dressed.

Key Metrics: Cloud Closet

1. Sector: Fashion Tech / Consumer Tech / Social Commerce
2. Business Model: B2C platform with affiliate commerce, resale and rental integrations
3. Founded: 2023 (HQ US, Global company)
4. Team: Founder-led team with background in fashion, tech and community building
5. Traction: 5,000+ outfit uploads within months of MVP launch, strong daily power users, high qualitative community engagement
6. Round: Raising $700k pre-seed
7. Use of funds: Product development, hiring a CTO, scaling community growth and go-to-market
8. Market: Fashion is the second most talked-about topic on social media globally, yet lacks a dedicated platform for getting dressed
9. Impact: Enabling more conscious fashion consumption by starting from outfit reuse, community insight and human taste over algorithms

🎧 Listen to the full episode of AtVenture DealFlow to learn how Cloud Closet is building the social platform fashion has been missing and why community-driven consumer platforms still represent a major opportunity.

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