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Hubert Deitmers

Managing partner

Hubert is co-founder and Managing Partner of Endeit Capital. As boardmember he is actively involved with the portfolio companies Picturae and Spilgames. He also served as Supervisory Board member of numerous other portfolio companies such as Metrixlab, Albumprinter, Eyeworks and Hyves.

Hubert also devotes maximum efforts to supporting entrepreneurship in general by being the Chair of the Dutch ‘Jong Ondernemen’ foundation and the LOEY foundation, which he co-founded, and by serving as Advisory Board Member of the Amsterdam Center of Entrepreneurship. He also published a business book called ‘Thinking BIC’. Hubert furthermore was involved with Nyenrode New Business School since its inception and served as board member for many years. As a member of the Expert Committee KMO he has been advising the Minister of Economic Affairs in 2006 and 2007.

Since 2005 he was an angel investor in the Dutch leading social network Hyves, where he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board till the acquisition by TMG. He is also co-founder of Solid Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. Until 2005 he was a Member of the Executive Board of Endemol and played a leading role in the internationalization of the company since its IPO in 1996. Prior to Endemol, Hubert gained over eight years of international venture capital experience in Europe and the US at Atlas Venture.

He holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Deitmers@endeit.com

Martijn Hamann

Partner

Martijn joined Endeit Capital at the start as Partner in 2006. Today, he is responsible for deals in DACH, UK, Nordics.

Until 2006 he was a member of the Executive Director team of Endemol Group, the world’s largest independent provider of multi screen content. He joined Endemol in 1996.

In 2004, Martijn acted  as Interim Director at mobile game developer/publisher Overloaded and exited to Norwegian telco Telenor. Early 2005, Martijn became Executive Director at Endemol for International Operations, responsible  for managing the worldwide key subsidiaries, especially related to developing new business and new markets. Prior he was heading the M&A activities at Endemol. Martijn Hamann gained extensive experience in various M&A transactions until 1996 as consultant of the Dutch M&A boutique Reitsma & Wertheim (Investec). He holds a BA Economics and MsC Business Administration from the Erasmus University – Rotterdam School of Management – Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

He is Boardmember at portfolio company Chronext (CH/DE, new & pre-owned luxury watches platform), TourRadar (AT, multi-day travel tours booking platform), Blis (UK, global leader in location & movement data technology), Gastrofix (DE, online POS for gastronomy) and observer on the board of Spil Games (NL, global publisher of online and mobile casual games). Martijn was previously on the Board at (exited) portfolio companies Contorion (DE), Unruly (UK), Smartclip (DE), Improve Digital (NL), Spil Games (NL), Advance (NL), CBV (PT) and Accepte/Paylogic (NL).

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martijn@endeit.com

Edwin Hengstmengel

Partner

Edwin joined Endeit Capital early 2008 and became Partner in 2015. He is responsible for deals in the Benelux and other territories, excluding Germany. Prior to joining Endeit, Edwin was Investment Manager at Cyrte Investments, focusing on public and private investments. Cyrte started as family office of John de Mol, co-founder of Endemol. Before Cyrte, he was consultant at CPS Alcar performing financial analysis, fair value opinions and value based management projects for corporates. He started his career at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Edwin’s background is in New Media, Private Equity and M&A. He studied aviation economics and holds a Masters Degree in Financial Economics and Business Administration but showed real perspiration by running the Athens marathon, 2500 years after Greek soldier Pheidippides was sent for a message.

Edwin is board member at Real Impact Analytics and Quadia. He is also observer on the board of Picturae. Edwin is director of the LOEY foundation, a Dutch initiative to stimulate Entrepreneurship.

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edwin@endeit.com

Jelle-Jan Bruinsma

Partner

Jelle-Jan combines seven years of hands-on management, operational and business development experience at YouTube (Google) with ten years experience in Private Equity (NPM Capital), corporate M&A (Endemol) and Venture Capital (Endeit Capital).

After working over 5 years with the Endeit Capital team on their first fund from early 2006 onwards he then joined YouTube as head of partnerships for Nordics and Benelux and later headed the go-to-market teams for YouTube partnerships for EMEA and APAC out of London. July 2018, he returned to Endeit Capital as Partner.

Jelle-Jan has been co-lead on multiple Endeit Capital deals, including Unamic, their acquisition of HCN and the combined exit to Rank-Xerox, Metrixlab, Smartclip and others.

Jelle-Jan holds a MSc Industrial Engineering and Management from Twente University, the Netherlands.

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Jellejan@endeit.com

Philipp Schroeder

Venture Partner

Philipp is Venture Partner for Germany at Endeit Advisors since end of 2017. He discovered his passion for technology companies when working for a software company specialised in the technology transfer industry. He gathered extensive experience in the venture capital industry through carrying out more than 40 investments in early stage companies mainly at Active Venture Partners, which he co-founded in 2002. Philipp is born in Germany and has lived and worked in Germany, England, United States and Spain. Philipp graduated from the City University Business School London in 1999. He’s also Managing Partner Next Logistics Accelerator in Hamburg and mentoring at Microsoft Germany Accelerator and Techstars.

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philipp@endeit.com

Ilan Goudsmit

Associate

Ilan joined Endeit Capital in 2012 and is an Associate. He is responsible for originating Benelux deal flow, operational & corporate development at portfolio companies and performs studies on various focus segments. He has deep domain expertise in online video, ad tech, mobile, fin tech and software. Ilan is Advisory Board Member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau Netherlands, Mentor at the accelerator Startupbootcamp in Amsterdam and is co-founder and board member of VEECEE, the foundation for Dutch venture capital professionals.

Prior to Endeit, Ilan was CFO, Business Development Director and Legal Counsel at Club Judge, an online review platform and ad network for DJs and clubs.

Ilan interned at the corporate finance department for large corporations of ABN AMRO Bank. His background is in New Media, Startups, Law and Finance. He holds an honours Master in Commercial and M&A Laws from the University of Amsterdam and completed graduate courses in law and business during an exchange program at the University of California in Berkeley.

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ilan@endeit.com

Fan Zhang

Junior Analyst

Fan joined Endeit Advisors as a junior analyst in 2017. Based in Hamburg, she is responsible for deal sourcing and analyzing in the DACH region.

Prior, Fan followed a master program of Global Management and Governance at the Hamburg School of Business Administration in Germany, specialising in Entrepreneurial Finance. At the same time, she gained international trading experience in an E-Commerce company Bandel Autoteile. Her bachelor degree of International Business Management was obtained at Nottingham University, UK. She also studied luxury industry in her exchange program at NEOMA business school in France.

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fan@endeit.com

Willem van Vark

Controller

Willem joined Endeit Capital as Controller at the start in 2006 and is responsible for financial reporting. He was controller at NeSBIC Groep between 1994 and 2005 and Fortis Private Equity Holding from 1987 to 1994. Both companies were part of the Fortis Group.

His background is in full service back office reporting in private equity & venture capital. Willem supported the investment teams of the investment funds within the NeSBIC organization. He holds a Degree in Financial Administration.

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willem@endeit.com

Wendy Horlings

Office Manager

Wendy joined Endeit Capital as Office Manager at the start in 2006 and is responsible for office management. Prior to joining Endeit, Wendy was employed as personal assistant to the Executive Board of Endemol between 1999 and 2005. She worked as a stewardess at KLM and was a management assistant at Horlings, an organization of accountants and tax advisors. Wendy holds a degree in Tourism.

Wendy is event manager of the LOEY foundation, a Dutch initiative to stimulate online entrepreneurship.

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wendy@endeit.com

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