EVO Venture Partners

What EVO Venture Partners does

EVO Venture Partners (legal name: EVO VP GLOBAL B.V.) is a Dutch micro venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Amsterdam, with additional offices in San Francisco and Singapore. The firm was formed by a group of IT entrepreneurs and investors and invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups operating in software-based infrastructure, specifically within the Cloud space, spanning backup, security, storage, virtualization, and networking. It caps activity at a maximum of three transactions per year and invests up to EUR 500,000 per venture, targeting a 12-18 month path from Seed to Series A with hands-on venture building.

The firm's core differentiators are operational rather than technological. It claims a hands-on model in which a dedicated lead team member is assigned to each investment, supplemented by the EVO Expert Network (a closed, invite-only group of European IT infrastructure experts acting as EIRs) and long-standing co-investment relationships with VCs in the US, Europe, and Asia. Its visible portfolio includes Stateless (software-defined interconnect, $1.4M seed in 2017, $11.33M Series A in 2019), RackN (multi-cloud lifecycle automation), DACS Laboratories (digital data transfer acceleration), Cloudbyte/OpenEBS (containerized storage, later MayaData), OpsMx (ML-driven software delivery), and The Fabric (co-creation foundry partnership).

As of the most recent data, EVO Venture Partners states it is "not actively investing but managing our portfolio," indicating a transition from active deployment to passive portfolio management. Revenue figures, fund size, AUM, and ownership structure are not publicly disclosed.

Name

EVO Venture Partners

Legal name

EVO VP GLOBAL B.V.

Website

https://evoventurepartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EVO Venture Partners is a Dutch micro VC founded in 2015 that invests pre-seed and seed capital in software-based infrastructure startups across cloud, storage, networking, and security; it is currently in portfolio management mode.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Investment Returns: EVO Venture Partners generates returns through equity investments in early-stage startups, specifically pre-seed and seed stage companies in software-based infrastructure and cloud space. They invest up to EUR 500,000 per venture and co-invest with their global venture capital network in follow-on rounds.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

EVO Venture Partners is a Dutch micro VC firm that provides pre-seed and seed stage equity investments of up to EUR 500,000 per venture into startups developing software-based infrastructure technologies, including cloud computing, storage virtualization, networking, security, and container orchestration. The firm combines capital with hands-on venture building, expert mentorship via its EVO Expert Network, and co-investor relationships to accelerate portfolio companies from Seed to Series A within 12-18 months.

Product overview

EVO Venture Partners is a Dutch micro VC firm based in Amsterdam, formed by IT entrepreneurs and investors. They are not a product company; they invest in pre-seed and seed-stage startups focused on software-based infrastructures, specifically in the Cloud space. Currently not actively investing but managing their existing portfolio. Their investment focus spans backup, security, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud infrastructure companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pre-Seed and Seed Stage Equity Investment
• EVO Expert Network and Experts in Residence (EIRs)

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• DataCore SoftwarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with DataCore Software includes welcoming proven team of engineers with over 150 years of collective experience in data management and storage. Key component of MayaData's $26M investment.
• The FabriccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-creation foundry focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure companies. Joint collaboration announced May 2018 to build venture-backed startups in Europe.
• EVO Expert Network (EIRs)coreOthersClosed group (invite-only) of IT Infrastructure experts delivering education and mentorship to portfolio companies across Sales, Product, Marketing, and International Scaling domains.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• LocalGlobe: London-based seed-stage investor backing early-stage tech companies across software, including infrastructure. Similar seed-stage ticket sizes and European focus to EVO.
• btov Partners: European VC (Berlin/St. Gallen) with dedicated industrial-tech and digital-infra seed funds, backing technical founders similar to EVO's IT-entrepreneur base. Closely comparable as a domain-specialist European seed investor.
• Speedinvest: European micro/early-stage VC focused on software, cloud and infrastructure. Speedinvest led the Stateless seed round that EVO co-invested in, and both firms share the same niche: pre-seed/seed software infrastructure in Europe.
• Hoxton Ventures: London-based seed VC focused on European tech startups including enterprise software and infrastructure. Comparable size, geography and stage to EVO Venture Partners.
• Crane Venture Partners: London-based seed-stage VC backing enterprise infrastructure, DevOps and developer-tooling startups in Europe and the US. Closely mirrors EVO's software-infrastructure thesis and small-cheque, high-engagement model.
• Point Nine Capital: Berlin-based seed VC investing in B2B SaaS and infrastructure startups, with a 'coaching-first' model targeting seed-to-Series-A. Highly comparable to EVO's hands-on 12-18 month acceleration approach in software infrastructure.

Broad incumbents

• Atomico: European-founded VC investing across stages in frontier and enterprise software. Despite broader mandate and larger funds, Atomico intersects EVO's space on European B2B / infrastructure deals.
• Insight Partners: Global large-scale software investor — led the $26M MayaData round in which EVO participated. A repeat co-investor and natural exit-path partner, but operates at the growth stage rather than seed.
• Earlybird Venture Capital: One of Europe's largest and longest-tenured VCs with deep enterprise software, infrastructure and developer-tools exposure. Operates across seed through growth, providing scale context versus EVO's micro scope.
• Dell Technologies Capital: Corporate venture arm of Dell focused on enterprise, storage, and infrastructure software. Co-invested with EVO in OpsMx and targets highly overlapping thesis areas, but with corporate balance-sheet scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments8 records

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