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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Mar 7

The Big Exit Show: Selling Gadero to Egeria — Henk Jan Bijmolt on the exit of his successful webshop

🎧 Tune in to The Big Exit Show, this time with ‘idea machine’ Henk Jan Bijmolt, who sold wood webshop Gadero to Egeria, and knows all about the space as the owner of tuindeco. Henk Jan shares great insights as a true entrepreneur and countless anecdotes, like how he became…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Gadero to Egeria — Henk Jan Bijmolt on the exit of his successful…
The Big Exit Show: Selling Gadero to Egeria — Henk Jan Bijmolt on the exit of his successful…

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Feb 23

Benelux SaaS Landscape (2023 Q1): An updated snapshot of “who’s who” in Software-as-a-Service

It’s that time of the year again: introducing the Benelux SaaS Landscape! Since we published our latest SaaS landscape, the SaaS fundamentals have remained strong. — At Peak, we’re focused on what we know best: SaaS and Marketplaces. As SaaS-specific investors, the Software-as-a-Service landscape was one of our first creations. To this day, we update it regularly to share a snapshot of prominent players per industry in the Benelux scene.

Venture Capital

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Benelux SaaS Landscape (2023 Q1): An updated snapshot of “who’s who” in Software-as-a-Service
Benelux SaaS Landscape (2023 Q1): An updated snapshot of “who’s who” in Software-as-a-Service
Venture Capital

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Feb 21

CarbonCloud raises €7.5 million in Series A to become the food industry’s leading climate intelligence platform

CarbonCloud, the climate-tech SaaS solution for the food industry secured €7.5 million to expand its market position as the leading climate intelligence platform. The financing round was led by Cusp Capital and Peak, joined by Rivus Ventures, and continued participation from current investors Maki VC and TS Ventures. Founded in…

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CarbonCloud raises €7.5
CarbonCloud raises €7.5

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Feb 7

The Big Exit Show: Selling Cumulocity to Software AG — Bernd Gross on selling his IoT-startup

Bernd Gross is a true entrepreneur and his story of building and selling Cumulocity is an inspiring one. On this episode of The Big Exit Show, Bernd shares the journey he went through to create and grow Cumulocity as a spin-off of Nokia Siemens Networks. …

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Cumulocity to Software AG — Bernd Gross on selling his IoT-startup
The Big Exit Show: Selling Cumulocity to Software AG — Bernd Gross on selling his IoT-startup

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Nov 4, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right moment

In this episode of The Big Exit Show, we talk to Dr. Hendrik Witt of Ubimax. Witt sold his augmented reality solution to Teamviewer in 2020. He founded the company in 2014 together with Percy Stocker and Jan Junker. At the time of the acquisition, the exit price has not…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right…
The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right…

29 min read


Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Oct 6, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits

In this episode of The Big Exit Show, we talk to serial entrepreneur Paul Veugen who founded Usabilla, and the iOS app of the year Human.co. Usabilla was later sold to SurveyMonkey, and Human.co was acquired by Mapbox. He is currently building a new venture called Detail.co to help creators…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits
The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Sep 20, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen

When Tuomas Toivonen realized there was no banking service that would help him run his business, he didn’t just sit around but founded neobank Holvi together with Kristoffer Lawson, Mikko Teerenhovi and Teemu Hukkanen. They did this around the same time when Ali Niknam founded Bunq and even before other…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen
The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Apr 13, 2022

web3 | how did we get here

Preamble — No one can predict the future, neither can we, but we would like to explore together the opportunities in web3. During the past decades, we have seen many trying to predict the future of the internet and failing. Some have even gone public with their opinions on what will work…

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web3 | how did we get here
web3 | how did we get here

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Apr 7, 2022

Nordics Marketplace Map

❄️ Back to our roots, we are excited to publish our first beta marketplace map in the Nordics! ☀️ With our recent investment in Blidz 🇫🇮 together with General Catalyst, FJ Labs done from our Nordic office (Indra and Calin), we bring our entrepreneurial mindset and marketplace experience to the…

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Nordics Marketplace Map
Nordics Marketplace Map

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Mar 23, 2022

Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak

Helsinki, Finland — March 23rd 2022 — Blidz, the leading social shopping app combining gamification and social group buying, has raised €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak with participation from D4 Ventures (Hanzade Dogan), Illusian Capital (Ilkka Paananen), Fabric Ventures, FJ Labs as well as existing…

Seed Investor

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Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak
Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak
Seed Investor

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Thijs Dijkman

Thijs Dijkman

Stefan Bary

Stefan Bary

Stefan is Managing Partner at Peak Capital, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Netherlands focusing on marketplaces, SaaS and data companies.

Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

Serial entrepreneur turned European early stage marketplace, platform & SaaS investor @ Peak

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