Maven11 Capital
Amsterdam-based venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed blockchain infrastructure and applications. Its website says it has raised USD 350 million across three venture funds since 2017.
Industry: Venture capital (crypto and blockchain) | Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands | Founded: 2017
About Maven11 Capital
Maven11 Capital, which trades as Maven 11, is a crypto-native venture capital firm based in Amsterdam. Its website says it backs pre-seed and seed founders who build blockchain infrastructure and applications, with a focus on decentralized finance, payments and financial infrastructure, and that it has supported more than 100 ventures. Its offices are listed at Herengracht 136 in Amsterdam, with a second office in Jersey on its About page and in the Cayman Islands on its home page.
The firm says it was founded in Amsterdam in 2017. Joost van der Plas is founder and chief executive; he describes spending 11 years in senior telecom management at KPN, Tele2 and UPC before moving into crypto. Balder Bomans is founder and chief investment officer and previously traded European cash equities at Kempen and Company. Arun Rambocus is chief financial officer. Mathijs van Esch, who joined in 2017 as an analyst, is general partner. The site says the firm has more than 30 staff of 16 nationalities, including an investment team of 12.
Maven 11 manages four funds: the Digital Assets Fund (BVF1), launched in 2017; Blockchain Venture Fund 2, launched in 2021; Blockchain Venture Fund 3, launched in 2024 for early-stage founders in credit, payments, stablecoins and trading; and the Maven 11 Yield Fund, a market-neutral fixed income fund added in 2026. Its investor site says it has raised USD 350 million from institutional investors since 2017, although another figure on its About page reads USD 250 million.
In December 2021 Silicon Canals and ForkLog reported that Venture Fund II closed at USD 120 million, about EUR 106 million, for decentralized finance and Web 3.0 investments. Silicon Canals listed Celestia, Qredo, Nym Technologies and Spectral Finance in the first fund, and Merit Circle, Maple Finance, Anoma and Zapper among the early investments of the second. Its home page also shows NFTfi, Polymer, Saga and Runtime Verification as portfolio companies.
In March 2026 the firm took part in the USD 7.5 million seed round of Utexo, a UAE-based startup building USDT settlement on the Bitcoin network.
Leadership
- Joost van der Plas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Balder Bomans, Founder and Chief Investment Officer
- Arun Rambocus, Chief Financial Officer
- Mathijs van Esch, General Partner
- Mads Mathiesen, Venture Partner