Maven 11 Capital

Maven 11's investment team is small and Amsterdam-based. Joost van der Plas and Balder Bomans are managing partners, with Bomans also serving as chief investment officer. Mathijs van Esch is general partner, Pim Swart is associate partner and Alexander Essle is principal. Below the partnership the firm staffs research rather than sourcing headcount: Mads Mathiesen is a researcher, Pablo Bilus is an investment analyst and Bram Van Roelen is head of product. That composition explains the firm's public output. Maven 11 publishes long-form technical theses and uses them as its sourcing funnel, a different model from relationship-led seed investing and one that requires people able to read protocol specifications rather than pitch decks. No prior-role or employment-history detail is published for any partner on the firm's site, so partner backgrounds could not be verified from a primary source.

Maven 11 publishes no fund names, vintages or closing sizes, and no vehicles appear under the name in SEC Form D company records, which is consistent with a European manager raising offshore: the firm lists a second registered address at 89 Nexus Way, Camana Bay in the Cayman Islands alongside its Amsterdam office at Herengracht 136. What is verifiable is the deployment pattern. Maven 11 invests at seed and Series A into crypto-native companies and organises itself around a modular-blockchain thesis it has published at length. Its essays on the modular world, shared sequencers, application-specific chains, cross-domain MEV and namespace Merkle trees map directly onto disclosed positions in Celestia, Astria, Anoma, Polymer and Saga. Other holdings include Maple, NFTfi, Runtime Verification, Sovereign, Stardust and Beam, weighted toward modular infrastructure, on-chain credit and developer tooling rather than consumer applications.