Peak Capital

Peak's partnership pairs financial analysts with operators. General partner Stefan Bary joined in 2015 after corporate finance at First Dutch advisory and leading the entrepreneur-backed Javest Investment Fund, and champions the firm's deep-data approach. General partner Marnix Broer co-founded Studocu and served as its chief executive, scaling a student marketplace from a university project to tens of millions of monthly users. General partner Tea Elezi came through technology M&A and pairs data analysis with product and behavioral work. Partner David Zwagemaker was a managing director at Rocket Internet across Southeast Asia and later co-founded the painting marketplace Weissmaler. Partner Philippe von Klitzing joined in January 2023 to cover DACH after co-founding a French self-storage startup sold in 2017 and running fund administration and fundraising at Join Capital. Johan van Mil and Heleen Dura-van Oord serve as advisers.

Peak describes itself as the early-stage fund backed by entrepreneurs, from founders for founders, and publishes a €125 million fund size for the vehicle it is currently deploying. It has made more than fifty investments across Europe and writes initial tickets of €250,000 to €4 million, following into later rounds as companies scale. The model is structural rather than vertical: Peak backs SaaS, marketplace and platform businesses rather than particular industry verticals, on the argument that what makes those models work, and how to scale them across maturity stages, verticals and borders, is the firm's specific expertise. It invests in B2B, B2C, B2B2C and C2C variants of those models. The fund operates from three offices, Amsterdam, Berlin and Stockholm, giving it Benelux, DACH and Nordic coverage, and it publishes an SFDR disclosure consistent with an EU-regulated venture capital manager.