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About Investor

Nienke Roef is an investor with Graduate Entrepreneur in the Netherlands and has been part of the fund management team for the Graduate Entrepreneur Seed Fund, while more recently working as a Senior Associate at Boston Consulting Group. Through Graduate Entrepreneur, she invests primarily at pre-seed and seed, writing checks in the $100K to $5M range into ClimateTech/CleanTech, e-commerce, LegalTech, wellness & fitness and SaaS startups spun out of or connected to Delft and Rotterdam ecosystems. Her investment work is focused on very early technical founders building scalable companies in sectors where Dutch universities have strong research capabilities. She helped launch Graduate Entrepreneur as the first student board chair and has a background in business and management education from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management.