Freshstream
Kees de Jong is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience in various ventures focusing on growth and development in the SME sector. As a co-founder and board member of nlgroeit since 2015, Kees de Jong has been instrumental in facilitating SME growth in the Netherlands. Additionally, roles include investor at Doorb, chairman of the advisory group at Bregal Freshstream, and owner of BBI bv, where Kees de Jong functions as an entrepreneur, mentor, and writer. Kees de Jong co-founded ScaleUp Company, which aids entrepreneurs in scaling their businesses, and participates as an investor in Equidam and a board member of NLevator, aiming to enhance the ecosystem for impactful companies. Further contributions include co-founding Blauw Research, a leading research agency in the Netherlands, and serving on the advisory board of the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. Academic credentials include a degree in Business Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and executive programs at Harvard Business School and MIT.
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Freshstream
Freshstream was launched in September 2015. The firm is focused on mid-market investments and looks to invest between €30m and €100m of equity per investment in growth businesses across a wide variety of sectors, with a particular geographic focus on the UK and Benelux markets. Freshstream seeks to acquire majority equity stakes in the companies in which it invests, although it also has the flexibility to invest across their entire capital structures, including in debt and debt-like instruments. Freshstream is focused principally on relationship based, bilateral transactions, being comfortable with highly complicated situations and taking a generally conservative approach to leverage. Although the business is sector-agnostic, looking at each potential investment on its merits, the team has significant prior experience in industries such as healthcare, general manufacturing, financial services, aerospace, branded retail, chemicals, building products and TMT.