Schouten Investments
Amsterdam single family office of the Schouten family (founder Maasbert Schouten), investing mainly via lower mid-market PE funds plus co-investments and search funds.
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Family & background
- FAMILY
- Schouten
- WEALTH ORIGIN
- Entrepreneurship, incl. founding AFAB Holding (consumer loans and mortgages) and buying and selling football club Vitesse
- HEADQUARTERS
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- OFFICES
- Breda, Netherlands (registered office)
- FOUNDED
- 2001
- OUTSIDE CAPITAL
- No — own capital only
Investment approach
- GEOGRAPHY
- NetherlandsEuropeUnited Kingdom
- STAGES
- Series AGrowthBuyout
- ROUTES
- Companies (own capital) · Funds (as LP)
- STRATEGIES
- Funds (as LP)Private equityVenture capitalDirect investments
- LATEST DEAL
- FundScope (majority stake) · Nov 2025
Overview
Schouten Investments B.V. calls itself the single family office of the Schouten family, founded by Maasbert Schouten, with two generations active. It invests mainly indirectly through private equity funds focused on the European lower mid-market, especially the Netherlands, and also makes direct investments, co-investments and, since 2025-2026, search fund (ETA) investments. Its portfolio page lists about 100 fund commitments and dozens of company co-investments; in 2025 it took a majority stake in FundScope and a substantial stake in fund-of-funds manager Two Rivers Capital. The legal entity is registered in Breda (GLEIF); the office is in Amsterdam.
Investment thesis
Direct and indirect private investments in the European lower mid-market, with a strong focus on Netherlands-structured funds; core focus on buy-out private equity, plus growth-stage venture, co-investments and search funds; largely sector-agnostic with affinity for SaaS, technology, wholesale, e-commerce, healthcare and business services.
Holdings & investments (53)
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- Consumer & E-commerce · since 2026
- since 2026
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2026
- HealthTech · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- HealthTech · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- Software & SaaS · since 2026
- since 2026
- since 2026
- since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- since 2025
- since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- since 2025
- Software & SaaS · since 2025
- Consumer & E-commerce · since 2024
- Consumer & E-commerce · since 2024
- HealthTech · since 2024
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2024
- Software & SaaS · since 2024
- Consumer & E-commerce · since 2024
- Software & SaaS · since 2024
- since 2023
- since 2023
- Software & SaaS · since 2023
- Software & SaaS · since 2023
- Software & SaaS · since 2022
- Software & SaaS · since 2022
- Software & SaaS · since 2022
- Software & SaaS · since 2022
- Software & SaaS · since 2022
- Software & SaaS · since 2021
- Software & SaaS · since 2020
- since 2020
- since 2020
- HealthTech · since 2020
- Software & SaaS · since 2019
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2017
- Industrial & Manufacturing · since 2017
- since 2011
- since 2011
- Software & SaaS
People
Frequently asked questions
Schouten Investments is a single family office based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, founded in 2001.
Schouten Investments invests on behalf of the Schouten family (Entrepreneurship, incl. founding AFAB Holding (consumer loans and mortgages) and buying and selling football club Vitesse).
Schouten Investments invests its own capital into companies and in third-party funds as an LP. Its stated asset mix includes funds (as lp), private equity, venture capital and direct investments.
Schouten Investments invests at Series A, Growth and Buyout stages in Software & SaaS, HealthTech, Consumer & E-commerce and Industrial & Manufacturing.
Key people at Schouten Investments include Maasbert Schouten (CEO / Founder), Amber Schouten (Partner), Quint Schouten (Partner) and Jort Schouten (Partner).
Schouten Investments's holdings and investments include , , , , , , and , among others.
The most recent publicly reported investment by Schouten Investments is FundScope (majority stake), announced in Nov 2025.
No. Schouten Investments invests its own capital and does not raise money from outside investors.