we are your hands-on Venture partner: OFFERING access to our network of venture building experts across the globe

Let’s have a call, and talk about your organizations challenges, priorities and how to set you up for success. Let’s see what expertise you need & what plan best fits your needs. We help by providing operational & strategic advisory, interim management, headhunting, and capital matchmaking services for scale-ups & investors in several ways. We work with high-level interim managers & frameworks, or connect you to full time talent from our network. Please find more details below of how we can help, plus more info on contracts, service fees. Bespoke setups can always be discussed.

OUR PLANS in full detail

ACCESS

Commercial ADVISORY PER HOUR

Flexible subscription with weekly calls, meetings or work per hour

  • Your part-time commercial sparring partner and representative

  • Strategic & operational

  • One-off or on a retainer basis

  • Incl. support with hiring & network

  • Remote via Zoom or on location upon request

  • Flexible subscription, fixed price

  • Budget option;) 

  • €250/hour, min. €1950 per month
    (Discuss price? Let’s talk equity, duration, location)

  • Example clients: WE.VESTR, DailyChef, Boon & Bliss, A lot of Magic

PRO

Head of sales & Expansion for a day / Commercial Due diligence

Flexible subscription of 1 day weekly + ongoing support access

  • We will go through all your organizations commercial challenges, tune your plan & implement this (together).

  • Strategic & operational

  • Ongoing access to advisory & answers via mail

  • One-off or on a retainer basis

  • Incl. support with hiring & network

  • On location or remote via Zoom

  • Flexible subscription, fixed price. Great value for money! 

  • €1450/day one-off or €1250/day for subscription of min. 3 days
    (Discuss price? Let’s talk equity, duration, location)

  • Or do a Commercial Due Diligence starting at €2950

  • Example clients: Viaplay, ExperienceGift, Pickler

ALL IN

FREELANCE EXECUTIVE or INTERIM MANAGEMENT

Need a fully committed Commercial Exec at your management table, 3 or 4 days per week (up to 32 hours per week)? Or need an interim GM or MD? Ready to start tomorrow!

Or did you just raised money, and your sales team needs restructuring? Your current sales results are not good enough? We fill in the sales leadership role on the interim, while you are hiring. This way avoiding the costly hiring & performance gap and not lose valuable time in scaling up your commercial efforts or expansion plans, while you are on the lookout for the perfect hire.

  • In a commercial leadership role as CCO / CRO / VP / Head of Sales, Business Development, Partnerships, Expansion. A full member of your (executive) team.

  • Or as Interim General Manager or Country Manager.

  • All services included - Fully operational on freelance basis for as long as needed.

  • Fractional or full-time.

  • Usually 3/4 days per week, up to 32 hours per week. Min. 3 months. Monthly cancelable contract.

  • The full package!

  • €950 - €1250 per day (Discuss price? Let’s talk equity, duration, location)

  • Example clients: Qogita, Viaplay, Otovo, Otrium, 2Solar, Cerve

OuTBOUND SALes-as-a-Service

Outsource your outbound, Filling up your sales funnel with meetings & Deals

We will open doors for your company, as a Sales Development Representative, or let us take further responsibility of the funnel as Account Executive or Business Development Manager for hire.

  • Let us take care of your sales funnel, from lead gen to prospecting, and from first meeting to closing. Or only a part of the sales cycle.

  • Part-time or full-time. Work with our senior experts or with more junior talent.

  • Fixed fee per meeting, no-cure-no-pay on closed deal, fixed day fee or a hybrid structure. Let’s discuss what fit’s best.

  • Example clients: Elyn, Kanpla

HEADHUNTING

ACCURATE Hiring SUPPORT & EXPERTISE

So far, we have supported in hiring +50 talents for our clients Otovo, Delivery Hero, Otrium, Urban Sports Club & OneFit, amongst others. Use our expertise in hiring your team or executive. Or work via our hiring partners. We work in 2 ways:

  • 1. Headhunting: via Vondel’s large network, super personal, discrete and no-cure no-pay for companies. We charge only 15% commission*, (instead of the 20-25% + fees that normal recruiters or headhunters ask). We offer people in our Vondel Headhunting Talent Pool special advisory on career growth, HR issues, negotiation, contractual/legal topics to support them on their journey. Also we organize (digital) events & co-working possibilities to further inspire, support and harness our community of top performers.

    2. Job board: Posting and promoting jobs & candidates. We focus on startup & VC/PE roles in: business development, sales, venture development, expansion, growth marketing, legal, finance & investments, data & AI, and product & tech.

    Candidates for senior roles must have a background in either the startup space/VC, investment banking/PE or consulting.

  • Promotion on Vondel.co, Linkedin (7K followers), Instagram (2.5K followers)

  • *Included in our standard interim consulting packages - so this pricing is only for stand alone hiring projects)

  • Example clients: Qogita, Pickler, OneFit, Urban Sports Club, Otovo, Otrium, 2solar, Unveil, and many others (discretely)

FrACTIONAL EXPERT Community

independent venture development consultants

We have built and are constantly expanding our Vondel Community. A selected group of powerful independent venture development consultants that will step in and force growth of your company. Currently nearly 100 members.

  • Work with one individual or hire your complete Special Forces team for Scaling up!

  • Everyone with their own expertise (commercial, expansion, sales, data, marketing, legal, finance, hiring, general management, SDR, etc.)

  • International coverage & experience

  • Curated by us

  • Freelance / Interim / Fractional / Advisory / Support

  • Hire them via us or do business directly with them

CAPITAL

Support with Capital placement & fundraising via warm intros to investors

We screen your startup or fund and connect you to relevant investors, angels, VCs, so you sit front row and close faster and on better terms.

  • Intros between investors.

  • We screen your startup or investment proposal and provide direct access to relevant VCs, LPs, (Angel) Investors, so you sit front row and close rounds faster and on better terms.

  • Benefit from our local network & experience in screening startup investment opportunities and tune your deck.

  • Example clients: Coalition VC, Curiosity VC, Voja.ai, Unveil, Boon & Bliss, Forward.one

VC BD PARTNER

REPRESENTING YOUR VC FIRM IN LOCAL MARKETS

Helping with local business development, sourcing, scouting. Flexible subscription with weekly calls, meetings, networking events or work per hour

  • Your local boots on the ground and eye on the market! BD, sourcing, scouting

  • Strategic & operational

  • Incl. support with hiring & network

  • Remote via Zoom or on location upon request

  • Flexible subscription, fixed price

  • €250/hour, min. €2950 per month

  • Kick-back for bringing in deal flow, in cash or equity

OTHER

Or use our other services such as:

  • Connector - intro’s, referrals, opening doors

  • Co-founder - let’s discuss

  • Investor - via Stuyver Capital

  • Partners - tech ecosystem partner

Our IN-HOUSE COmmercial scaling expertise covers the following subjects

  • Expansion: go to market, roadmap, playbook

  • Sales: sales (team), account management, business development, growth, network, partnerships, connecting, deals

  • Hiring & HR: headhunting, talent acquisition, systems, organizational structure

  • Tools: CRM, presentations, contracts, meeting prep, etc.

  • Processes: prospecting, funnel dynamics, sales cycle

  • Data: sales performance insights, dashboards

  • Team: onboarding, internal team meetings (weekly, monthly, town halls, kick-offs), 1-1s, training, compensation, etc.

  • Other: zoom in on specific subjects you need support on (VC, M&A, marketing, ops, customer service, finance, legal, product/tech etc).

Contracts

Based on availability, we can work short-term or long-term via a consulting contract / service agreement / engagement letter / statement of work. Here we will outline:

  • Parties

  • Agreement

  • The project overview

  • The services

  • Our staffing

  • Your contact

  • Timetable

  • Your responsibilities

  • Fees & assumptions

  • Other specific terms & conditions

Service FeeS

Between €2-20K + preferably equity, per month, depending on plan or framework.

We work with a fixed fee, per project, session, day or month. One-off or retainer. Cash or cash + equity. Our preference is always to get paid part in equity as this rewards performance and long term collaboration the best possible way. Also in certain projects we charge a commission or kick-back fee. Also we offer partner deals for collaborations, based on commissions and/or fixed fee. In some other cases we are open to directly invest ourselves. Let’s talk about what works best for you.

We will invoice the above services in one or more installments after commencement of the work, no more frequently than on a monthly base.