BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital (BU), a mid-cap investor headquartered in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), has entered into the Dutch market with the opening of an office in Amsterdam, and appointed Willem van der Veer as partner and head of Benelux.
This builds on 12 completed investments in the Netherlands, most recently SnelStart, a provider of accounting and financial management software for SMEs. The firm says it has plans to scale further by adding investment professionals as regional opportunities grow.
Van der Veer brings over a decade of private equity experience investing in mid-sized businesses and scalable, tech-enabled models. He began his career at Gupta Strategists before moving into private equity at Volpi Capital in London.
Since 2019, he has been part of the Dutch team at Avedon Capital Partners, where he led origination and portfolio initiatives across multiple sectors and executed investments in technology and business services.
