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VonWood operates a digital marketplace designed to streamline the global timber trade. The company provides a platform that directly connects sawmills with wood product users and contractors, facilitating transparent and efficient transactions. Its technology aims to modernize an historically fragmented industry by improving logistics, standardizing processes, and enhancing overall market access for buyers and sellers of timber.
The company was founded in 2022 by David de Jong and Minck Hermans. Their shared insight stemmed from recognizing significant inefficiencies and a lack of transparency within the traditional timber supply chain. They established VonWood in Amsterdam with the ambition to address these challenges through a technology-driven solution, leveraging their understanding of both the timber market and digital platforms.
VonWood serves a diverse customer base, including sawmills seeking broader reach and contractors or manufacturers requiring reliable and predictable timber sourcing. The company's vision is to foster a more intelligent, sustainable, and risk-averse timber industry by creating a direct bridge between supply and demand, ultimately driving efficiency and predictability across the entire value chain.
VonWood has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round.
VonWood has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
VonWood has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
VonWood's investors include Acton Capital Partners, Curiosity VC, Dutch Founders Fund, INKEF Capital, Partech Ventures, Peak.
VonWood is a Dutch technology startup founded in 2022 that builds a digital platform for timber trading, directly connecting buyers and sellers to modernize a fragmented, traditional industry.[1][2] It serves large-scale timber buyers like construction businesses and sellers such as sawmills, solving problems like supply chain opacity, quality uncertainty, production risks from mismatched demand, and intermediary markups by offering better prices, higher returns, secure supply, and transparency on wood origin, quality, and sustainability—including tree planting for every transaction.[1] The company raised €2.4 million (£2.4m) in pre-seed funding led by Peak Capital, Dutch Founders Fund, and Keen Venture Partners, marking it as the first Dutch pre-seed startup with three investors, with plans to accelerate platform growth.[1][2]
VonWood was founded in 2022 by David de Jong (CEO) and Minck Hermans, who identified inefficiencies in the ancient timber trade and set out to digitize it for greater accessibility and efficiency.[1] De Jong highlighted the industry's fragmentation, where buyers lack supply control—risking production halts—and sawmills guess at demand, leading to surpluses or shortages; their platform emerged to directly link supply and demand, cutting intermediaries.[1] Early traction came swiftly with the €2.4m funding round in 2022/2023 from Peak, Dutch Founders Fund, Keen, and strategic partners, validating their data-driven approach and positioning them to disrupt traditional chains.[1][2]
VonWood rides the wave of supply chain digitization and sustainable materials in construction, capitalizing on timber's rise as a low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete amid global net-zero pushes.[1] Timing aligns with post-pandemic supply disruptions and EU green regulations favoring traceable, eco-friendly resources, where fragmented analog trades are ripe for tech disruption.[1][3] Market forces like rising timber demand for modular building and scrutiny on deforestation favor its transparency tools, while its pre-seed momentum influences the Dutch startup ecosystem by proving viability in "old world" industries via VC-backed platform tech.[2]
VonWood is poised to scale its platform with fresh capital, targeting broader European adoption and deeper features like AI-driven demand forecasting or expanded sustainability metrics.[1][2] Trends in proptech, circular economies, and climate tech will propel it, potentially evolving into a full-stack timber ecosystem hub influencing global standards for digitized commodities.[3] As construction electrifies toward green materials, VonWood's intermediary-slaying model could redefine accessibility in one of Earth's oldest trades, delivering enduring supply chain impact.[1]
VonWood has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $3.0M Seed in January 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2023 | $3M Seed | — | Acton Capital Partners, Curiosity VC, Dutch Founders Fund, INKEF Capital, Partech Ventures, Peak | Announced |
