Quinten Selhorst
After graduating with two master degrees in The Netherlands & The UK, Quinten kicked off his professional career as a consultant. After spending 4.5 years in the space, he decided to follow his through passion by founding Felyx. As CEO and co-founder, he scaled the company towards 500 employees, raised EUR 80M, purchased a few companies for buy & build purposes after exiting the company in 2023. Already early in his career he was focusing heavily on making am (social-) impact and creating innovation with profitable business models and as such, Quinten was born as an entrepreneur.
As a result of the cutthroat dynamics in the micromobility space where felyx was active, Quinten has proven himself to be a strong operator who easily translates strategy into execution—enabling “smooth” operations while pushing growth into overdrive, all on the backbone of a strong tech and D&A stack. Both felyx and Quinten have been featured by leading industry experts like McKinsey, Google, Rocket Internet and Wired, named among the top ten most promising start-ups to watch, most talented entrepreneur of the Netherlands (Financieel Dagblad), most talented impact entrepreneur, and plenty of other fun—but mostly useless—badges =).
After exiting felyx, Quinten took the classic “founder-turned-investor” route—switching sides of the table and jumping into angel investing, leveraging both his experience and the international personal brand he’d built running a fast-scaling B2C company. After making a dozen (mostly US) angel investments, Quinten became a founding partner at Dutch Operator Fund, an angel syndicate structured as a fund, built to back (super) early-stage Dutch founders and keep the pay-it-forward cycle alive.
In september 2024 Quinten became a full time partner at EWOR. His decision to join was threefold:
- Quinten’s a firm believer that success breeds success. All partners at EWOR are exited founders with their own journeys and backgrounds, but share a very similar view on the core values, principles, and operating mechanisms required to build great ventures. At the earliest stages of company building, that lived experience matters most—you can shape the outcome and actually move the needle. That’s 100% aligned with how Quinten sees the game.
- EWOR plays the global game—both in terms of financial ambition and the people, networks, and founders we connect with. We believe human capital is unlimited and exists everywhere, no matter the geography. By bridging gaps between regions—and actually being willing to go the extra mile, partners included—you can build exceptional companies and generate truly exceptional alpha as an investor or LP.
- EWOR is a young company, so there’s a lot of venture-building happening internally—which scratches my itch as a builder.
Finally, as of mid-2025, Quinten is more broadly active in the private markets through his multi-family office, Endurance Capital Partners.
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