About This Fund
6DC III is the third closed-end fund of 6 Degrees Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in London and Antwerp founded in 2023. Led by Managing Partner Wouter Volckaert alongside Partners Thibault D'hondt and Lucas Stoops, 6 Degrees Capital has built a reputation for conviction-led underwriting of unconventional founding teams building category-defining companies. The fund reached a final close at €154 million in November 2025, meeting its stated hard cap and attracting backing from a pan-European LP base comprising fund-of-funds, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Across its three fund vintages, 6 Degrees Capital has partnered with over 70 companies.
6DC III pursues seed and Series A investments across three core verticals: enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and fintech. The fund is designed to lead investment rounds with initial tickets ranging from €1 million to €5 million, with follow-on reserves of up to €15 million per portfolio company. 6 Degrees Capital's investment philosophy centres on backing founders who possess genuine insights that are non-obvious to the broader market, prioritising intellectual depth and product resilience over conventional traction metrics at the earliest stages. The fund's geographic mandate spans the European startup ecosystem, with the London and Belgian markets as core sourcing bases.
Since its first close, 6DC III has deployed capital into an initial cohort of portfolio companies including Conveo, FlatPeak, Spruce, Luca, and Artificial, establishing a track record consistent with the fund's seed-stage mandate. 6 Degrees Capital's earlier funds produced investments spanning fintech infrastructure, AI tooling, and enterprise platforms, and the team brings operational expertise in early-stage company building alongside capital. The firm's position as a conviction-led lead investor across Europe positions 6DC III to back the next generation of category-defining businesses emerging from the continent's increasingly mature startup ecosystem.