Long term
Positions and companies are built to be kept. Decisions are weighed over years rather than quarters, which rules out most of what looks urgent.
Investing · Building · Holding
Untapd
Untapd is the home base for the activities of Dolf Hendrikx — investor and operator. Not an agency and not a service on demand, but a small number of ventures that are built, funded and held for the long term.
Principles
How capital is put to work
The subjects differ, the approach does not. Three principles carry through everything.
Discipline
Being selective about what gets taken on. A clear, repeatable approach beats making more moves — better decisions, not more of them.
Transparency
Choices have to stay explainable, including when things go against you. Setting clear expectations is part of the work, not an afterthought.
Holding 01 · The fund
Mind over Matter
A proprietary fund domiciled on the Isle of Man. The strategy is built on value investing: disciplined analysis, selective execution and consistent optimisation.
The starting point is capital preservation. Downside risk is understood first and only then is capital allocated. The mandate over the cycle is anchored at 10%+ as a compounding benchmark within guarded risk limits — a compass rather than a promise, and never a reason to take on extra risk. In practice the fund has run well ahead of that anchor.
- Capital preservation — protecting the starting capital comes before return.
- Discipline — better positions with a clear rationale, not more transactions.
- Transparency — explainable choices and clear communication toward investors.
Holding 02 · Product ventures
Production Heroes
Production Heroes takes physical products from first idea to scalable manufacturing. The premise: turning ideas into bestsellers.
The company works through a network of trusted factories in Europe and Asia without owning any of them. That makes it possible to match each product to the right manufacturing partner while keeping design, quality control and logistics in one line.
- 01 Concept & design — from idea to a production-ready design.
- 02 Prototype & tooling — testing, refining and preparing for production.
- 03 Manufacturing & assembly — reliable production through the network.
- 04 Supply chain & scaling — built for growth and continuity.
Behind Untapd
Dolf Hendrikx
Investor and entrepreneur, with a background in business processes, systems and automation. Untapd started there in 2016 and grew into the umbrella under which the current holdings are built and managed.
The through-line across both ventures is the same: reduce a problem to its core, put a workable structure around it, then execute that structure consistently. At Production Heroes that means products which can actually be manufactured and sold. At Mind over Matter it means deploying capital inside clearly defined risk limits.
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