D2C portfolio
Private D2C
Three operator-led brands, private by design.
Names unreleasedIndependent brand group · Amsterdam to the world
A Rare Kind
of Brands.
We build and operate brands — and help serious founders build theirs. D2C, software and new ideas, connected by one standard.
The group
We build from the inside.
Then share what works.
ARKO is the home behind our D2C brands, software companies and new ideas. The same operating experience powers our advisory, partner stores and upcoming community.
- Public ventures
- 02
- Private D2C brands
- 03
- Operator reach
- Worldwide
Our ventures
Built to compound.
Public ventures, plus a private D2C portfolio. We show what is useful — not everything we own.
Results · with context
Receipts over
rhetoric.
We publish the numbers we can stand behind, keep the context attached and leave private performance private.
Founder-operated scaleLifetime · directional
~8F
Lifetime revenue approaching eight figures across multiple founder-operated ventures.
Revenue, not profitMultiple venturesNot consolidated
Portfolio mixCurrent disclosed scope
5ventures
- Public ventures
- 2
- Private D2C
- 3
Public receipts3source-linked snapshots
Public ventures2RunCadre + Kwikflow
Private D2C3operator-led brands
Operating reachGlobalEurope to worldwide
The public track record
Three moments.
One operator journey.
Different moments and scopes, preserved separately. Each figure links back to the public conversation or post where it appeared.
Age 20 · Interview
$613K/ month
Monthly e-commerce revenue discussed in a long-form conversation with Glenn Nieuwenhuis.
Watch the interview ↗Age 21 · Podcast
€850K/ month
Monthly e-commerce revenue discussed on the Wat Doe Jij Voor Werk? podcast.
Watch the podcast ↗2025 · Instagram recap
$1.946M/ 365 days
Trailing sales snapshot from a business operated by Zion, shared in his public year recap.
View the post ↗All figures shown are revenue, not profit. The approaching-eight-figures statement is a directional lifetime estimate across founder-operated ventures. Public snapshots cover different businesses, currencies, periods and scopes; they are not additive, audited consolidated ARKO revenue, current performance or a guarantee of future results.
Follow the live journey ↗Work with ARKO
Choose the way
we build together.
Access our experience, operate a proven concept in your market, bring ARKO into your brand or join the room where the next generation of operators connects.
Direct access
Advisory calls
Focused consultancy on positioning, performance, creative, systems and scale.
Local ownership
Partner stores
We bring the growth engine, media buying and front-end. The local partner owns the execution and daily work.
Operator network
Community
A private place for like-minded, hungry operators who want to grow to the next level together.
The story behind ARKO
Two paths.
One build.
ARKO did not begin as a holding company on paper. It grew from two friends who kept showing up, kept learning and eventually decided to build under one name.
Our story
What started as friendship became an operating partnership.
Zion and Jordy met through mutual friends after both had already chosen the harder route: doing the work themselves. The conversations became late nights, the late nights became companies and the companies became ARKO.
- Separate starts
Two young operators learning e-commerce from the inside, each building proof before attention.
- The meeting
A friendship formed through mutual friends — grounded in the same pace, standards and ambition.
- Side by side
They kept working together through launches, record days, setbacks and the long nights behind every visible win.
- One group
ARKO became the shared home for the brands, systems and ideas they wanted to build for the long term.
Co-Founder · Brand & Growth
Zion Fajemilugba
Zion learned e-commerce the only way that ever made sense to him: by taking responsibility for the outcome. The beginning was not polished. It was testing products, making mistakes, finding the first winners and learning how product, creative, acquisition, margin and customer experience have to move together.
The operations grew into multiple brands and public milestones — from discussing $613K in monthly e-commerce revenue at twenty to €850K at twenty-one. His public 2025 recap later showed a $1,946,718 trailing 365-day sales snapshot from a business he operated.
But the numbers exposed the next problem too: growth becomes fragile when every decision and repeated task depends on more people, more tools and more handoffs. That experience pushed Zion from products into systems, AI operations and the group that now connects the work.
Co-Founder · Brand & Operations
Jordy Versteegen
Jordy’s story starts with work. Long before ARKO, he was already the person who kept going after the excitement disappeared. He entered e-commerce with his first coach, applied what he learned and stayed close to the work until the first profits proved that the model could become something real.
When Jordy and Zion met through mutual friends, the fit was immediate. They did not need to manufacture a partnership; they simply kept working together. First as friends comparing notes, then as operators sharing decisions, pressure and increasingly ambitious companies.
Jordy brings something rare to the group: the patience to make execution consistent and an exceptional instinct for brand. The restraint, detail and feeling that make ARKO’s companies look unmistakably their own carry his fingerprint.
@jordyverstegen
The eye behind the brand.
Serious founders, operators and partners
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worth building?
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