RDY Ventures

Alexandra Buekens is a fund-builder and leader who helped evolve a prior venture platform, is described by Belgian media as creating a Belgian Y Combinator, and holds statutory governance roles.

Justine Janssen combines founding Good Boost and a McKinsey background to bring founder perspective and structured problem‑solving to seed investing, while running high‑energy founder–investor networking and expanding European tech presence.

Carl Jacobs, co-founder and CEO of Apicbase and host of The Food Service Growth Show, combines operator experience and content-driven networks to give founders insight and targeted global restaurant connections.

Filip Smet, a serial tech founder who still runs Amotek, brings hands-on experience in data platforms and AI-enabled services to boards, writes personal checks (€5k–€500k), and mentors sustainability startups onstage.

Geert Houben is an operator-turned-investor who founded and runs Cubigo, bringing hands-on AgeTech expertise, a high-touch senior-care philosophy, and US–Europe regulatory and cultural experience.

Kristof Ampe is a part-time Venture Partner who combines selective investing with hands‑on operator experience, offering founders in the Belgian tech ecosystem targeted Benelux network access and focused on‑the‑ground support.

Peter Heinckiens combines deep enterprise-architecture experience as Chief Architect and Deputy GM of I/T Strategy at Toyota Motor Europe with authorship of a widely cited book on scalable database architecture.

Roeland Pelgrims combines active CEO leadership at Nobi with a venture partner role, bringing hands-on operational expertise in regulated hardware‑plus‑software elder-care solutions and deep knowledge of care‑home workflows and AIoT.

Tim Duhamel is a Venture Partner who brings specialized expertise and network access, operating quietly within his fund’s core investment network to support portfolio companies and fundraising.

Catalina Daniels is a Venture Partner at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York, where she supports early-stage and internationally expanding startups. She previously spent 17 years at McKinsey & Company advising on large-scale business transformations, followed by operational roles as CEO of a food startup and of the Special Olympics European Eurasian Games. Daniels serves as Investment Committee Member at RDY Ventures and Chair of Responsum, is co-author of Smart Startups published by HarperCollins in 2023, and is an angel investor.

Member of RDY's investment committee, affiliated with Volta Ventures.

Partner with more than 20 years of venture capital experience who joined Newion in 2005. Previously held roles at Van Lanschot as a business banker and corporate finance manager.