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Lander Degreve

Founder

Founder at Spott

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedSpott · YC

About

Lander Degreve is co-founder and CEO of Spott. He previously worked at Bain building an AI job matching tool, and studied financial statistics with a master's degree from Bocconi University, complemented by an internship in investment banking at JPMorgan.

Founder at SpottYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Lander went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Spott's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Lander can intro founders to Spott's investors below.

Spott's investors · 4

Base10 PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025Fortino CapitalAntwerp · $540K – $32.4M checks · since 2025True EquityYarmouth · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Spott

MVManu Vanderveeren
Manu VanderveerenFounder
SSSamuel Smeys
Samuel SmeysFounder

Experience

  1. Spott (YC W25)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco - Leuven - London
  2. Bain & CompanyConsultant2021 — 2024Brussels - Dubai
  3. J.P. MorganSummer Analyst2020London

Skills & more

Languages Dutch · English · French

From Lander's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Lander Degreve?
Lander Degreve is co-founder and CEO of Spott. He previously worked at Bain building an AI job matching tool, and studied financial statistics with a master's degree from Bocconi University, complemented by an internship in investment banking at JPMorgan.
Where does Lander Degreve work?
Lander Degreve is Founder of Spott.
What companies did Lander Degreve found?
Lander Degreve founded Spott.
Where did Lander Degreve go to school?
Lander Degreve studied at Y Combinator (Spott (YC W25)); Università Bocconi (MSc in Finance); KU Leuven (BSc in Business Engineering).

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