Dirk Van Quaquebeke — CEO

Dirk is a seasoned venture investor and company builder with a portfolio of >100 startups, bringing expertise in board room management, business model optimisation, strategy, corporate finance & fundraising, PMF/GTM fit, sales acceleration, recruiting, and scaling. He has partnered with several unicorn founders, completed IPOs & full acquisitions and helped businesses scale from zero to several hundred millions ARR as a founding investor. Currently, a day zero (2014) Managing Partner at BEENEXT, a Singapore based early-stage venture capital firm investing in India, Southeast Asia, Japan. Besides helping build the firm & its founder / LP community since its inception, his investment and board experience spans over >100 companies, including Amartha (partial exit), Roadzen (IPO), PropertyShare, Mekari (exit), Dekoruma (exit), FyleHQ (exit), Skuad (exit), PayStack (exit), Trusting Social, Lucidity, E6Data, Toddle (partial exit), M2P Fintech (partial exit), Lightmetrics, Coverself, RISE Telco, Open Bank, Koinex now Flobiz, Brankas, Netbank, Coins.ph (exit), Wallex (exit), FleetX, Cropin, Converj, Base.vn (exit), De-construct, Payglocal, SproutHR, Hive Health, Fitbudd, True Company, Animall, Grey Orange Robotics (angel), Tonik Bank (angel) and many more. Previously, he co-led the company builder Alps Ventures out of which more than a dozen incubations and investments were done. He started his career in London's private equity and investment banking world while following his passion of building digital companies during nights and weekends.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned venture capital expert with a focus on scaling tech startups.

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Experience: 19 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Venture Capital
Business Strategy
Corporate Finance
Company Building
Digital Entrepreneurship
Startup Building
Investment Management
Real Estate Investment
Global Asset Management

Career Highlights

Managed investments in over 100 startups.
Expert in scaling businesses to hundreds of millions ARR.
Led multiple successful IPOs and acquisitions.

Work Experience

BEENEXT PTE. LTD

Managing Partner (10 yrs 11 mos)

Alps Ventures Pte Ltd

Co Founder & Managing Partner (10 yrs 6 mos)

India Ventures Pte Ltd

Partner & Portfolio Founder (1 yr 6 mos)

Zouk Ventures ltd.

Investment Manager (1 yr 5 mos)

Moor Park Capital Partners LLP

Associate (1 yr)

Deutsche Bank London

Global Graduate Program (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

MSc. at Copenhagen Business School

Case guest lecturer at Harvard Business School

CEMS Master at Esade

BSc. at Stiftung Universität Hildesheim

Dirk Van Quaquebeke

CEO

Singapore, Singapore19 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Managed investments in over 100 startups.
Expert in scaling businesses to hundreds of millions ARR.
Led multiple successful IPOs and acquisitions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned venture capital expert with a focus on scaling tech startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalBusiness StrategyCorporate FinanceCompany BuildingDigital EntrepreneurshipStartup BuildingInvestment ManagementReal Estate InvestmentGlobal Asset Management

Other Skills

AcquisitionBoard ManagementBrand DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Model DesignBusiness Plan AssessmentCleantech InvestmentsCoworking Space ManagementDebt StructuringDiscretionary InvestingEntrepreneurshipEquity ResearchExecutive CoachingExit StrategyFinancial Modeling

About

Experience

Beenext pte. ltd

Managing Partner

Apr 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 11 mos · Singapore

Managing Partner at BEENEXT, a venture capital fund focused on investing early stage technology startups in India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and USA.
Currently, a day zero Managing Partner at BEENEXT, a Singapore based early-stage venture capital firm investing in India, Southeast Asia, Japan. Besides helping build the firm & its founder / LP community since its inception, Dirk's investment and board experience spans over >100 companies, including Amartha (partial exit), Roadzen (IPO), PropertyShare, Mekari (exit), Dekoruma (exit), FyleHQ (exit), Skuad (exit), PayStack (exit), Trusting Social, Lucidity, E6Data, Toddle (partial exit), M2P Fintech (partial exit), Lightmetrics, Coverself, RISE Telco, Open Bank, Koinex now Flobiz, Brankas, Netbank, Coins.ph (exit), Wallex (exit), FleetX, Cropin, Converj, Base.vn (exit), De-construct, Payglocal, SproutHR, Hive Health, Fitbudd, True Company, Animall, Grey Orange Robotics (angel), Tonik Bank (angel) and many more.

Venture CapitalInvestmentsBoard ManagementBusiness StrategyCorporate FinanceFundraising+3

Alps ventures pte ltd

Co Founder & Managing Partner

Sep 2011 – Mar 2022 · 10 yrs 6 mos

Co-founded a venture studio & holding company to catalyze digital entrepreneurship across Asia and Europe, investing our own time, capital, skills, and networks to build a new generation of digital ventures.
Over four active years, we launched or invested in over a dozen ventures—playing critical roles in assembling world-class teams, designing business models and organizational structures, driving fundraising and capital structuring, and executing digital blitzscaling strategies.
Directly and indirectly led teams of over 300 people across multiple geographies, acting as co-founder, board member, or managing director. Our portfolio spanned two categories: infrastructure ventures (services in real estate, talent, and digital marketing) and growth ventures (technology-driven startups).
Select Ventures:
Duriana – A mobile-first next-gen C2C marketplace. Acquired by Carousell.
Clusterhaus – Coworking space operator for startups. Winner of Manager Magazin’s “Best Managed Office” 2016. Exited to shareholder.
KochAbo – E-commerce meal kit delivery service. Acquired by Marley Spoon.
FALCON Agency – Digital marketing agency supporting in-house and external digital ventures.
Rubina – Talent agency focused on recruiting digital professionals for the portfolio and external clients.
PowerCigs / Lynden – The leading e-cigarette platform in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Zebramo – Turkey-based mobile C2C marketplace for secondhand goods.
Okiela – Last-mile logistics startup serving Vietnam’s e-commerce sector.

Company BuildingDigital EntrepreneurshipTeam LeadershipBusiness Model DesignFundraising

India ventures pte ltd

Partner & Portfolio Founder

Feb 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore and India

Co-founded and helped build brandmile.com (India) - http://bit.ly/2oRKb2U.

Brand DevelopmentStartup Building

Zouk ventures ltd.

Investment Manager

Sep 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Investing in smart grid, solar, water companies with focus cleantech. learned load about cleantech industry and players, business plan assessment in capital intensive industries, term sheets, long docs, valuation, cap tables, PE due dilligence, working with founders for longterm. Participated in 3 investments and one IPO preparation. 2x silent board member.

Investment ManagementCleantech InvestmentsBusiness Plan Assessment

Moor park capital partners llp

Associate

Aug 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom

Investing in $100-1bn real estate deals encompassing project finance, debt structuring and complex real estate portfolio turn arounds. We assessed >100 deals and did 2 with a combined value of EUR 2bn.

Real Estate InvestmentProject FinanceDebt Structuring