Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

• We invest in Celebrity-Product-Market-Fit
• HotStart VC is a fund that invests in celebrity-founded brands

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• HotStart Angels is an angel syndicate that invests in celebrity-founded brands.
• Individuals can invest with amounts as low as $5,000 per startup and decide per deal whether they want to participate or not

Jan 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Influencer Capital is nowadays part of the Cultured Group.
• Influencer Capital structures equity deals between startups and creators/celebrities. It allows startups to partner with the web's most recognizable faces without spending cash, while it allows creators/celebrities to earn equity in the companies they help grow and participate in the upside typically reserved for founders, investors, and employees.

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Global School for Entrepreneurship is a university where you can start and grow your business while getting your degree.

Jan 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Straise is an investment banking firm specializing in start-ups. We helped European start-ups to raise capital by helping them prepare the fundraising round, and bringing them in contact with interested investors.
• I left Straise to pursue my passion for investing in startups at Influencer Capital. Straise is rebranded to Everest Square Capital.

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos · San Francisco, Californië, Verenigde Staten

• I helped launch ScaleNL, an accelerator program for Dutch Tech entrepreneurs offering a fast track to the US, fuelled by an unparalleled network, a platform, programs and funding. ScaleNL is launched in partnership with the Dutch consulate.

Jun 2019 – Jan 2020 · 7 mos · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Hosted a podcast to help startups raise capital through a shark tank format.

Apr 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam en omgeving, Nederland

• Business Models Inc is an international design agency for strategy and innovation with offices in US, UK, Europe, Australia and Taiwan. We help organizations of all shapes and sizes to design better businesses. We design new products and services in co-creation and validate them with your clients. We apply design thinking for strategy and innovation in a systematic way, from idea generation to validation to execution in our innovation labs.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Amstelveen

• Coupie offered an innovative offline marketing channel for SMEs.

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• ABC Business Academy is a world-leading organization for entrepreneurial-based programs all over the world, with the intention of bringing together young and ambitious individuals with successful entrepreneurs.
• In the summer of 2018, I was a participant in the Toronto Business Academy. I won the business plan competition that was attended by 90+ international entrepreneurs. After the program, I became an ambassador and joined the Toronto Business Academy program in the summer of 2019 as a facilitator and business coach. During this program, I helped 40+ entrepreneurs develop their business ideas and write their business plan.